Seat Cheats
The enormous hidden costs of low-cost air travel are symptomatic of a disturbing cultural shift
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Maths Class
The government's insistence on incessant testing leaves pupils arithmetically substandard
Foot Soldier
Michael Foot's inimitable character left its impression on a war-time and desperate Croatia
Bring On the Bugs
Is one solution to our current financial quagmire to chow-down on creepy-crawlies?
Idée fixe
Fiction portentously predicts reality in Anthony Trollope's dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia
Palestine’s Tragedy
The recent Israeli Apartheid Week shamefully neglected Zionism's complaisance to peaceful co-existence
The Master of Historical Fiction
Allan Massie salutes Sir Walter Scott, master of historical fiction and author of among others, Rob Roy and Waverley
Is the Party Really Over for Labour?
Andrew Rawnsley, the author of the investigative bestseller about the Blair-Brown years, looks forward to the General Election with Standpoint's columnist Nick Cohen and the Editor, Daniel Johnson
Is the Obama Presidency Failing?
The administration is in deep trouble on healthcare and national security “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them,” President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural
All to Play For as Cameron Wobbles
For two years, a Conservative victory looked to be a done deal — then the polls narrowed. Are the voters having second thoughts?
If England Had Remained Catholic
Did the Reformation rescue us from theocracy? Or are we poorer without pilgrims, saints and feasts?
Fauré on TV
I remember running various posts on my JDCMB site asking why Fauré is like a bus? Because there's nothing for ages, then a whopping great rush arrives en masse. The same is