Articles By Robert Low
June 2013
The most reviled personality in British journalism is a courageous writer whose independent thought has made her the target of boorish, misogynistic and anti-Semitic abuse
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April 2013
The winning drink will be served at the inaugural Standpoint salon
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April 2013
Sports-pages-stalwart Roger Mortimer's writing has been resurrected with the publication of letters to his children
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April 2013
As has been the case for hundreds of years, the appointment of Pope Francis was announced in Latin. But the BBC and Sky News didn't know their quas from their elbows
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December 2012
Sylvie Simmons's biography of Leonard Cohen uncovers the importance of his Jewish identity in understanding the troubadour's great output
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September 2012
I once met Gore Vidal at a dinner party. He was less an intellectual heavyweight and more a drunken and repetitive bore
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June 2012
Will the greenest and most glamorous of the new crop of Conservative MPs stay the course?
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April 2012
Gary Player famously said "the more I practice the luckier I get". But does this sporting adage work for politicians?
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April 2012
Book review of Peace, They Say by Jay Nordlinger
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March 2012
Book reviews of The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Jenny Hartley and P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
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January/February 2012
A new limited-edition paperback documents the charming correspondence between US book collector Robert Vanderbilt and Anthony Powell
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December 2011
Americanisms sullying the English language are rarely harmful — apart from when they insinuate that our politicians are all-powerful
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November 2011
The Independent's new masthead is a little too close to home for Standpoint
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July/August 2011
The indefatigable showbusiness veteran manages to deliver happiness without a PhD or a government diktat
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May 2011
The infamous phrase shouldn't be attributed to Mrs T — it was first coined by David Lodge in his novel, Ginger, You're Barmy
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November 2010
A bookshelf of Tracey Emin's personal favourites throws up a notable surprise
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October 2010
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
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June 2010
My mother, at the age of 100, may feel enfranchised at last
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May 2010
Final Demands by Frederic Raphael
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April 2010
Fiction portentously predicts reality in Anthony Trollope's dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia
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December 2009
Papa Spy by Jimmy Burns
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November 2009
Do the Post Office's problems signal a return to the old privatisation debate?
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September 2009
The journalist Jeff Randall is heading a campaign to set up a Chair in Jewish Studies at Nottingham University
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July/August 2009
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
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June 2009
On Roads: A Hidden History by Joe Moran
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May 2009
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
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April 2009
In sport, it’s not just knowing how to lose that’s important, it’s also knowing how to win
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February 2009
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah A. Stein
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January 2009
The Bagel by Maria Balinska
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October 2008
The Believers by Zoë Heller
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About Robert Low
Robert Low is Consultant Editor at Standpoint.
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