Seeing similarities to Vladimir Putin’s distorted rhetoric in his lead-up to the invasion of Ukraine, Bill Hayton in Unherd writes how Xi Jinping is using his own erroneous revisionist history to justify imperialistic territorial ambitions that could plunge a vital – and peace-loving – trading region of the world into conflict.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


