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Regular voices from Standpoint, including Westminster, Politics and Open Season.

Hayek Top Slot Shock

In spite of his reputation, Glenn Beck is introducing huge audiences to high-brow political and economic ideas Television exposure can turn an unheard-of and undeserving book into a bestseller. But could even

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Economy·Philosophy·Politics

Adieu to Claret

The spiralling cost of Bordeaux means the wine will soon be the preserve of millionaires and wine journalists alone

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Economy·Food

Come Back, Trollope

Westminster's current inhabitants are perfect fodder for a great political satirist, if only we had one

August 24, 2010

Counterpoints·Literature·UK Politics·Westminster

Bent’s Beautiful Mistress

The Magnus Carlsen phenomenon has a precedent: that of the marauding Viking, Bent Larsen

August 24, 2010

Chess

Journo Listless

‘The image of the newspaperman as a suave but ballsy individual who, whisky in hand, wires copy to a smoke-filled newsroom is now incredibly remote’

August 24, 2010

European Eye·Media·North America

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work

August 23, 2010

Cosmos·History·Science

The Misfit at No 10

State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler

August 23, 2010

Books·Literature·UK Politics·Westminster

A Tale of Two Presidents

'In the Old World, a leader is criticised — and quits — for being too emotional. In the New World, a leader is criticised for not being emotional enough'

June 22, 2010

European Eye·Germany·Obama·Politics·US Politics

Let My Pieces Sing

'Perhaps it was Philidor's prodigious musical intuition that somehow gave him a special insight into how the chess pieces should be harmonised'

June 22, 2010

Chess

Life, Synthia, But Not as we Know It

The latest work on synthetic cell creation by Craig Venter raises serious questions about bioethics

June 22, 2010

Cosmos·Science·Technology

Here’s How Schools are Set Free, Mr Gove

The new Education Secretary's anti-statist revolution must live up to his rhetoric by allowing schools to set their own admissions policies

June 22, 2010

Education·Features·Westminster

Can the Atlantic Coalition Hold?

William Kristol, founder-editor of the leading American conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, and Tim Montgomerie, founder-editor of the ConservativeHome website, discuss the similar problems facing the US and Britain with Standpoint Editor

June 22, 2010

Academia·Dialogue·North America·Obama·Philosophy·Politics·UK Politics·US Politics·Westminster

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