The Healing Power of Forgiveness
A new project allows crime victims to move on — by pardoning those who attacked them
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
London and the Fornicating ’50s
Capital Affairs: The Making of Permissive Society by Frank Mort
Dissing the Disabled
Legislation to protect people from disability hate crime will never solve the whole problem; we need to believe in the spirit of the law
Should Baby Boomers Feel the Pinch?
The Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary David Willetts discusses the legacy of the post-war generation with the senior Labour MP Frank Field and Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint
I Vow to Thee
Marriage should be celebrated as a triumph of individual optimism over institutionalised cynicism
A Reader’s Guide to Thatcherism
As anti-Thatcher literature blossomed in the 1980s, it was tempting to argue that the Right had won the economic war and the Left had won the cultural war. But the real victors of the past 30 years
Equally Incoherent
The Left is resurgent in the Labour Party, but its egalitarian agenda is utterly inconsistent
A Veil of Silence Over Murder
Here in Britain, and all over the world, men are killing women on a point of 'honour'. Why do we tolerate the intolerable?
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
Morality and Public Space
The Western democratic state depends on a public space that is free, peaceful, and equally accessible to every citizen. How far can we go in shaping the space to meet the demands
Dreams for their Children
The rise of Kenya's middle class offers the country, and the whole continent, hope for the future
A Strange Rush for the Exit
In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic?