Melanie Phillips
The onslaught against the West’s moral codes
Western progressives claim that religion is irrational and are engaged in trying to destroy it. But nothing could be further from the truth.
The New Intolerance
The atheists’ desire to reject all forms of religion has led to the formation of a new, irrational and intolerant, secular faith
Overrated: Mahmoud Abbas
The man Western liberals believe should be leader of an independent Palestine is a Jew-hater who deserves to be prosecuted
Promise and Redemption
Book review of Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Launching Pad of the Neocons
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin Balint
Saul Alinsky
Does David Cameron know that one of the inspirations for his “Big Society” was a Marxist who wanted to overthrow Western society?
How the West Took Leave of its Senses
Modern secular millennarians are embracing illiberal ideologies — and once again the Jews are in the firing line
Faking a Killing
The world reacted with horror when it saw a 12-year-old boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers. But the footage, it transpires, told a lie
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