Jonathan Mirsky
Barmy Weather
Flipping the world on its axis, moon dwellers and giant canons? A new translation of a lost Jules Verne masterpiece of course
Still Haunted by the Ghost of Mao
Despite China’s prosperity, the People’s Republic remains in the grip of the monstrous ideology of its founder
The Long Shadow of Tiananmen
An eye-witness of the massacre says its malign legacy persists 20 years on
China’s Rural Nightmare
As the global economic crisis hits home, Beijing faces what the country’s rulers have always feared – a peasants’ revolt
Last lines: Clive James
Fans of Clive James cherished his poetry as much as his other accomplishments. This is an excerpt from Ian Shircore’s new biography, “So Brightly at the Last”, the first full-length study of the man and his muse
The BBC must be saved from itself
Our national broadcaster is on course for financial self-destruction and viewers no longer trust it to be impartial. Boris must rescue it
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty