Marina Gerner
What’s in a word?
“Without a way of visualising and recording our spoken words, our world would not be the same”
City where history is still being made
‘The last time we were in Kiev together, I was a toddler and my mother a young painter with dissident views’
Wholesome homes are better for all of us
The structures where we spend most of our time affect every aspect of our lives. But too little is being done to make them healthier for all
Viennese rooms with a point of view
The salons of Vienna were key spaces for promoting the emancipation of women and Jews
New way to tell a terrible story
New graphic novels take on difficult subject matter: the lives of Hannah Arendt and Anne Frank
Tunnel vision
The original designs of the Thames Tunnel were auctioned at Bonhams in London for £200,000 in November
Ironies Of Ideology
The RA’s Russia show offers a sobering counterpoint to the naivety of Western communists
A Diaspora Of Pain And Joy
The tale of two Jewish familes in Baghdad and Budapest
Golden Gogol
Gogol’s The Nose is mesmerisingly surreal
Clearing The Fog Of War
Tim Judah’s In Wartime provides a first-hand picture of what is happening on the ground in Ukraine
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics