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Posts Tagged: Communism

Chris Whitehouse: One elderly recipient burst into tears with joy at the delivery. My own story of anti-communist smuggling.

In my case, the contraband was books – taken into then communist Czechoslovakia through a network linked to the charity Aid to the Church in Need.

By Chris Whitehouse | 29 March 2021

Greed can have good consequences, generosity bad ones. What counts isn’t the motive. It’s the result.

If you want societies that seek to impose virtue by force, leave the rest of us to muddled old Britain, and try Jonestown.

By Paul Goodman | 24 March 2021

The Soviet Union. My part in its downfall.

Arrested by the KGB for bringing in leaflets supporting multilateral disarmament, I was “banned for life” from returning.

By Harry Phibbs | 22 March 2021

Daniel Hannan: The China genocide amendment. Trade sanctions punish the innocent – and make fortunes for oppressive regimes

Though micro-measures aimed at those responsible might work: travel bans, asset seizures, arrest warrants.

By Lord Hannan | 17 February 2021 | 11 comments

Garvan Walshe: Democracies need to pull together to stop Chinese subversion of the open global economy

We deceived ourselves into thinking that as China grew richer, its political system would become more democratic.

By Garvan Walshe | 3 December 2020 | 45 comments

Bevin, the working-class John Bull who stood up to Stalin and has no successors in today’s Labour Party

Andrew Adonis’s new biography of “the first of a new breed of ‘common man’ who would manage the British state” and became one of the great Foreign Secretaries.

By Andrew Gimson | 11 July 2020 | 32 comments

Benedict Rogers: We are on the brink of a new Cold War. Hong Kong is the frontline.

If the free world values freedom, then it must wake up to the imminent dangers – or the threat will spread.

By Benedict Rogers | 24 June 2020 | 45 comments

For Johnson and the Conservatives, the power of patriotism is a plus

As with Brexit, the fundamentals of the Tory position are much stronger than they may seem to be.

By Paul Goodman | 22 June 2020 | 289 comments

Neil O’Brien: Like fax machines, pagers and your old macarena CD, it’s time to bin the 1990s

The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.

By Neil O Brien MP | 15 June 2020 | 49 comments

Daniel Hannan: One man driving to Durham imperils the nation’s health. But lots of protesters in London don’t. Have we all gone mad?

Sitting in a park is selfish, but organising a mass demonstration in a park is wonderful, and schools should still stay closed. Seriously?

By Daniel Hannan | 10 June 2020 | 239 comments

Tom Tugendhat: China. The five actions that the Government must take to defend our interests.

Given the salience of the topic, we are republishing the Chair of the Foreign Select Committee’s article above each day this week.

By Tom Tugendhat MP | 5 June 2020 | 196 comments

Bob Seely: While we are distracted by Covid-19, China prepares to seize Hong Kong – and crush freedom

We must now change the status of these passports to allow Hong Kong BNOs a quicker path to full UK citizenship.

By Bob Seely MP | 24 May 2020 | 135 comments

Neil O’Brien: Bullying, hostage taking, censorship, bribery. How China is dealing with its critics abroad.

Economically and politically, Beijing takes advantage of asymmetric openness: we’re open to them, but they are not to us.

By Neil O Brien MP | 18 May 2020 | 93 comments

Neil O’Brien: Why Conservative MPs have set up the China Research Group

The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t really believe in free or fair markets and has a strategy based on domination, not fair competition.

By Neil O Brien MP | 4 May 2020 | 188 comments

Benedict Rogers: Ten steps towards a more humane post-pandemic China policy

There can be no return to ‘business as usual’ with the Communist Party. Here’s how Britain can play a leading role in holding them to account.

By Benedict Rogers | 2 May 2020 | 188 comments

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