Blog posts
Posted on 25th July, 2025
Confucius’ birthplace, QuFu
In July 2025 I joined several hundred scholars and writers at the Nishan 泥山Conference in Qufu曲阜, the birthplace of Confucius, to discuss the meaning of modernization today. I was …
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Posted on 18th September, 2024
In My Grandfather’s Shadow: a case of inherited trauma
Angela Findlay’s In My Grandfather’s Shadow explores how post-traumatic stress disorder can manifest itself for generations after the original trauma. Her grandfather’s realisation that he had been a moral failure, …
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Posted on 18th September, 2024
WHY I AM A LEFTIST
WHY I AM A LEFTIST Our career politicians fling around epithets like ‘leftist’, ‘rightist’ and ‘populist’ as insults or accolades. So for the rest of us, the ‘normies’ (normal people) …
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Posted on 14th May, 2024
Chinese resistance to the suppression of the truth
Anyone who visits China today and is interested in Chinese civilisation wants to know whether ‘it’ has survived the bludgeoning it has had since 1949. Can anything remain, after the …
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Posted on 7th March, 2024
Vassal State
Vassal State reveals the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain’s economy: how American business chiefs decide what we’re paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. …
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Posted on 3rd March, 2024
The fascination of Tom Sharpe
Whenever I saw a Tom Sharpe novel, I used to feel a shudder go through me. I felt that his sardonic, cruel and even bitter farces had no relation with …
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