Global Politics
The wokeness of soft power
The content of the Global Soft Power Summit 2021 shows that progressives have turned a vague concept into another divisive label
Is China heading for global empire or Soviet collapse?
Dan Blumenthal’s new book wants us to be pessimistic, realistic, and proactive
How the Genocide Convention hinders rather than helps victims
The stringent legal definition of genocide means that those who are targeted receive no support or justice
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
China, America and the Kindleberger Trap
China is filling the void of retreating American influence
The world leaders who battled coronavirus and won
How is it that our most eccentric world leaders have been the ones disproportionately affected by Covid-19?
Why are our leaders so useless?
We look in vain for direction or hope from the leaders of tomorrow
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia
Farewell to Utopia
An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics
Big Brother versus liberty
Firmin DeBrabander’s philosophical musings are the checklist of a left-wing, “progressive” academic
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
