Valerie Grove
You Must Remember This
“Whenever I crop up in someone’s reminiscences, I find their memory irritatingly fallible”
Laurie Lee’s Ladies
Uncovering the truth from the author’s legend
Unhappy Families
Completion is a dazzling debut by a promising young novelist
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