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Has Britain Found a Role Yet?

The leading historians Professors Norman Stone and Jeremy Black discuss how this country might recover its once unique contribution to Western civilisation with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson

May 21, 2010

Academia·Dialogue·History·Politics·UK Politics·Westminster

Men From the Ministry

Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary — Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities by Douglas Hurd

March 19, 2010

Books·History·UK Politics·Westminster

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

March 19, 2010

Dialogue·UK Politics·Westminster

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

February 18, 2010

Dialogue·Economy·Immigration·Social Affairs·Taxation·UK Politics·Welfare State·Westminster

Will the Tories Give us the Schools We Deserve?

The Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Michael Gove, and the former Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead, discuss the Conservatives’ reform plans with Daniel Johnson, the Editor of

December 16, 2009

Dialogue·Education·UK Politics·Westminster

A Reader’s Guide to Thatcherism

As anti-Thatcher literature blossomed in the 1980s, it was tempting to argue that the Right had won the economic war and the Left had won the cultural war. But the real victors of the past 30 years

December 14, 2009

Critique·Literature·Social Affairs·UK Politics·Westminster

How European are the British?

The writer Piers Paul Read's Catholic vision of the EU confronts the politician David Heathcoat-Amory's Eurosceptic case for Britain as an independent country. The discussion is chaired by Daniel Johnson, the Editor

October 26, 2009

Dialogue·EU·UK Politics·Westminster

Colour Me Angry

As a black Conservative parliamentary candidate, my choice of party is often met with either surprise or sneers “You’re so brave!” is the surprised declaration from people when I, a black woman,

October 23, 2009

Counterpoints·Ethnicity·UK Politics·Westminster

To One War, 55 Marks

This year’s war on expenses is nothing compared to the one started in 1939 – World War II In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes,”

June 24, 2009

Counterpoints·Germany·History·Poland·UK Politics·Westminster

From One Oxymoron to Another

The think-tank Demos has switched from New Labour to ‘Progressive Conservatism’. Philip Blond has journeyed from ‘Radical Orthodoxy’ to ‘Red Toryism’. Now the two have joined forces and both Right and Left

April 3, 2009

Counterpoints·The Church of England·UK Politics·Westminster

Healey’s Bully Pulpit is Worth Revisiting

The memoirs of one of our most able and most cultivated politicians provide a useful reminder of the virtues of ordinary politics

October 24, 2008

Communism·Critique·Europe·History·Literature·Military·Politics·UK Politics·Westminster

The Politics of Climate Change

Former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson challenges David Cameron’s Conservatives, represented by the party’s policy chief Oliver Letwin, to break with the consensus on global warming. Their discussion is chaired by Standpoint editor

June 24, 2008

Dialogue·Energy·Environment·International·UK Politics·Westminster

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