JM Shaw
Cut Foreign Aid — And Make Poverty History
Britain’s insistence on giving money we cannot afford to Africans who do not want it puts sentimentality before common sense
ONLINE ONLY: Education It’s Not
The author of a powerful new novel set in a comprehensive school explains why A-level results convey little about a pupil’s education
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