Gerald Frost
Catalan myths must now confront reality
The claims of the pro-independence campaigners are historically dubious
Orbán’s Hungary is haunted by its ghosts
The Magyar leader revels in his role as Europe’s Bad Boy, but he has failed to end a long Hungarian history of corruption and stagnation
The Lady Was For Leaving
‘I was left in no doubt of Lady Thatcher’s conviction that EU membership was fundamentally at variance with British interests’
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