12/27/2019 - 12:30am

2019: the year the West wised up to China Xi Jinping is not leading the nation on a path of slow evolution towards liberal democracy

John Gray

25.12

2016: the Great Pivot Year Our correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axis

David Goodhart

24.12

How Africa is converting China China's mass investment in Africa is having an unintended religious consequence at home

Christopher Rhodes

11.12

How China has enabled the Rohingya atrocity The liberal West is out of tools when it comes to dealing with authoritarian governments

Bill Hayton

04.12

How Global English became a source of division The international language increasingly divides the Somewheres and Anywheres of the world

Ben Sixsmith

07.11

Ban the bomb? The world’s moved on, Mr Gorbachev The former Soviet leader is decades out of date about the real threats to world peace

Mary Dejevsky

21.10

Harry Potter and the importance of soft power Storytelling has been central to national identity since the tales of King Arthur, but Rowling has arguably put more cash into the British treasury than anyone in history

Ed West

07.10

How the West is winning Chinese talent Since the world's most talented individuals can work anywhere they like, Brexit Britain must strive to attract them

Peter Franklin

01.10

Why the UK can’t walk away from Hong Kong The former colonial power has a legal and moral responsibility to help bring about a solution to the crisis

Evan Fowler

17.09

We aren’t getting the best from our brains What would be madness in healthcare is standard practice in education.

Peter Franklin

23.08

Capitalism needs more heroes Corporate leaders should put their money where their mouth is

Ian Birrell

30.07

How Trump makes suckers of the libs

Justin Webb