Madeline Grant
Overrated: Harry Potter
The bland, humourless and one-dimensional boy wizard pales against his more interesting friends
Going backward
‘My particular bugbear is that inherently redundant phrase “forward planning”. Ever tried ‘backward planning’?’
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