Counterpoints
A squarer mile
For better or worse, that City has undergone a revolution. Its old guard has been seen off, or paid off
Foie Gove
Michael Gove’s plan to ban foie gras is an essentially frivolous self-advertisement
Jam tomorrow
“We do so love a literary rejection, provided it isn’t our own, of course.”
The new normal
“Now nobody, it seems, wants to be seen as normal: not even normal people. But I do. All my life I’ve craved normality and never quite managed it”
Closed Minds
“In Britain’s universities, there is no incendiary debate on Brexit, merely a stunned lack of comprehension and the blithe assumption that all we “nice” people voted to remain”
Mañana, mañana
“Beyoncé got involved in youth voter registration — you could sign up at her concerts — because apparently, without the world’s most famous pop star yelling at us, millennials cannot fill out a life-defining form”
BOGOF, Nanny
“The proposed sugar tax and a prospective ban on BOGOFs — supermarket buy-one, get-one-free offers — are perfect examples of how muddled thinking leads to the busybody interference of the Nanny State”
The art of faking it
On Instagram, there’s nothing cooler than corporate sponsorship — so aspiring influencers are now creating fake sponsored content
Smack down
Has anti-smacking advocacy gone too far?
Little Britain
Miniature paintings suit the modern world — we live in a miniaturised world
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’