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Issue: September/October 2019
Contributors
Contributors for the September/October issue of Standpoint
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Counterpoints
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'
Standpoint Magazine
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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
Marketplace
Emma Sergeant: Studies in untruth
Revealing how portraiture scares subjects who would prefer to be photo-shopped
Emma Sergeant
Drawing Board
Taking off
A Brexit poem by Liz Lefroy
Liz Lefroy
Text
Underrated: Bernard Bolzano
The little-known Bolzano formed remarkably modern conceptions of logical truth and probability
Peter Simons
Underrated
Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Austrian philosopher and 20th-century genius disabled others and inspired decades of needless self-destruction among his disciples
Crispin Sartwell
Overrated
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
With Prejudice
Levelling the playing field
Questioning the status of history’s ‘most dangerous’ spy
Clovis Meath Baker
Books
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
Books
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board
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