November 2009 | Standpoint Magazine

An Epidemic of Family Breakdown

The family justice system in England and Wales is overstretched and nearer to breaking point than it has ever been, a leading family judge said today.

November 28, 2009

David Cameron Uses CSC Research to Challenge Prime Minister Over Hizb ut-Tahrir Funding

In today's Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron used evidence from the Centre For Social Cohesion's report, Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy, to grill Gordon Brown over £113,000 in Government grants received by

November 25, 2009

Matthew Carr

A year ago I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. I attribute my recovery and survival, in part at least, to a grim determination not to predecease my father Raymond Carr. He

November 24, 2009

Uncategorized

Chomsky and Conspiracy Theories

"Denial" is an overused word, but in its original context it is essential for understanding how the heirs of mass murderers keep going. Why do modern neo-Nazis deny the Holocaust, when you

November 21, 2009

Bar Embraces Change

The Bar Standards Board, which regulates 14,000 barristers in England and Wales, gave its approval last night to fundamental changes in barristers' working practices.

November 20, 2009

An Ill Wind

I'd rather have a meatier, hotter and smellier world then give up beefy pleasures in order to reduce cow flatulence

November 19, 2009

Counterpoints·Environment

Tragedy of a Modest Master

A world championship match, held 100 years ago next month, may have been partly responsible for the loser's death

November 19, 2009

Chess

Conversation Stopper

Zoffany, 'the one-eyed German', was one of many masters of a very British sub-genre

November 19, 2009

Art

Eliot versus Hardy

Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot are the two greatest 20th-century poets in the English language, despite what they may have thought of one another. It is remarkable that the readers of Hardy's

November 19, 2009

Academia·Critique·Literature·Publishing

This is England

‘England is perceived by my Continental friends as being a country that is all about belonging or not belonging’

November 19, 2009

European Eye·Germany·Western Europe

Montana: Home From Home on the Range

‘I look around the dimly-lit bar and notice how the hard-drinking clientele watches suspicious newcomers like me, with my British-tainted accent and far too many questions. I ask another one: “Do the

November 19, 2009

Agriculture·Dispatches·North America

What Would Keynes Say?

The most inflential economist of the 20th century still dominates debate about the financial crisis. His biographer Robert Skidelsky and Britain's leading monetarist Tim Congdon discuss the relevance of Keynes

November 19, 2009

Academia·Dialogue·Economy