Gerald Jacobs
Piecing it together
Although Howard Jacobson’s latest novel is vastly unlike his previous comic works, it just may be his masterpiece
Kicking the Football Habit
With the community-based bond between football clubs and their fans having long since disintegrated, why do the fans of hopeless teams remain addicted?
Operatic Passions
High Court Judges may not like it but The Jeremy Kyle show has a consistent underlying morality
The West slumbers as its enemies run amok
Profound weaknesses leave us open to political warfare from Russia and China—weaknesses which they are ruthlessly exploiting
Routed by liberalism
How usury killed Christendom
Offences and defences
‘Standpoint is, as it has always been, a magazine for small-c conservatives and small-l liberals. But it is also for small-s socialists and small-g greens, and for those who resist pigeonholing on principle’