Japan
Russia’s Tsushima moment
Campaign Diary: Putin’s regime is suffering from an old problem — imperial overreach
Japan v China — the history of a rivalry
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the centuries-old military rivalry between China and Japan
Pandemic Olympiad
The Tokyo games will be an uncomfortable charade
A fanatic heart
On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima
The man who restored Japan
Shinzo Abe has led Japan to overcome its war guilt and emerge as a major global power
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile