South Korea has a long history of martial law
Yesterday afternoon South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol made the shock TV announcement that he was putting his country under…
Why the West must back Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
I had a nasty shock when I switched on my TV on Sunday. It was clearly a propaganda film with…
Leyte Gulf is the greatest naval battle you’ve never heard of
When you think of great naval engagements, the Battle of Leyte Gulf does not immediately spring to mind, despite it…
India will never join China’s anti-western alliance
On the 15 November Xi Jinping will mark the 12th anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party…
Tesla is in trouble if Kamala Harris wins
In the third century BC the city of Rhodes, in celebration of the defeat of Demetrius I of Macedonia, built…
The long-forgotten history of the Chagos Islands
Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige…
Why Taiwan is pulling down statues of Chiang Kai-shek
While the West obsesses about whether or not China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, is going to invade Taiwan, the Taiwanese…
Narendra Modi is unbeatable
Voting in India’s national elections started last Friday. It will take six weeks to complete, which is less of a…
The West’s shameful silence on Imran Khan’s imprisonment
Donald Trump should spare a thought for Imran Khan. If the former US president feels overrun by lawsuits, he could…
The long and bloody history of tunnel warfare
Tunnel fighting has always been a problem. As Israel battles in Gaza against some 5,000 Hamas fighters embedded in buildings,…
The first world war wasn’t the first world war
For reasons that not even Czechs can explain, in the past they developed a habit of throwing their rulers out…
How an American racing driver and war in Mongolia helped to defeat Hitler
Of all the ‘practice’ wars that preceded the main events of the second world war, including the Spanish civil war…
The forgotten end of the second world war
Two weeks ago, VJ day (Victory over Japan day) celebrated the end of the Pacific War. On 15 August 1945…
What explains Taiwan’s warmth towards Imperial Japan?
The online TaiwanPlus news agency reported recently that a new memorial had been unveiled in southern Taiwan to commemorate the…
Britain’s nuclear test veterans are finally being remembered
Some wars get forgotten (viz Korea and Malaya); others are constantly refreshed in memory. As the manager of an Asian…
Why do we forget Britain’s role in the Korean War?
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. Sadly, in the British media it will be forgotten that…
Britain’s war in Malaya
On 17 June 1948, seventy-five years ago this weekend, the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee declared war on the ethnic…
The troubling arrest of Imran Khan
The saga of Imran Khan’s political career rumbles on. While on his way to the High Court in Islamabad yesterday…
China and the strange history of balloon warfare
China’s ‘spy’ balloon, (or is it an errant weather balloon?), is currently being tracked across America. Picked up above the…
What the revisionists get wrong about America’s nuclear bombings
The use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is hardly a festive subject. But given that in recent conversations…
The remarkable conversion of the lead Pearl Harbor bomber
This week marks the 81st anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which…
Who tried to assassinate Imran Khan? And why?
At the end of August I warned in The Spectator that, in Pakistan politics, ‘death by assassination is always a…
The morality of the EU’s gas grab in Azerbaijan
My enemy’s enemy is my friend. This ancient proverb partly describes the EU’s fast developing relationship with Muslim Azerbaijan, a…
China vs the US: who will win the chip war?
Semiconductors are the latest battleground for China and the US
Pakistan is on the brink
On Tuesday I speculated that Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, now the opposition leader, was so popular that he…
