Men From the Ministry
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary — Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities by Douglas Hurd
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Political Classes
‘American academia is being swamped by the backwaters of identity politics’
Desperately Needing Susan
The Royal Institution has made a huge mistake by sacking its media-friendly director
Six of the Best
A list of recommendations that no chess library should be without
Palestine’s Tragedy
The recent Israeli Apartheid Week shamefully neglected Zionism's complaisance to peaceful co-existence
Bring On the Bugs
Is one solution to our current financial quagmire to chow-down on creepy-crawlies?
Palestine’s Tragedy
The recent Israeli Apartheid Week shamefully neglected Zionism's complaisance to peaceful co-existence
Is the Party Really Over for Labour?
Andrew Rawnsley, the author of the investigative bestseller about the Blair-Brown years, looks forward to the General Election with Standpoint's columnist Nick Cohen and the Editor, Daniel Johnson
All to Play For as Cameron Wobbles
For two years, a Conservative victory looked to be a done deal — then the polls narrowed. Are the voters having second thoughts?
Genius — Or Just Damned Hard Work?
Is chess genius a matter of genes, or of graft? The greatest chess players are usually described as “geniuses”. It’s a convenient term — but does anyone know what it means? Where
Bad Case of Botulism
‘This is a cautionary tale about a deception so delicious yet so serious that it causes us to reconsider the impact of the public intellectual on our culture’
Should Baby Boomers Feel the Pinch?
The Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary David Willetts discusses the legacy of the post-war generation with the senior Labour MP Frank Field and Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint