‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’

‘The US has been hoist on the petard of its own propaganda, its own vanity about itself being a “nation of immigrants”’

Politicians sat on their hands as the mighty American economy was sent to its doom. What is to be done to prevent a repeat?

William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson