Drawing A Line
How did a cartoonist who regularly draws Mohammed feel on hearing about the events in Paris?
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Auteur Provocateur
Michel Houllebecq's Soumission is provocative but treads familiar territory
Back to the Feelgood Sitcom
The comedy of self-recognition invites us to laugh gently at ourselves, rather than despise others
At My Wit’s End
"The wittiest writer alive" finds it hard to live up to his title
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
Bringing the House Down
The playwright Simon Gray died on August 7. Shortly before his death he shared his thoughts on the theatre and much else in a Standpoint Dialogue with The Daily Telegraph's theatre critic