Nations
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Can the West live without China?
Graham Stewart asks Stewart Paterson whether disengagement from China is an act of self-harm or a sensible stitch in time
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated