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The first arrest was a man clutching a black flag inscribed with the words ‘Hong Kong Independence’ in both English and Chinese. By the time dusk fell over the skyscrapers and ferries of one of the world’s great cities, another nine protesters —including a 15-year-old girl and a woman with a sign featuring the British … Read more
How To Feed A Dictator Witold Szablowski Penguin £14.99 Rating: Here’s a dish you won’t find on daytime telly: Whole Roasted Goat. I’ll let the chef himself tell you the recipe: ‘We’d remove its innards, cut off its beard, stuff it with rice, potatoes, carrots, parsley, peas and some herbs and spices – naturally, all … Read more
It was Vladimir Lenin – one of Xi Jinping’s favourite philosophers – who famously said capitalists would end up selling the very rope the communists would use to hang them. And for once, the Russian revolutionary is exactly right. We’re lucky to live in a country known for fairness and the rule of law. Our judicial … Read more
Iain Duncan Smith Covid-19 has swept across the world like a medieval plague from China and in its wake it has created one of the greatest health scares in modern history. This has resulted in the implementation of sweeping powers to alter and direct the balance of our way of life, last seen on this … Read more
The threat will have chilled Europe’s leaders to the bone. Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that his country would no longer enforce the deal struck with the EU in 2016 to prevent millions of Syrian and other refugees who have poured into his country from leaving for Western shores. ‘The doors are now … Read more