Clive’s Indian Summer
Book review of A Point of View by Clive James
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Good Copy
The Independent's new masthead is a little too close to home for Standpoint
ONLINE ONLY: The Israel Scapegoat
Even in the midst of Arab revolt, media outlets around the world — including many in Britain — give credence to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
A Vanished World
Peter Paterson’s engaging memoir evokes an era of Fleet Street camaraderie which has long since disappeared Peter Paterson, the author of an engaging memoir (Much More Of This, Old Boy…? Scenes from
Blowing the BBC’s Gaff
Book review of When One Door Closes by Peter Sissons
Debasing Orwell
An "Orwellian" US-based company, which generates editorial content "without human authoring", highlights the difference between lazy journalism and sinister civil restriction
Sell Off the BBC
It's time to think the unthinkable, and admit that privatising the BBC is a great idea
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’
Speaking Truth Unto the BBC
Charles Moore, one of the BBC's most trenchant critics, discusses its future with its former chairman, Sir Christopher Bland, and the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
Chávez’s Thugs
Chávez's blanket control over the media is highlighted by the armed attack on Globovisión
Denying Israel’s Deniers
The British and Israeli novelists Howard Jacobson and A.B. Yehoshua discuss the new wave of anti-Jewish rhetoric with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson
BBC Kremlin Service
The Foreign Office must realise that cuts at the BBC Russian Service have turned it into an arm of the Kremlin propaganda machine