MANCHESTER SQUARE
April 2016
"For eight years, Standpoint has tried to offer terra firma from which to observe our unfolding planetary drama"
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March 2016
'For Continentals, borders are a deadly serious matter'
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January/February 2016
"The new Islamist Terror of the 21st century has so far exacted a global death toll at least in the hundreds of thousands, most of them civilians."
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December 2015
"How much havoc do the jihadis have to wreak before Europe and America resolve to tackle the source of the evil?"
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Manchester Square
Manchester Square is Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson's monthly editorial, named after Standpoint's London location.
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