September 25, 2012 | Page 2 of 2 | Standpoint Magazine

Can Romney Spring an October surprise?

The presidential debates are the Republican's last chance to seize the initiative from Barack Obama. A strong performance and the race could be back on overnight

September 25, 2012

Dispatches·US Politics

Window Brothels Get the Red Light

The experiment is over. After 12 years of legalised prostitution organised crime in Amsterdam has risen, not fallen.

September 25, 2012

Dispatches·Social Affairs

Boris’s 2020 Vision

By 2018 David Cameron will be ready to step down leaving the way clear for the London Mayor to swap City Hall for Number 10

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·UK Politics

Blair Baiting

A website, arrestblair.org, is offering cash rewards to anyone who attempts to apprehend the former PM. Interested, Desmond Tutu?

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·Iraq·UK Politics

M. Flanby’s Holiday

French president François Hollande seems to find monogamy too bourgeois for his tastes but all these former lovers are proving de trop

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·France

Blind Ambition

In the wake of the Paralympics, a new biography celebrates the life of our greatest disabled serviceman: Horatio Nelson

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·Military

Taking a Liberty

The financial crisis has produced a new wave of young libertarians but these radicals champion freedom over and above virtue

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·Philosophy·Politics·Social Affairs

Hops and Glory

The revelation that Obama's White House brewery is using Kentish hops shows America's changing attitudes to cask ale

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·Food

Barmy Weather

Flipping the world on its axis, moon dwellers and giant canons? A new translation of a lost Jules Verne masterpiece of course

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·Literature

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