Tim Montgomerie
American Conservatives Must Stand Up To Trump
Who governs America matters to every citizen of the world. Yet a bigoted demagogue stands a real chance of being elected President
Underrated: Owen Paterson
The Cabinet’s leading environmental sceptic has charted a steady rise to his new job as Northern Ireland Secretary.
How to Retake the Moral High Ground
Cameron will only break Labour’s monopoly of morality by finding the words and tools to redefine Bush’s compassionate conservatism
Iain Duncan Smith
The “quiet man” has nerves of steel, and his welfare reform may make the Conservatives the natural party of government again
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