Social Affairs | Standpoint Magazine

Don’t Pit Generations Against Each Other

Whatever the economic inequalities between baby boomers and millennials, there has never been a better time to be young

March 22, 2016

Economy·Features·Modern Life·Social Affairs

No More Room for an Inn?

Mourning the passing of the pub

December 12, 2014

Culture & Anarchy·Social Affairs

Gross Indecency

It is not right for David Marquand to claim that British society has capitalism has humiliated Britain

June 24, 2014

Counterpoints·Social Affairs

ONLINE ONLY: A Lost Way of Life

Adam Nicolson's Gentry is a superb survey of the 600-year rise and fall of a class of landed Englishmen

June 4, 2013

Books·History·Social Affairs

Window Brothels Get the Red Light

The experiment is over. After 12 years of legalised prostitution organised crime in Amsterdam has risen, not fallen.

September 25, 2012

Dispatches·Social Affairs

Taking a Liberty

The financial crisis has produced a new wave of young libertarians but these radicals champion freedom over and above virtue

September 25, 2012

Counterpoints·Philosophy·Politics·Social Affairs

Our Island Stories

A new book by Harry Mount attributes the particular, phlegmatic character of the English to the nature of England itself

April 24, 2012

Books·History·Social Affairs

Charles Murray

David Green says the most vilified of American sociologists has emerged as one of the great champions of liberty, while his analysis of the underclass has been vindicated by events

December 19, 2011

Social Affairs·Underrated

After the Sea of Faith Withdraws

The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change by S.J.D. Green

March 28, 2011

Books·Literature·Social Affairs·The Church of England

Johannesburg: Hard Pressed

'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom

August 23, 2010

Africa·Dispatches·Social Affairs

Bahrain: Women Drivers Welcome Here

'Hadija laughs as she describes how Saudi women, once over the bridge connecting Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, elbow their husbands out of the driving seat to take command of the wheel.'

June 22, 2010

Dispatches·Faith·Gender·Islam·Middle East·Social Affairs

Not In My Name

Outdated procedures make banks unfriendly places for married, working women

June 22, 2010

Counterpoints·Social Affairs