December 15, 2014 | Standpoint Magazine

Obama scuttles. America retreats. Things fall apart

The 44th President of the United States replaced Pax Americana with a new world disorder. Will the 45th learn from his mistakes?

December 15, 2014

Features·US Politics

Putin and the Art of Political Fantasy

How does the Kremlin exploit Russia's long tradition of absurd conspiracy theories to control public opinion? By confabulation

December 15, 2014

Features·Russia

An English parliament: the only way to save the UK

The injustices of devolution will be even more pronounced if the Smith Commission’s proposals are adopted. The constitution needs reworking

December 15, 2014

Features·UK Politics

Don’t Listen to Britain’s Designer Demagogues

Owen Jones and Russell Brand peddle an anti-establishment world view that powerful secret cadres are in charge and getting away with murder

December 15, 2014

Features·UK Politics

The Great Betrayal: How Liberals Appease Islam

The Left is paying a heavy price for its cowardice towards Islamist fascism. The state is demanding new powers to deal with the threat

December 15, 2014

Features·Politics

Better a Thick Skin than a Troll-Finder General

Online speech is over-regulated. The police have better things to do than round up those who say offensive or insulting things on social media

December 15, 2014

Features·UK Politics

The Har Nof Massacre: How Jewish Life Carries On

When Palestinians killed five people at a synagogue in the Jerusalem suburb where my son lives, the response was admirably restrained

December 15, 2014

Features·Israel

How the Nazis Lost the War on the West

Three refugees saw the Third Reich as the enemy of civilisation. Today we can learn from their example

December 15, 2014

Critique·Literature

My Meeting with the Byron of Our Times

Like the poet, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a dashing man of action and letters and a hero to the Greeks for his wartime exploits in Crete

December 15, 2014

Features·Literature

Why The World Still Loves Shakespeare

The great endurance of the Bard

December 15, 2014

Uncategorized

Monarchy Without Kings

For anyone interested in the founding of the American Republic this work is indispensable reading

December 15, 2014

Books·History

A Very Modern Preservationist

In the last year there has been a great Nairn revival - I would have loved to buy him a pint and hear him speak unpretentiously about his love of architecture

December 15, 2014

Architecture·Books