China
The people sing
The Chinese have had enough of lockdowns
Close the Confucius Institutes
Britain should not be enabling Chinese soft power
The long shadow of the Great Helmsman
Frank Dikötter’s China is perpetually over-leveraged, over-producing and overdue a bust
So long to the capitalist peace
The Big Mac has not consigned conflict to history
The technological escalation
Will the US semiconductor strategy prevail against China?
Our revels are now ended
The unavoidable tide of demographics and globalisation will bring an end to the long economic boom
Sinicizing the CCP
Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius
Seven years in China
COVID, nationalism and Beijing walls
America is divided on Taiwan
That might be a good thing
And never the twain shall meet?
A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
