November 7, 2026

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Reporting from Standpoint correspondents in Rome, Kiev, New York, the Caucasus and elsewhere. Writing from the place, by someone who went.

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Islam and Innocence: Canada’s Predicament

Despite the attack on the Ottawa parliament, Canada has still not woken up to the global scale of the Islamist threat

November 25, 2014

Dispatches·Islam

The Kurds: Israel’s not so Improbable Allies

The secret relationship of Israel and the Kurds

September 24, 2014

Dispatches·Israel

The Isles are Full of Big Noises

The Orkney islanders have their doubts about Scottish independence

August 27, 2014

Dispatches·Scotland

Strangers in their own Holy Land

The embattled Christian communities in Bethlehem and Nazareth

June 24, 2014

Dispatches·International

Two Generations Lost to Communism

50 years of Communism have left Cuba poorer than ever

May 28, 2014

Communism·Dispatches

This Expat Paradise is a Woman’s Nightmare

Dubai may be a popular holiday destination but it is also a human rights quagmire for women

May 28, 2014

Dispatches·Gender

The Russians Are Coming

'Like everyone else in Kiev my friend has been having nightmares'

March 24, 2014

Dispatches·Eastern Europe

Hunting the Lynx with the Old Believers

'The first who came to Tuva had come in search of Belovode: a mythical Russian utopia that peasants believed existed out in Siberia'

December 17, 2013

Dispatches·Russia

Cold Comfort On Global Warming

'The main action in Warsaw was to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, but the disagreements are longstanding, fundamental and intractable'

December 17, 2013

Dispatches

The Rise and Rise of Marine Le Pen

'Ever since its creation in 1972 the Front National has baffled commentators. No one seems able to decide what the party stands for or where it came from'

November 25, 2013

Dispatches·France

True Grits

'We drove into Breaux Bridge, “the crawfish capital of the world”, and the place was shrouded in an early dusk: it was hurricane season'

November 25, 2013

Dispatches·Food

From Eastern Europe to the East End

'There is a whole Eastern European city of half a million people in London. More than 80 per cent have arrived since 2004. It is a city working in basic jobs, with

October 29, 2013

Dispatches·Immigration·UK Politics

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