Social Affairs
Party Lines
What to do about Granny? Daisy Waugh eavesdrops
The Road to Death On Demand
Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a radically libertarian society at the expense of a humane one
Should Baby Boomers Feel the Pinch?
The Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary David Willetts discusses the legacy of the post-war generation with the senior Labour MP Frank Field and Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint
I Vow to Thee
Marriage should be celebrated as a triumph of individual optimism over institutionalised cynicism
A Reader’s Guide to Thatcherism
As anti-Thatcher literature blossomed in the 1980s, it was tempting to argue that the Right had won the economic war and the Left had won the cultural war. But the real victors of the past 30 years are blaring populists, ignorant and proud of it.
‘This Society is Not Secular’
The new Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, tells Daniel Johnson about his vision of English Catholicism
Soppy Sop
Our justice system suffers from a sentimental preoccupation with legally irrelevant testimony to victims’ personalities
The Price of Cameron’s Compassion
The Tory leader’s Big Society speech promises a revolution. But have we been here before?
Tale of Two Cities
My time teaching disaffected youths showed me we have a lot to learn about gang culture
In League With the Extreme Right?
The leaders of a new anti-Islamist group insist they aren’t racist or BNP members
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal