Jerusalem the Golden
Teacher, philanthropist, founder of the Royal College of Music — Sir Hubert Parry was so much more than a composer of England's finest songs
At Home with the Letwins’ Salon
Bill and Shirley Letwin kept open house for open minds from Chicago to Cambridge and Hampstead
Lords of the Prairie
George Catlin both recorded and idealised the vanquished native Indian tribes of North America
Reader Competition: Design the “Civilisation Cocktail”
The winning drink will be served at the inaugural Standpoint salon
Life with Father
Sports-pages-stalwart Roger Mortimer's writing has been resurrected with the publication of letters to his children
What To Do With the Huddled Masses?
David Goodhart's The British Dream isn't a scintillating read, but it is a thoughtful articulation of the UK's changing attitudes to immigration
The Moneybags and the Brains
The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 saw a historic meeting of economists that changed the world forever
Weathering The Storm
Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker is a masterpiece of historical scholarship, but fails entirely in its stated aim of linking political disaster to a