Standpoint Magazine
Captive nations and other inmates
The Chinese Communist Party wants to control the diaspora and suppress foreign criticism. Mongolians, Tibetans and Uighurs are not only silenced inside Xi Jinping’s empire, but abroad
Letters: jokes missed; sustainable seas; a Senate for the UK
Andrew Doyle explains why Nick Cohen just doesn’t get his jokes; Rowan Williams and Irene Lancaster on antisemitism; sustainable sea farming; and Frank Field on why the UK needs a Senate
Letters: confronting antisemitism; trans athletes; immigration and the hostile environment
Frederic Raphael on antisemitism; why trans women athletes hardly ever win; legal language and immigration
Letters: David Goodhart is wrong — and so is Peter Hitchens
“It is not just lack of resources which places the burden of proof on migrants, but the law — and that law lies at the basis of Home Office decision-making”
Letters: Misreading Cameron, Farming in the balance, Cathedrals and castles
Did Simon Heffer misread Cameron? Plus: a farmer responds to Lisbet Rausing
Contributors
Contributors for the September/October issue of Standpoint
Letters
‘It is a common trap to believe that under the Prime Minister’s Etonian brio lie liberal convictions. Experience suggests otherwise. The only thing Johnson consistently stands up for is himself, and on that, he has indeed never compromised’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts