Lebanon
ONLINE Only: The Thin Blue Line
If Lebanon’s unprovoked attack on an Israeli maintenance team was premeditated, it points to something darker on the horizon
Beirut: Blood on the Streets
‘Then the beating began. One of the new arrivals punched Christopher hard in the face. Two others grabbed his arm and started dragging him across the street. For the first time the Hitch looked scared’
His Master’s Angry Voice
A disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini’s apocalyptic ideology, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is about to turn Iran into a nuclear rogue state
The Future of Unholy War
The story of al-Qaeda’s lost leader, Abdullah Azzam, illuminates the murderous nature of global jihad
ONLINE ONLY: The Great Divide
The deadliest but least understood Middle Eastern faultline is between Sunni and Shia
ONLINE ONLY: Beirut: Blood Holiday
Lebanon’s celebration of a brutal killer’s release illustrates the extent – and the limitations – of Hizbullah’s power
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