Middle East
The Great Migration
“The ultimate demographic impact on Europe of the present wave of migration is totally unpredictable”
Migrant Crisis? Europe Hasn’t Seen Anything Yet
The exodus is changing the West before our eyes. Lack of leadership has allowed the Continent to drift towards a form of cultural suicide.
Gaza Withdrawal Symptoms
Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza has left lasting bitterness
Subverting The Superpowers
Efraim Karsh’s book on the creation of the modern Middle East is timely but overstates his case
The Grand Illusion
‘It is tempting to pretend that the mayhem unleashed by the Arab Spring will somehow not affect us. It will. It already does’
How To Rescue Iraq From Obama’s Folly
Only US troops as part of an international force can halt ISIS in its tracks as its influence spreads due to the President’s disastrous policies
End Syria’s War
‘Four years of Western inaction in Syria have contributed to the crisis in the Mediterranean. So has our ill-conceived intervention in Libya’
The Global Politics Of Netanyahu’s Victory
There was more to his controversial statement about Arab votes than Netanyahu’s critics cared to acknowledge
We Cannot Avoid The Battle Over Blasphemy
Why do we turn a blind eye to executions in Muslim states? After Paris, we must confront attempts to impose extreme versions of Islam in the West
Habitual Hypocrisy
“I’ve said it before: where do the Israel-bashers stand on Syria? I’ll say it again because I hear a resounding silence.”
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