Britain's insistence on giving money we cannot afford to Africans who do not want it puts sentimentality before common sense

Dambisa Moyo, author of How the West was Lost, and Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and the Rest, discuss the Eastern challenge to Western prosperity with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson

'The Chinese government is destroying the mud-brick maze of traditional Kashgar to cement control over its rebellious Turkic natives. Uighurs are terrified that by mid-century they will have become the Apache or Cherokee of China's Wild West'

British businesses are nowhere to be seen in Iraq, unlike the companies of those countries that opposed the war