Tacitus
How our adversaries use our flaws against us
‘For a young officer unaccustomed to the crack of rounds hissing around me, the ill-trained jihadis in black masks seemed straight out of central casting. It took years for me to realise how insignificant such events really were’
To preserve liberal democracy, look East
‘The Baltic democracies accomplished what their allies to the West still have not: they hardened their societies without undermining their democratic institutions’
Thus always to tyrants
Actually — assassinating Soleimani was the right thing to do
The myth of “military efficiency”
Civilians talk of “military efficiency”. We soldiers know better
A view from the ramparts
The West spends too much money on weapons and too little time on promoting its real strength: ideas
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