Beijing
July 2021: Letters to the Editor
Peter Hitchens says the West was bullied into using the name “Beijing” instead of “Peking”
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Godfather of British geopolitics
The revolutionary global thinking of an Edwardian academic continues to shape attitudes today
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
