Admissions of Innocence
How Labour hates our ancient universities! There they are, acting as though their responsibility were to observe age-old standards and values of higher learning, when in the government’s eyes the proper function
Family Values
Washing your dirty linen in public is all the rage, at the cost of precious family loyalty What price loyalty? Not very much, it seems, judging by the number of betrayals that
Faking a Killing
The world reacted with horror when it saw a 12-year-old boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers. But the footage, it transpires, told a lie
Imaginary Islamist Think-Tanks
Extremists dub themselves 'Directors' of organisations that exist only in name, and the mainstream media swoons
The British Gas Man Cometh (Not)
Standpoint senior editor Miriam Gross tries seven times in vain to negotiate the hopeless beaurocracy of British Gas’s customer service department Thursday Conversation One. 1.15pm Hello. Welcome to British Gas. Calls are
Writers, Visible and Invisible
Writers are hidden beings, says the winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award
The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls
A major investigator of the Scrolls since their discovery explains why after 60 years they still have not made their full impact on the general public If the proverbial opinion pollster accosted
ONLINE ONLY: A Confrontation in London
Most of us, thankfully, still have relatively little direct experience of violent crime, although everyone but the most sheltered now suffers death by a thousand anti-social cuts, and the implicit threat they
A Girl’s Best Friend
The gemstone traders on London's Hatton Garden have witnessed huge changes in attitudes towards marriage, but diamonds are forever
Uncharitable Act
Britain's claim to be the world's foremost philanthropic nation is under threat under George Osborne's new reforms
Shock Value
For all the Arts community's grandstanding about its political value, none of its number was brave enough to protest the late, great M.F. Husain's plight
Novel Idea
A new online scheme is taking publishing back to its roots, bringing authors closer to their readerships