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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

An autumn note
“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”
Andreas Campomar

An ordinary killing
Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles
Chris Mullin

Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn
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