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June 2008

How To Defeat The Global Jihadists



While America prepares for the next wave of terrorist attacks, Britain is sleepwalking. Yet it is not too late to avert disaster


Features

Putin's New Evil Empire

The West is a gift to Kremlin propagandists; we should express more pride in our system that has given genuine freedom to millions

Breaking Faith With Britain

Christianity is central to British identity, but its marginalisation has created a moral vacuum which radical Islam threatens to fill

Science Is Golden

We must pay for cathedrals of knowledge if scientists are to solve the great mysteries of the universe

Secret Justice, Private Hell

Family courts are putting parents on trial for their children. Instead of helping to keep families together, these secretive tribunals are breaking them apart — often for trivial reasons


Dialogue

Long Night of the Red Star

Jung Chang and her husband Jon Halliday are leading authorities on Mao, while Simon Sebag Montefiore has published two major works on Stalin. With Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, they discuss the two communist dictators who were responsible for up to 100 million deaths


Counterpoints


Columns