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Philosophy and Prostate Cancer
Is the knowledge of cancer worse than the cancer itself?
The Chief Whip And The Man In The Mask
Mariella Novotny’s part in the Profumo affair was just one episode in a strange and secretive life
What Would Escoffier Say?
French cuisine is in the soup. What is to be done?
The New Normal
The questions posed by the financial crisis remain unanswered
Robinson’s Exit
The former EDL leader has taken responsibility for his followers’ extremism. Will his former allies do the same?
Prospect’s Far-Right Friend
The magazine’s latest issue, out today, features an advert for a book by a BNP blogger that we at Standpoint refused to publish
Jesse Norman and Plagiarism: A Response
The MP’s suggestion that I had stolen from his pamphlet rankled. I did nothing of the sort.
‘Obama Watching’
Andrew Roberts’s US dispatches are available as an ebook
Letter from Ukraine: Reviving Lost Literature
Chernovtsy’s literary festival is an unexpected way for residents to connect with the Ukrainian city’s lost past
Friends of Russia or Friends of Putin?
BY JULIA PETTENGILL
The recently-established lobby group Conservative Friends of Russia (CFOR) is doing little to dispel suspicions that its sympathies lie with the Russian government.
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts