AV: A Motherless Child
Next year's referendum on the alternative vote is meant to be the pivot on which the coalition government will swivel. The thinking runs that
Do We Need a Cultural Olympiad?
Standpoint readers might be interested in this forthcoming event. The details are all below The New Culture ForumInvites you to hearRuth MackenzieDirector of the
A Moot Point
If Lady Hale is right, the Supreme Court did not allow an appeal by the Ministry of Defence this morning after all. There was
Banning Zakir Naik
On 18 June, the extremist Indian preacher, Zakir Naik, was banned from entering the UK by the Home Secretary. This has drawn criticism from
Paula Rego
Dame Paula Rego claims never to have read Freud — a nice irony given that her psychologically complex works, deeply imbued with the sexual
Bunglawala and Faisal Shahzad betraying Afghans
Over at his new blog Inayat Bunglawala is already tying himself in knots over the guilty plea by failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.
The Honorary Ottoman
Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
A Dangerous Artist to Know
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon