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Useful Idiocy Of The Right
Conservatives used to value scepticism and fight fanaticism. Now their stories ring false
Our World In Stupor Lies
The America of Bill Buckley and Victor Navasky is gone. Elitist journalism is marginalised
Why Trump Is Beyond Satire
Saturday Night Live’s portrayal of the Republican candidate for President shows the limits of comedy’s power
The Dead End Of Identity Politics
Lionel Shriver is right: “cultural appropriation” is an idea that fatally suffocates writers and artists
Populism Vs The People
Supporters of Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn share an aversion to journalists — and the truth
The Bard’s New Bowdlers
Russell T. Davies’s banal sanitisation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is typical of modern censorship
Menacing Auntie
In attacking the BBC, the Right is apeing outdated Marxist thinking rather than searching for the truth
When Rainbow Colours Clash
The oppressed are not always virtuous. The sooner the Left realises its mistake the better
The Cowardice Of John Le Carré
As the BBC version of The Night Manager shows, the novelist has become his own tribute band
Flogging A Dead Degree
Universities are misselling careers in ‘industries’ that have no jobs to offer. How long before the scandal breaks?
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