China
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
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 US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Bar none
The fraud behind the Bar Standards Board’s “equality and diversity” drive
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
