John Phelan
No, He Can’t
The people who voted fro Obama to save Medicare and Medicaid are deluding themselves: these programmes won’t be saved by the President’s waffle
Free To Choose
We now live in the world of iDemocracy, according to Douglas Carswell, but unlimited choice in the state sector is unsustainable
A Profligate President
George W. Bush has just published a collection of essays on the financial crisis — if only he’d acted on this wisdom before the event
Overrated: Paul Krugman
The darling of the liberal intelligentsia and Nobel laureate’s plan to end the economic depression would only prolong it
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