International Relations
Something in the way Xi moves
We should engage the CCP instead of being intimidated
An anaconda in the chandelier?
Benedict Rogers’ new book maps the vast network of repression propped up by China’s regime
Hope for peace in Ukraine
We should all welcome the chance for serious talks
Has the media forgotten Iran?
Brave protesters are still fighting for their freedoms
Close the Confucius Institutes
Britain should not be enabling Chinese soft power
Armenia’s lonely plight
Why don’t we care?
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely
Right requires Might
Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards