Andrew Gimson
Underrated: Shiva Naipaul
A warm and witty writer with a mordant eye for the bad and the bogus
How can Theresa May survive Brexit?
The Prime Minister now looks dreadfully weak, but like all her predecessors she is a scapegoat, at the mercy of party and people
Sex, politics and the new blasphemy
Westminster is scandalised by sexual harassment that would once have been treated as a joke. But does the nation take it quite so seriously?
Underrated: Frank Field
The independent-minded Labour parliamentarian would have made an excellent Speaker
Britain Is A Free Country — Thanks To The Queen
The paradox of British democracy is that our unelected monarch safeguards our liberties better than an elected politician ever could
Campaign Diary
“The Chief Whip stormed the moral high ground and dug himself in. So why did I feel unable to follow Michael Gove over the top, as it were?”
Memorable Memoirs
‘The best political memoirs are shot through with a kind of candour’
In Search of the Incomparable Max
I discovered Max Beerbohm as an undergraduate. Rereading his work today has been just as enjoyable
United the Coalition Stands, Divided it Falls
Badmouthing each other is not a path to electoral success. Clegg and Cameron must defend what they have achieved together
Underrated: David Cameron
Our Prime Minister’s Anglican attitudes are as valuable to the Conservative party as they are to the nation
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