August 23, 2010 | Standpoint Magazine

A Clever Fool

JONATHAN FOREMAN How do you reconcile Robert Harris the clever, sensitive, erudite and sensible author of "Fatherland" and two excellent novels based on the life of Cicero, with the politically correct prig

August 23, 2010

Istanbul: Press Freedom Alla Turca

'When Western journalists note in a casual aside that press freedom has experienced certain setbacks under the AKP, they are failing to do justice to the severity of this calamity and its

August 23, 2010

Dispatches·Israel

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work

August 23, 2010

Cosmos·History·Science

Johannesburg: Hard Pressed

'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom

August 23, 2010

Africa·Dispatches·Social Affairs

Poetry in Motion

Photographic pioneer, inventor and killer, Eadweard Muybridge was a very complex character indeed

August 23, 2010

Art

Big Mistake

It wouldn't surprise me if Obama's support for the Islamic Centre and Mosque near Ground Zero costs him the next election. I'm on holiday right now in California, which, despite its tendancy

August 23, 2010

The Misfit at No 10

State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler

August 23, 2010

Books·Literature·UK Politics·Westminster

It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us

Instead of embarking on the project of "saving God" by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need

August 23, 2010

Critique·Faith·Philosophy·Science