Antony Blinken
China: The rules of engagement
How should America deal with a newly aggressive and expansionist Beijing?
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
