People power is winning in Hong Kong, as the city-state’s governing system – based on the old British colonial model but with Chinese state control bolted on – comes under severe strain

HONG KONG’S rulers have been under siege for over three months - from their own people.

The G7 in Biarritz will not be able to hide its cataclysmic failure from history, with additional contempt surely reserved for the ultra-narcissist Trump-Johnson axis, CommonSpace editor Ben Wray finds

“WE TALKED about: ‘Where’s England, what’s happening with England, they don’t use it anymore’. It’s very interesting, we discussed that.”

India’s decision to abolish Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status and place it under direct military control has inflamed tensions between the Indian and Pakistani governments and raised concerns globally. How did it come to this?

What is the history of the conflict in Kashmir?

The roots of the long-standing conflict over the Himalayan region of Kashmir can be traced back to British colonialism and its legacy.

Energy and technology writer Gordon Morgan says that the US is trying to stem China’s rise through levering its allies – which is why the beginning of 5G roll-out in the UK will be worrying Washington

LAST Thursday, ahead of most other countries, a 5G internet service was released in the UK by EE. 

The sacking of Gavin Williamson as Defence Secretary exposes a dispute much bigger than his eccentricity and ego, David Jamieson finds

YOU could be forgiven for thinking the sacking of Gavin Williamson from his position as defence secretary represents either his own eccentricity and lack of quality as a minister, or merely a continuation of the chaotic regime of Theresa May, someone who has so evidently lost any authority over her cabinet, just as she has lost 48 ministers since June 2016, just as she has lost all control over the House of Commons.

Bill Ramsay, SNP CND chair, examines Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson’s speech yesterday, finds his vision for the British military post-Brexit is dangerously delusional, especially in its plans to sail into the South China Sea

The UK Defence Minister delivered a speech for the ages – so riddled with imperial bombast and blood-thirsty intent that no one could fail to read it and still think Britain is one of the world’s good guys

GAVIN WILLIAMSON, UK Defence Minister, delivered a speech on Monday [11 February] that will probably go down in history. Not because it was in any way good, or coherent, or elegant. It was none of those things. 

Gordon Morgan, Common Weal energy researcher, looks at the recent arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada, and finds it to be at the centre of an imperialist rivalry between the US and China over the future of big tech, as 5G is about to transform the digital communications market

Effectively combating climate change is only possible by recognising that we are already in the midst of a global catastrophe

CLIMATE CHANGE, for those who believe that scientists know something about science, traversed from theory to reality before any of us were born. That the Earth was capable of vast climactic shifts was recognised as early as the late 18th century; a hundred years later, the unwitting (or uncaring) role which humanity’s influence played in such environmental upheavals was first posited.

Angus Baird, Masters Student who lived in China for two years as an ESL teacher, writes about his visit to the Nanjing Massacre Museum, which showed him a history of the Second World War that is not understood in Western society, and which still shapes Chinese politics and international relations today