Con Coughlin
Let the Soldiers do the Fighting, says the General
Britain’s former chief of staff says politicians have undermined military strategy by meddling, leading Putin and Islamic State to despise the West
Underrated: Hamid Karzai
The retiring Afghan President who, for all his faults, has defended freedom and democracy
Overrated: The Emir of Qatar
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani: the ruler who funds Islamist extremists
Rough Justice or Murder?
The Reckoning tells of how Avraham Stern’s death changed the fate of Israel
Overrated: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Despite their Supreme Leader’s violent hostility to Israel and the West, many Iranians believe he is simply not up to the job
His Master’s Angry Voice
A disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini’s apocalyptic ideology, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is about to turn Iran into a nuclear rogue state
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