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30,000 vs 90,000: How Han Xin Won the Impossible Battle | Silk and Steel

After Liu Bang's catastrophic defeat at Pengcheng, the Han forces are desperately rebuilding. Han Xin is given command of a relatively small army and sent north to expand Liu Bang's position. His situation seems almost…

Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection

The byelection, called after the former prime minister Keir Starmer resigned from the seat in September, was considered a two-horse race between the Labour candidate, Sagal Abdi-Wali, and the Green party leader…

EU’s new list of critical mineral projects focuses on clean energy metals

The list covers 15 of the 17 “strategic minerals” under the act, which the bloc needs to deliver these targets on each one. Friday’s announcement is the second batch of strategic projects listed under the act, after the…

A promising future now looks perilous for election loser Zack Polanski. He sowed, now he reaps | John Harris

The result, he said, echoed national opinion polls and reflected two undeniable facts: that the Greens are in need of a period of contrition and reflection, and Labour ought to be slightly less than ecstatic. Andy…

Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

Palantir was co-founded by the Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel and has provided AI-powered software to the Israeli military and the White House's ICE immigration crackdown , leading to a public and political…

Chris Mason: Polanski faces greatest crisis of his leadership so far

Not this time. Make no mistake, the new MP for Holborn and St Pancras in north London, Sagal Abdi-Wali, has quite the story to tell. She arrived in the UK as a child refugee from Somalia in the 1990s, grew up locally in…

Unmasking a multi-party race to the bottom of identity politics tells you less about the target and more about who’s doing it

It’s depressing that I do. If you use Kemi Badenoch’s full name – which she does not, anymore than Zia Yusuf, Laila Cunningham, or Raheem Kassam do – or mention her Nigerian heritage in an online post, you are doing so…

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way , a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the phrase in her main speech .…

Tommy Birch: Revival, rising up from the depths – can we keep our Conference momentum?

There is something infectious about Party Conference, and I’m not just talking about the notorious post-conference flu, which so far, it seems, I have managed to escape (touch wood). Anyone who spent this week at the ICC…

Jon Hollis: Kemi Badenoch, Kevin Bacon’s tractor and how to win a game of ‘Chicken!’

At school I had a maths teacher who once explained Game Theory in terms of how to win a game of Chicken. If you aren’t aware of ‘Chicken’, the rules are that two drivers drive towards each other and the car – or, if…