Mark Gullick
Sea View
“Buy land,” Mark Twain famously advised. “They’ve stopped making it.” A century after Twain’s death, according to an organisation called the Seasteading Institute (SI), production is resumed.
“Seasteading” is a 30-year-old portmanteau word combining homesteading with the unused resource provided by the oceans: the building of small offshore cities planned outside the jurisdiction of any nation state. The idea originated with Ken Neumeyer in his 1981 book, Sailing the Farm, and SI intends to bring the phrase to life by the end of this decade.
Walking the Plank
The government’s hypocrisy over “green issues” is forcing those living on our waterways out of their homes
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’