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
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
