Magazine
Dress sense
‘My own red carpet days have long since mutated into brown lino nights, but looking back at the times I borrowed a designer frock for a nomination, I usually spent the evening feeling faintly immoral’
Infectious enthusiasms
Hard times on stage—and off it
A breath of fresh paint
A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture
A boy’s own adventure
Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Well-tempered tones
A celebration of Sufi sounds in Rajasthan offers much to treasure
Robert Conquest: Garland for a Propagandist
The Commissar of Bray: Robert Conquest satirises Communist hackery
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for “shockers”
Toponymic subjugation
Excessive politeness by Britons is making a mess of place names at home and abroad
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
A hinge in history
The tumult in Kiev 15 years ago seemed a victory for progress and idealism—but the Orange Revolution marked the furthest point of democracy’s advance
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