September 2019 | Standpoint Magazine

Contributors

Ross Babbage served for 16 years in Australian government positions. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington DC. Joan Bakewell is a

September 19, 2019

Contributors

Emma Sergeant: Studies in untruth

Revealing how portraiture scares subjects who would prefer to be photo-shopped

September 18, 2019

Drawing Board

A reckoning for justice

Thomas Grant's "Court Number One" reveals the changing values of the society which the criminal justice system ultimately exists to enforce

September 18, 2019

Books

Charlie Chaplin à la Française

Louis de Funès may be France’s most beloved actor. The choice tells us a lot about those who love him

September 18, 2019

Film

Emulation and evisceration

Noel Malcolm tells the story of western intellectual fascination with the Ottoman empire from the fall of Constantinople in 1453

September 18, 2019

Books

An island that has forgotten the art of the backroom deal

‘Since the referendum, the attitude of the Irish government to the result—contemptuous, disbelieving, disrespectful—has grated. Leo Varadkar, a conformist individual, was in office at just the time when a fixer was what

September 18, 2019

Guest Speaker

Cast off the shackles of Empire victimhood

Blaming modern woes on past empires stokes infantilisation—condescension is colonialism’s last legacy. I’m proud of my CBE

September 18, 2019

Features

Criminal justice chaos

'The problems that plague the criminal justice system are not rooted in an imagined “Leftist” criminal justice culture; they spring directly from the near-obliteration of the justice system by budget cuts of

September 18, 2019

Jurisprudence·Wig & pen