UK-China Relations
An anaconda in the chandelier?
Benedict Rogers’ new book maps the vast network of repression propped up by China’s regime
Loyalty for sale
RAF veterans compromised British ideals by assisting the Chinese
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
Downsizing China?
Can Britain choose its partners in the new Great Power Rivalry?
The small matter of Britain’s interest in China
To many Britons, China is a large country, far away
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Sexy simplicity
For February, try a palette cleanse
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
