Timothy Cho
Timothy Cho is the North Korea spokesperson for the UK and Ireland branch of the international charity Open Doors. He lived on the streets in North Korea and was imprisoned on four occasions, finally escaping across the border to China. He tweets @timothycho08
Another day I would have died
How I watched James Bond in North Korea and lived to tell the tale
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
