Iain Duncan Smith
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
When does protest become intimidation?
Speech, in public, must have limits
IDS – I nearly walked out on Xi Jinping’s address to parliament
Duncan Smith sees TPP membership as a means of securing an Anglo-American counterbalance to China in Asia-Pacific
Bad law in a good cause
Who should determine Britain is trading with a genocidal regime – international judges? British judges? Or the British government?
Knights to remember
This must not be read within 2 metres of another sketch, unless you are in a bubble with John Crace
The Coronavirus rebels in full
Backbenchers in the Tory party are gradually turning their private frustrations into rebel votes
IDS: challenges to Huawei’s leeway “in play”
The former Conservative leader gives a damning assessment of the lack of strategic analysis of Chinese methods
Is it really game over for Huawei?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Graham Stewart discuss how Britain can pivot away from China
The Huawei rebels are still up for a fight
Many Tory MPs think the U-turn on Huawei does not go far enough
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Graham Topman: festival organiser
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for another festival of arts, ideas and Graham (mostly Graham)
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
The future is blue
With Corbynite leadership and conservative members, Unite embodies Labour’s identity crisis
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
