Margot Lurie
The Banality of Hannah Arendt
A new biopic is shameless in its boosterism of the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem, whose dubious legacy should be given its proper context
Nourishment by the Gross
Big Brother is Lionel Shriver at her cold-eyed best; a nourishing helping of fearless, humane and sober prose
Elegy in the Nude
A new poem
The Appearance
A new poem
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