Articles By Oliver Wiseman
April 2019
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March 2019
The high priest of “gonzo” journalism took pride in making stories up — his legacy should be deplored
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October 2017
The American Left has taken refuge in an intellectual dead end, argues Mark Lilla
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September 2017
Built on misreadings and deceptive elisions, Nancy MacLean's Democracy In Chains reframes the colourful tale of the American Right as a dank, dark conspiracy
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March 2017
The self-aggrandising Speaker has confused the importance of his office with that of its holder
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December/January 2016/17
The anti-politics of Nigel Farage contributed to the referendum result, but it won’t help Theresa May take on Brussels successfully
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October 2016
The record of the former Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister is too easily ridiculed
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July/August 2016
Can the Libertarians break through America's two-party system?
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June 2016
"The referendum on British membership of the European Union will be decided by the Eurosceptic but risk-averse middle chunk of the electorate"
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May 2016
The inside story of the Lib Dems in the coalition government is a brave attempt to explain where it all went wrong
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April 2016
After failing to predict the outcome of the general election, polling companies face a high-stakes challenge to redeem themselves in June
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March 2016
In Sweden, the ongoing migrant crisis means borders are back
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January/February 2016
How UKIP metamorphosed from ex-Tory Eurobores to a political force appealing to all manner of malcontents
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December 2015
The Conservative election victory was surprising — but not to those on the inside of the Tory machine
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November 2015
A visit to the Tom Wolfe papers at the New York Public Library reveals a writer who helps America make sense of itself
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October 2015
The tumultuous day Jeremy Corbyn was crowned Labour leader
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October 2015
What is it like to grow up as the child of a dictator?
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September 2015
Why is security online so hard to achieve? Edward Lucas's Cyberphobia argues that we are more at risk online than we realise
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July/August 2015
What could have been a skewering of our censorious times is merely a missed opportunity
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June 2015
Watching the death throes of Labour on election night in Glasgow
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June 2015
Why London bucked the national trend towards the Tories
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May 2015
Robert Halfon’s campaign for re-election in marginal Harlow may offer solutions to some of the Conservatives’ biggest electoral problems
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April 2015
On the doorsteps of Essex and Glasgow, the reasons why voters are turning to UKIP and the SNP appear remarkably similar
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March 2015
The cartoons and caricatures of "Marc".
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March 2015
How did a cartoonist who regularly draws Mohammed feel on hearing about the events in Paris?
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January/February 2015
Online speech is over-regulated. The police have better things to do than round up those who say offensive or insulting things on social media
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October 2014
John Lanchester's lesson in financial literacy is blighted by his contempt
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October 2014
Memorial to a metropolis
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September 2014
Peter Oborne recounts cricket's progress in Pakistan with the meticulousness and dedication such a rich and unlikely story deserves
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July/August 2014
The epic story of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses is well-deserving of its own biography
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April 2014
The painter refused to call his drawings of disfigured soldiers art. Now they hang in the National Portrait Gallery
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March 2014
The Conservatives have not yet earned back the trust of England’s northern cities. Doing so is the key to winning a majority in 2015
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January/February 2014
Tristram Hunt found Education Under Siege a useful book. It's nothing more than the dying groans of the blob
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November 2013
The questions posed by the financial crisis remain unanswered
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Read about education policy in this Standpoint ebook
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Nick Cohen's Living With Lies is available to download now
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April 2013
In the fast-paced and ever-changing world of technology very few commentators have stopped to examine the business practices of a behemoth like Google
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March 2013
A 108-metre-high Eiffel tower, "Venice Water Town and "Thames Town"? It's the Middle Kingdom's new craze for architectural replicas
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December 2012
In Plutocrats, Chrystia Freeland vividly describes the lives of the very rich, but has little to say when it comes to what should be done about this new elite
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July/August 2012
Dictatorships may not be lumbering behemoths, but William J Dobson overstates the extent to which authoritarians have changed their ways
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May 2012
From Havana to Kigali, cricket's good-news stories can be found in the least likely places
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About Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is Standpoint's Political Editor.
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