Yuan Yi Zhu

3 weeks ago | thehub.ca | Yuan Yi Zhu

The Right Honourable Mark Carney is now Canada’s prime minister; and since he has neither held elected office nor spent much of the past years in Canada, we must turn elsewhere to divine his views about the country of which he is now the leader, as well as his outlook on the world more broadly. Luckily, in 2021, Mr. Carney, having then just stepped down as governor of the Bank of England after a controversial tenure, published a book about his vision for Canada and (mostly) for the world.

3 weeks ago | thecritic.co.uk | Yuan Yi Zhu

This article is taken from the April 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. A Westminster wag once remarked that British political scandals are different because they so often consist of nothing more than the public noticing what is already in the public domain. Outsourcing your wardrobe needs to Lord Alli was entirely within the rules, and since it was all declared on Parliament’s website what was all the fuss about?

1 month ago | thecritic.co.uk | Yuan Yi Zhu

Is true liberty a matter of independence or non-interference? This article is taken from the April 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. It almost feels like an impertinence to review Quentin Skinner’s latest book. The doyen of what is now known as the Cambridge School of the history of political thought, he is one of the few academics to become a legend in their own time.

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Yuan Yi Zhu

There are few better symbols of Europe’s military fecklessness during the brief era of relative peace that followed the end of the Cold War than the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, which banned the use of anti-personnel landmines by its signatories. The same is true of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), which outlawed cluster munitions. This was championed by Gordon Brown, despite the strong opposition of the British armed forces.

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Yuan Yi Zhu

There are few better symbols of Europe’s military fecklessness during the brief era of relative peace that followed the end of the Cold War than the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, which banned the use of anti-personnel landmines by its signatories. The same is true of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), which outlawed cluster munitions.