Elbridge A. Colby
The rise and fall of the China Question
Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
Talk of conscription is pure fantasy politics
We do not have the forces, the seriousness or the need for a major ground war
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
