South Africa
Year’s mind: James Small and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
ASH Smyth reflects on South Africa’s historic 1995 Rugby World Cup win
Greatest team we never saw
The controversial South African cricket tour of 1970
A light in the darkness
A pioneering school ofers a new vision for South Africa’s failing education system
Armin Laschet, Germany’s next Chancellor: Pro-China, Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad?
As China rises and Russia rattles its sabre, the Germans will hope that the younger generation have as much ease learning Mandarin as Merkel’s generation did English
Is the delicensing of CGTN a good thing?
Even though the Chinese English-language news channel can be pretty poisonous, Andrew Tettenborn questions whether it should be banned
Are Brexiteer MPs happy?
Somebody is being played for a fool and the ERG are starting to think it isn’t Brussels
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
The time of my life
Dominic Hilton explains why time itself has become his biggest enemy
Putting a price on scholarship
Charles Saumarez Smith on the battle to safeguard the future of some of Britain’s oldest and best-known learned societies
Another nice mess you’ve gotten me into?
David Frost’s reward is to inherit Michael Gove’s problems
Why the ‘100,000 deaths’ figure is misleading the public
News outlets should report the age-standardised mortality rates alongside the number of excess deaths so as not to mislead the public
Freedom of speech awakens?
Good news from court, but the fact that it got this far shows it’s an uphill struggle for freedom of speech
What Boris Johnson told the ’22
Digs at Nicola Sturgeon and an end to lockdown “before the tulip season is over”