A Norwegian Thatcher?
The leader of Norway's Progress Party, Siv Jensen, has a good chance of winning next year's election. In an interview with Standpoint editor Daniel
Africa Has a Dream: Obama
The new president will be welcomed by most ordinary Africans, if not by their rulers
The Terrorist Threat to Business
Luke Johnson, entrepreneur and business commentator, discusses terrorism's growing menace with historian Michael Burleigh and Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson
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.
Where Did the Big Bang Come From?
The story of Georges Lemaître shows how cosmology moves in mysterious ways
Language, Truth and Logos
The analytic philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe was able to reconcile her field with her faith, without "compartmentalising", or compromising either
Criminal Damage to the Law
Six Greenpeace activists were cleared in September of causing £30,000-worth of criminal damage to a coal-fired power station in Kent.
A Cooler Shade of Red
A new museum exhibition of Cold War art leaves the nastiness of the communist system completely unacknowledged