John O' Sullivan
She Was Difficult On Britain’s Behalf
It is one mark of the historical importance of Margaret Thatcher that she has inspired three full-dress political biographies within seven months of her death and, still more significantly, that all three are excellent. All three are also rooted in close relationships with the former Prime Minister. And each one is different from the other two.
King of the Sketch
The parliamentary sketch failed to make it to the US – what does this say about their politics?
Gray’s Elegy
Coda by Simon Gray
Judges Can be Overruled
The EU’s Human Rights Act need not be incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty – if the government were to grow a backbone
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