Asia
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
After the shock
Myanmar is being failed by its leaders
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Sinicizing the CCP
Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius
In search of the lost “Greek” tribe of Alexander the Great
A trek through the Hindu Kush to seek out the ancient Kalash people, who claim descent from Alexander’s army
Seven years in China
COVID, nationalism and Beijing walls
A leader who loved Japan
How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation
Most Read
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
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski