Caroline Moore
Outsider’s Insight
Book review of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
In Love with His Public
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater
Swallowing the Party Line
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
Tudor Fixer
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Postcards From the Damned
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Heartbreak and Privilege
Ettie by Richard Davenport-Hines
Love in a Snowy Climate
Human Love by Andreï Makine
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