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Ethnicity
‘Turkey's membership would mean a European Union bordering on Iraq and Syria’
Melanie McDonagh

‘In the struggle against terrorism, is our foreign policy an aggravating factor? Yes, in that anything we do aggravates them’

Douglas Murray

New York: A Cousin in the White House

US Election Week diary: New Yorkers and their attitudes towards the new president

Louis Amis

Exotic Stew
The China Lover by Ian Buruma
Anthony Thwaite

Booby Prize
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Jonathan Foreman

A Norwegian Thatcher?
The leader of Norway's Progress Party, Siv Jensen, has a good chance of winning next year's election. In an interview with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, she explains her views; Bruce Bawer explains the background to her meteoric career
Siv Jensen and Bruce Bawer

ONLINE ONLY: The Great Divide
The deadliest but least understood Middle Eastern faultline is between Sunni and Shia
Lee Smith

Through a Glass Darkly
Black and white supporters of Barack Obama are voting for very different presidents
Mark Falcoff

Saving the Pagans of Pakistan
This month's small charity making a big difference is the Hindu Kush Conservation Association
Jonathan Foreman

Darfur: Panic at the Palace
Rarely have expectations and realistic possibilities been so ill-matched as in Sudan
Justin Marozzi

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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