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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
