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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
