Edinburgh Chinese New Year Festival. Credit: Getty

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The UK’s hidden success story: the British Chinese The group has a proven record of academic and economic achievement

Friday, January 20

Autism: the latest front in the culture wars Activists across the political spectrum have weaponised the identity

What Bolshevism tells us about the future of wokeism After the revolution, the real terror may be yet to come

Japan downgrades Covid amid vaccine safety concerns The country is one of the most vaccine-sceptical in the world

Transhumanism is already here But the promise of utopia has failed to materialise

Mary Harrington

Keir Starmer tries to shake off Corbynite baggage at Davos The Labour leader's panel did not go as planned

Richard Johnson

Thursday, January 19

We are fighting for the preservation of Western civilisation The American thinker lays out his theory for modern anti-racism

Strikers are a welcome change from Just Stop Oil Protest has been wrestled back from the middle classes

Philip Cunliffe

What’s behind Olaf Scholz’s Ukraine hesitancy? The German Chancellor continues to drag his feet

Ralph Schoellhammer

Hear me out: Klaus Schwab used to be cool The WEF chairman once gave new and interesting voices a platform

Izabella Kaminska

Can the West keep arming Ukraine? As the conflict escalates, Zelenskyy's allies face a dilemma

Wednesday, January 18

The Left-wing case for a free speech tsar Arif Ahmed can help students rediscover the core values of higher education

The moral grandstanding behind San Francisco’s reparations plan The supposedly progressive city is alienating its black residents

The forgotten Tory blueprint for the NHS Before the Attlee government of 1945, Henry Willink MP had a plan

Henry Kissinger: Why I changed my mind about Ukraine The statesman believes the country should now join NATO

Tuesday, January 17

Matthew B. Crawford: the perpetual state of emergency The philosopher explains why states like to embrace endless crises

Cold War 2.0 will not be between China and the West A Davos panel offers an incorrect assessment

Philip Pilkington

I don’t have a Gender Recognition Certificate — and I don’t want one I don't require government-issued paperwork to prove that I am trans

Peace has become a dirty word in Central Europe Attitudes to the Ukraine war now form a major fault line on the continent

William Nattrass

Monday, January 16

The Public Order Bill is a danger to protest rights The Government's latest amendment will grant the state far too much power

Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun The French historian says that the West is now in an existential conflict

The Davos 2023 agenda lies in ruins The mood at this year’s WEF meeting is rather downbeat

Is Sergei Lavrov looking for a way out? One of Vladimir Putin's most loyal servants appears to be running out of steam

Bethany Elliott

Why Scotland’s gender reform bill affects the whole UK Rishi Sunak has the power, and justification, to block the bill

Friday, January 13

Joe Biden’s hypocrisy will hurt him The President has more in common with Donald Trump than he realises

The scientific case against face masks The press is once again promoting a measure proved to be ineffective

Leslie Bienen, Jeanne Noble and Margery Smelkinson

Tate criticised for Drag Queen Story Hour children’s readings Several groups claim the gallery is targeting kids with gender propaganda

Josephine Bartosch

The Brits go ‘gender-neutral’ and women disappear Only men are nominated in the new best artist category

Harry’s lament is Puccini turned upside down This time, the heroine is not the tragic victim

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Thursday, January 12

Andrew Bridgen: the latest example of Right-wing self-sabotage Using the Holocaust to discuss vaccine side-effects is counter-productive

Coleman Hughes: asking ‘where are you from?’ isn’t racist The writer responds to Prince Harry and Ngozi Fulani

The German Greens are playing into Russia’s hands The push for clean energy may, perversely, lead to more demand for Russian gas

Ralph Schoellhammer