China
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
The worm in tech
Technology can magnify the effects of human evil
New beginnings, old problems
How did geopolitics evolve in the aftermath of World War Two?
The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
