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July 2008

Standpoint is published monthly by Social Affairs Unit Magazines Limited, a subsiduary of the Social Affairs Unit (Registered Charity No.281530). The views expressed in Standpoint are those of its individual authors, not those of the Social Affairs Unit Magazines Ltd and its Directors or those of the Social Affairs Unit and its Trustees and Director

Counterpoints

The Writing on the Wall

MICHAEL PRODGER

There is much to admire about Banksy. But is he any good?

From Berlin to Beijing

GUY WALTERS

The tradition of the Olympic torch relay is not ancient and has nothing to do with Greece. It was in fact an invention of the Third Reich

Revisionist Thinking

KATIE IVENS

If there are children suffering from test-related stress it is their teachers, not the tests, that must bear the blame

Name-dropping is Uncharitable

MINETTE MARRIN

When charities drop their illustrious founders' names, we all lose

Publishers Should Know Better

MAX DAVIDSON

The word "bestseller" is a terminological outrage

Operatic Passions

GERALD JACOBS

High Court Judges may not like it but The Jeremy Kyle show has a consistent underlying morality

Scientific Stereotypes

MICHAEL HANLON

I have had the privilege of meeting and observing hundreds of scientists over the years and can confirm that many (but not all) of the stereotypes about them are true