May 2012 Archives - Standpoint

Issue: May 2012

The inside story of how Nick Clegg and his allies ruthlessly organise their opposition to repatriating powers to the UK

Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

Couples don’t take their wedding vows seriously when they can get out of matrimony more easily than their mortgage

Michael Nazir-Ali

It may seem like the French belletrist is a dying breed, but the modern-day public intellectual has always been something of a myth

Jeremy Jennings

Liberals don’t want the state to privilege heterosexual marriage—but gays and other sexual radicals want public recognition too

John Haldane

From beneath Berlin's streets archeaologists have unearthed a reminder of Nazi oppression

Karen Horn

The US administration’s assault on religious freedom is just part of its wider attack on the institutions of civil society

George Weigel

As dissenters are labelled bigots and homophobes in the same-sex marriage debate; has Britain become too intolerant for free speech?

Piers Paul Read

From Havana to Kigali, cricket's good-news stories can be found in the least likely places

Oliver Wiseman

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

Roger Scruton

Final orders called at London Metropolitan. How far will a university go to mollify an intolerant minority?

Brian O'Flann

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