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The British Gas Man Cometh (Not)

Standpoint senior editor Miriam Gross tries seven times in vain to negotiate the hopeless beaurocracy of British Gas’s customer service department Thursday Conversation One. 1.15pm Hello. Welcome to British Gas. Calls are

November 24, 2008

Dialogue·Energy·Modern Life·Satire

Escalating Etiquette

Britons' behaviour on the London Underground escalators shows the country has not yet lost all its charm and civility

November 3, 2008

Counterpoints·Modern Life·Transport·Urbanism

Is Capitalism Morally Bankrupt?

Samuel Brittan and Edward Hadas, both distinguished economic commentators, discuss where to place the blame for the current global crisis with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson

October 22, 2008

China·Communism·Developing World·Dialogue·Economy·Global Governance·India·International·Modern Life·North America·Philosophy·Politics·The West·Welfare State

ONLINE ONLY: Education It’s Not

‘Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared,’ declared the Reverend Charles Colton almost two centuries ago, ‘for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

August 14, 2008

Academia·Education·Features·Literature·Modern Life·Political Correctness·Social Affairs

Christianity, Secularisation and Islam

In the second in our series on religion and public life, a leading Dominican theologian argues that only a recovery of the Judeo-Christian tradition can enable Islam to find its place in

June 25, 2008

Faith·Features·Heritage·Islam·Judaism·Modern Life·Social Affairs·The Catholic Church·The Church of England

Empire of the Bun

The Hamburger: A History by Josh Ozersky

June 11, 2008

Books·Food·History·Modern Life·North America

ONLINE ONLY: A Confrontation in London

Most of us, thankfully, still have relatively little direct experience of violent crime, although everyone but the most sheltered now suffers death by a thousand anti-social cuts, and the implicit threat they