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July/August 2011

Despite my revelations in Standpoint about the sinister motives of the Hamburg tycoon and Oxford benefactor Alfred Toepfer, the "greywashing" of the crimes of Nazi Germany continues
During the years after the Second World War, the nations of the victors and the vanquished concentrated on rebuilding their economic and political infrastructures. They did too little to bring the Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust and their accomplices to account. In large part, regrets for the murder of some six million Jews were crocodile tears. Europe continues to suffer today from this failure to rebuild the moral foundations of our civilisation.
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Online Only: A Quiet Revolution of the Heart
ANNA HALPINE
The three million young pilgrims attending World Youth Day this year are just one part of a radical Catholic movement begun by John Paul II and developed by Pope Benedict
Still Haunted by the Ghost of Mao
JONATHAN MIRSKY
Despite China's prosperity, the People's Republic remains in the grip of the monstrous ideology of its founder
China's Downtrodden Sunflower Seeds
GEORGE WALDEN
Despite Ai Weiwei's release on bail, we should expect no relaxation in the Communist Party's repression of intellectual freedom
 
The Lost Art Of Old England
JAMES HANNAM
For a thousand years, until the Reformation swept away the cult of saints, relics were as English as roast beef, inspiring an entire artistic tradition
Bloomsbury's Teenage Terrorist
LESLEY CHAMBERLAIN
What drives young men to be violent? The case of David Garnett, later darling of literary London, anticipated today's extremists
What Happens When The Band Stops Playing?
NORMAN LEBRECHT
Around the world, symphony orchestras are threatened as public subsidies dry up. But great cities need them more than ever
NIGEL BIGGAR AND PETER SINGER
The Australian philosopher Peter Singer and the Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar discusses genocide, infanticide, euthanasia, animal rights and God with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson