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Long Night of the Red Star

Jung Chang and her husband Jon Halliday are leading authorities on Mao, while Simon Sebag Montefiore has published two major works on Stalin. With Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, they discuss the two

June 4, 2008

China·Communism·Dialogue·History·Politics·Russia·The West

As English as Warm Beer

I could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,” Clement Attlee told Winston Churchill in May 1945, “which

May 31, 2008

Constitutional Affairs·Counterpoints·EU·History·Scotland·UK Politics

Beyond Comprehension

The Archbishop of Canterbury, it is said, was very surprised earlier this year by the furious response to his speech about civil and religious law. I am very much surprised that he

May 31, 2008

Counterpoints·Faith·Human Rights·Islam·Political Correctness·The Church of England

Admissions of Innocence

How Labour hates our ancient universities! There they are, acting as though their responsibility were to observe age-old standards and values of higher learning, when in the government’s eyes the proper function

May 31, 2008

Academia·Counterpoints·Education·Political Correctness·UK Politics

Magazine- Page 178

Long Night of the Red Star

As English as Warm Beer

Beyond Comprehension

Admissions of Innocence