China
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 courage to defeat Evil
Why are people fighting a long-dead slave trade rather than resisting the triumph of a real one?
China’s Long March
How should the UK and its allies treat the rise of China?
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
