China
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Reject Naominomics
Ideas like Naomi Klein’s are bad for the economy (and for the environment)
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
The multi-matrixed revolutions
Predictions of a new Cold War understate the complexity of the future
Xi bangs the drum
On geopolitics with Chinese characteristics
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
