Nick Cohen
England will sink giggling into the sea
‘There is nothing comfortable or comforting about modern British history’
Damage and disillusion
‘Among large sections of the middle class, the belief in British good fortune and British good sense has vanished. Politically, I cannot see where their anger goes’
Heathens and heretics
‘Virtually everyone I know is engaged in arguments about whether it is worth staying with either main party’
The joy of virtual sex
Can society stand by and allow the technology that allows people to simulate sex with their neighbour?
Extremism is good business
Promoting demagogues of Left and Right makes for increased ratings but is bad for democracy
Moral cowardice of conservatives
Eurosceptics lacked the integrity to acknowledge the consequences of leaving the EU’s single market
You too, Polanski
Hollywood has finally washed its hands of a sexual predator, a mere 40 years after his conviction
The madness of Lord Adonis
The centrist ex-minister has joined Left and Right in denouncing the BBC for its political bias
McCarthyism is Corbyn’s alibi
The legitimate language of dissent is being abused by politicians of Left and Right alike
Russian spider spins its web
Putin’s propagandists are running rings round the West, aided by naive and ignorant media outlets
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