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Issue: September/October 2019

Contributors
Contributors for the September/October issue of Standpoint
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Letters
'It is a common trap to believe that under the Prime Minister’s Etonian brio lie liberal convictions. Experience suggests otherwise. The only thing Johnson consistently stands up for is himself, and on that, he has indeed never compromised'
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Financial flaws
‘You do not have to be a radical socialist to admit that since the financial crisis capitalism has failed to deliver the goods’
Grace Blakeley

Emma Sergeant: Studies in untruth
Revealing how portraiture scares subjects who would prefer to be photo-shopped
Emma Sergeant

Taking off
A Brexit poem by Liz Lefroy
Liz Lefroy

Underrated: Bernard Bolzano
The little-known Bolzano formed remarkably modern conceptions of logical truth and probability
Peter Simons

Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Austrian philosopher and 20th-century genius disabled others and inspired decades of needless self-destruction among his disciples
Crispin Sartwell

Listening in
‘It’s just with regard to, like, discussion about anti-Semitism . . . well, I just keep thinking one thing. Why is it always them?’
Maureen Lipman

Levelling the playing field
Questioning the status of history’s ‘most dangerous’ spy
Clovis Meath Baker

A reckoning for justice
Thomas Grant's "Court Number One" reveals the changing values of the society which the criminal justice system ultimately exists to enforce
Jonathan Gaisman

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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