China
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough