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Issue: May 2017

Envoy Sans Pareil
The ambassador of ill-repute, Prince Talleyrand
Jeremy Jennings

Jacks High
In the event that Scotland leaves the Union, we need a cunning plan if we are to retain the UK's flag
Joshua Gelernter

War On Waugh
Have we become so humourless that we've stopped finding Evelyn Waugh funny?
Constance Watson

Mrs May’s Sense Of Direction
"Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election — just before Standpoint went to press — will surely come to be seen as a stroke of genius."
Daniel Johnson

Brexit Deferred, Labour Saved
‘By calling an election three years before it was scheduled, Theresa May has delayed Brexit and saved Labour and the Liberal Democrats’
Michael Mosbacher

The BBC Vs. The Market
‘Addled thinking about the BBC’s status seems to be characteristic of leafy-suburb leftism’
Tim Congdon

The “B” Word
‘Is it too much to suggest that political wisdom may be quite evenly distributed through the population — even among the poor?’
Noel Malcolm

Overreaching Outrage
‘Society’s rewarding of outrage means we are ever less-inclined to give people what we used to call “the benefit of the doubt”’
Douglas Murray

South Bank Oberon
The memoir of the National Theatre's former artistic director is absorbing, insouciant and amusing
Anne McElvoy

A Sense Of Englishness
Eric Ravilious and Henry Moore
Michael Prodger

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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