China
Are British universities unwittingly arming China?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion talk to Radomir Tylecote about how British universities are cooperating with organisations linked to the Chinese military
Is the delicensing of CGTN a good thing?
Even though the Chinese English-language news channel can be pretty poisonous, Andrew Tettenborn questions whether it should be banned
We are all Maoists now
For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing
Bad law in a good cause
Who should determine Britain is trading with a genocidal regime – international judges? British judges? Or the British government?
China’s long march towards global hegemony continues
Unfortunately for Britain, those things which might be hoped to constrain a budding imperial power do not hold China back
Vince Cable’s troubling views on China
Why is Cable so keen to deny the vast ethnic prejudices of the Chinese regime?
Is this the end of Western liberal democracy?
We need to appreciate the inherent messiness that permeates Western societies, rather than seeking to repudiate it
China, America and the Kindleberger Trap
China is filling the void of retreating American influence
Are American universities under foreign control?
Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities
Power plays
The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
