Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood warns the world is ‘fertile for dictators’ Margaret Atwood, 81, warned against ‘extremes at both ends’ of political sphere She penned classic dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale set in a near-future US Believes there is reason to fear the extreme political climate around the world By Monica Greep For Mailonline Published: 18:33 GMT, … Read more
You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one of the key Communist Party leaders in China and president, since 2013, of the Supreme People’s Court. This body oversees ‘justice’ in a country that jails dissidents and harvests body parts from criminals. As a loyal apparatchik, he has argued that China’s courts … Read more
There was once a famous Chinese executioner so skilful with his razor-edged sword that crowds would pay to watch him behead criminals. One day he came to a small provincial town where the authorities had given him a large fee to do away with a notorious killer. He entered the arena and made several elegant … Read more
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s new memoir accuses President Donald Trump of ‘obstruction of justice as a way of life’ and carrying out a chaotic foreign policy not designed beyond any grand strategy other than to serve the president’s personal benefit. Bolton’s bombshell book contains startling new claims of alleged misconduct by President Trump – … Read more