Overrated
Overrated: Napoleon
As we mark the bicentenary of Waterloo, there is an alarming trend towards rehabilitating Napoleon
Overrated: Marcus Brutus
How much truth is there in the myth of the “noblest Roman”?
Overrated: Nicola Sturgeon
Does the ruthless new leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party deserve to be calling the shots in Westminster too?
Overrated: John Maynard Keynes
The economist’s legacy has been mostly disastrous
Overrated: Diane Abbott
The publicity-chasing Labour MP who hopes to become Mayor of London
Overrated: Russell Brand
Our malign celebrity culture has puffed up a narcissist into a revolutionary to fill a hole where politics ought to be
Overrated: Lars von Trier
Why is the pretentious Danish film maker and self-styled Nazi taken so seriously?
Overrated: President Kirchner
Argentina’s president, who constantly plays the populist card, is more like Marie Antoinette than her idol Eva Perón
Overrated: The Emir of Qatar
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani: the ruler who funds Islamist extremists
Overrated: Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The photogenic Danish prime minister epitomises the out-of-touch Brussels elite
The West slumbers as its enemies run amok
Profound weaknesses leave us open to political warfare from Russia and China—weaknesses which they are ruthlessly exploiting
Routed by liberalism
How usury killed Christendom
Offences and defences
‘Standpoint is, as it has always been, a magazine for small-c conservatives and small-l liberals. But it is also for small-s socialists and small-g greens, and for those who resist pigeonholing on principle’