March 2020 | Standpoint Magazine

Dress sense

‘My own red carpet days have long since mutated into brown lino nights, but looking back at the times I borrowed a designer frock for a nomination, I usually spent the evening

March 25, 2020

Magazine·With Prejudice

Infectious enthusiasms

Hard times on stage—and off it

March 25, 2020

Theatre

A breath of fresh paint

A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture

March 25, 2020

Art·Drawing Board

A boy’s own adventure

Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue

March 25, 2020

Art·Drawing Board

Well-tempered tones

A celebration of Sufi sounds in Rajasthan offers much to treasure

March 25, 2020

Music

Toponymic subjugation

Excessive politeness by Britons is making a mess of place names at home and abroad

March 25, 2020

Features·Magazine

Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left

The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics

March 25, 2020

Features

A hinge in history

The tumult in Kiev 15 years ago seemed a victory for progress and idealism—but the Orange Revolution marked the furthest point of democracy’s advance

March 25, 2020

Features

Robert Conquest: Garland for a Propagandist

The Commissar of Bray: Robert Conquest satirises Communist hackery

March 25, 2020

Poetry·Text

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for “shockers”

March 25, 2020

Critique

Character formation in an age of uncertainty

Developing “character” is a perennial aim in education, but there is little agreement on exactly what it is or how to find it

March 25, 2020

Features

A focus on economic growth is too narrow

The scale of economic inequality across the UK is scandalous. Roads and broadband won’t fix this: strong social infrastructure will

March 25, 2020

Features