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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

Columns

Manchester Square

Anglo-American Attitudes

DANIEL JOHNSON

‘America is a looking glass in which humanity sees itself reflected and, all too often, distorted by fear, envy and resentment’

The Mole

The CPS: A Criminal Waste of Money

ANONYMOUS

Standpoint’s Mole inside the Crown Prosecution Service believes that it is too bureaucratic, inefficient and politicised

Cosmos

Science and Sentimentalism

JOHN STEIN

By blocking the construction of the new Oxford laboratories, animal-rights activists are harming the university, the public and the animals themselves

Marketplace

TIM CONGDON

‘George Soros is much too pessimistic. The slowdown in late 2008 and 2009 will be only a blip on the path to further prosperity’

Little Platoons

Teaching Protection

LOUIS AMIS

This month's small organisation making a big difference is Tostan

Imagination

Party Lines

DAISY WAUGH

Daisy Waugh eavesdrops on the chattering classes

The Outsider

DOUGLAS MURRAY

‘I’m not sure what David Cameron intends to do for me when he offers to support people if they split up with their partners’

The Way We (Don't) Live Now

TIBOR FISCHER

‘Seventies London was a great place to grow up. As the son of refugees, I say to the English: so long, and thanks for the language’

Points East and West

EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI

‘A nuclear Iran is not just Israel’s problem. Stopping its programme is a paramount Western interest’

Utopia

Reclaiming the Intellectual Life for Posterity

ALAIN DE BOTTON

The academic world has lost its way. We need a University of Life that teaches us how to be wiser

Guest Speaker

FRANK FIELD

‘The one education reform no government has tried is putting parents firmly in control’

Open Season

JULIE BURCHILL

‘Shame on you, ladies, for showing so little pride in your own hard-won Western freedoms’