Smack down
Has anti-smacking advocacy gone too far?
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Little Britain
Miniature paintings suit the modern world — we live in a miniaturised world
Glorious food
The characters in Dickens's novels have voracious appetites — but how did Dickens dine?
Peer review
There's nothing to stop us bringing back hereditary peerages — reflecting lifetimes of success rather than political cronyism
Farewell to arms
The Army is short of new recruits, but retention of personnel is a much bigger problem
Going backward
'My particular bugbear is that inherently redundant phrase “forward planning”. Ever tried ‘backward planning’?'
City where history is still being made
'The last time we were in Kiev together, I was a toddler and my mother a young painter with dissident views'
The tricky business of gender identity
What lies behind the troubling rise in gender dysphoria among teenagers? And should we separate the “T” from LGBT?
The ticking timebomb of internet porn
It may be time for the government to consider an all-out ban on online pornography, or at the very least health warnings on hardcore websites
A distinctive melody in the melodrama of our time
Our founding editor looks back on a decade in which Standpoint sought to uphold the highest political and cultural values
Jolly Bad Taste vs. feeble Good Taste
Sir Les Patterson or Poundbury, Roy Wood or Richard Rogers, dodgy clubs or lusty yeomen?
The girlhood of Philip Larkin
The key to the poet’s early obsession with girls’-school stories may lie with his sister Kitty