March 2011 Archives - Standpoint

Issue: March 2011

ONLINE ONLY: Iran and the Arab Sandstorm

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will look to take advantage of the instability in the Arab world by changing the Middle East narrative. But will he first have to stem a popular rebellion among his own people?

Jonathan Paris

ONLINE ONLY: An Unserious Man

Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding reveals the Wikileaks founder's facile politics and ignorance of history

David Barrett

ONLINE ONLY: Dust Busting Today’s Gender Myths

On the centenary of International Women's Day, feminist attitudes to gender roles and the pay gap need reevaluating

Nichi Hodgson

ONLINE ONLY: Tackling the Islamist Threat to UK Jews

Reproduced in full — and not yet available via any of the Government or Conservative Party's websites — David Cameron's speech to the Community Security Trust on March 2

David Cameron

ONLINE ONLY: A Key Truth and a Broken Promise

The biased historiography of Channel 4's mini-series The Promise is just one recent example of innumerable and programmatic efforts to demonise Israel

Daniel Eilon

Party Lines

Our columnist listens in on the Great Education Debate

Daisy Waugh

Underrated: Willa Cather

Willa Cather, the modest Midwest American author and admirer of Flaubert, merits her place among the literary greats

Joseph Epstein

Overrated: Gustave Flaubert

The French aesthete is hardly deserving of acolytic praise, such was his emphasis on style over substance

Joseph Epstein

An Awfully British Medium

The subtleties of watercolour reflect the national character—and it’s still going strong

Michael Prodger

Murder Most Mundane

British crime drama should emulate a Danish series as good as anything from America

Nick Cohen

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