Beijing sees AI as the foundation of a new industrial age
Just as Britain’s steam engines were bound into networks, China is building the infrastructure to let AI expand
Shipbuilding and Space are a British success story
How to buck the national trend of failure
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
The death of western cosmopolitanism
A global pandemic has shown how beneficial it is to have a strong nation state
China, America and the Kindleberger Trap
China is filling the void of retreating American influence
The ties that bind
Political unions are not determined by economic realities
Leaving Hong Kong – will China’s loss be Britain’s gain?
It’s Hong Kong’s middle class – not the hyper-wealthy – who may leave. But Britain may not be their preferred option.
Reconsidering the case for ID cards
If tracking Covid-19 requires “immunity passports” then why not as part of an ID card?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then