Chinese Communist Party
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Deeply erudite yet highly readable, laying many myths to rest
Seven years in China
COVID, nationalism and Beijing walls
Resurrect forgiveness
China’s surprising take on a celebrated parable reveals a growing global problem
In China’s pocket
Tech UK is taking money from CCP-influenced tech giants to lobby UK politicians
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan