Alexander Waugh
Troppo Grosso
Harmony and Discord: The Real Life of Johann Sebastian Bach by Julian Shuckburgh
Dazed and Confused
William Golding: The Man who wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics