Jonathan Mirsky

Charmed out of their minds

David Cameron probably didn’t need reminding while he was in China what fools intelligent people can be when they visit authoritarian regimes.

  • Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China

    Patrick Wright

    OUP, pp. 591

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