Dan Hitchens
Students Are Leading The Free Speech Fightback
University campuses have become dangerous places to speak your mind. But the censors have suffered a number of recent reverses
Kind Hearts And Couplets
Two poets show that fierce emotion is not restricted by rhyme or meter
Shame On All Of You
Social media’s mob mentality
Better than a Grand Slam
Clive James: whether the culture is low or high, he is in it for the thrills
Dead Wrong
Eugenics in the modern world
Papal Subversives
John XXIII resisted totalitarianism and saved thousands of Slovakian Jews
The Intellectual of The Masses
John Carey sticks up for ‘ordinary life’ in his memoir The Unexpected Professor
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