Charles Parton
Engineering the soul of China
Xi’s revolution in values and education is a tool for totalitarianism
Suffering from chronic repression
Fears of a new Cultural Revolution are beginning to look justified as Xi Jinping advances the pace of control in China
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse
“Data, like the jungle, is neutral. But its users are not.”
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts