March 26, 2013 | Standpoint Magazine

What To Do With the Huddled Masses?

David Goodhart's The British Dream isn't a scintillating read, but it is a thoughtful articulation of the UK's changing attitudes to immigration

March 26, 2013

Books·Immigration

The Moneybags and the Brains

The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 saw a historic meeting of economists that changed the world forever

March 26, 2013

Books·Economy

Weathering The Storm

Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker is a masterpiece of historical scholarship, but fails entirely in its stated aim of linking political disaster to a changing climate

March 26, 2013

Books·Environment

Monstrosities of a Vile Victorian

Linda Stratmann's attempt to exculpate the Marquess of Queensberry of his myriad sins is a misguided stab at rescuing a the reputation of a truly wretched man

March 26, 2013

Books·History

Russia’s Poisoned Hinterland

The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough charts the unsavoury history of alcoholism, violence, abortions and nihilism in the former USSR. For all this, it is beautifully written

March 26, 2013

Books·Russia

Transatlantic Vanity Project

Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein's published correspondence is a phoney exercise in literary bitchiness and mutual back-slapping

March 26, 2013

Books·Literature

More Than a Curmudgeon

R.S. Thomas is frequently characterised as a misanthropic ogre. On the centenary of his birth, the publication of his humane Uncollected Poems belies this misplaced view

March 26, 2013

Books·Literature