Mao Zedong
The long shadow of the Great Helmsman
Frank Dikötter’s China is perpetually over-leveraged, over-producing and overdue a bust
The masses might stone you
My time as the first foreign broadcaster accredited to Mao’s China
We are all Maoists now
For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing
China travels and travails
Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
