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September 2008

Standpoint is published monthly by Social Affairs Unit Magazines Limited, a subsidiary of the Social Affairs Unit (Registered Charity No.281530). The views expressed in Standpoint are those of its individual authors, not those of the Social Affairs Unit Magazines Ltd and its Directors or those of the Social Affairs Unit and its Trustees and Director

Counterpoints

Decline and Fall Guys

JAMES ELLIOTT

As Georgia licks its wounds, a morally dubious industry has sprung up to churn out books celebrating the end of American global hegemony

Judges Can be Overruled

JOHN O'SULLIVAN

The EU's Human Rights Act need not be incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty - if the government were to grow a backbone

Infantilification of Us All

NOEL MALCOLM

The verb "pop" comes from the nursery, and its purpose is to put us back there

Let Them Eat Brioches

JONATHAN FOREMAN

The Patisserie Wars are expanding at least as rapidly as the nation's waistbands

Turn Your Gaze to Gaza

DANIEL JOHNSON

By opening its columns to Islamist apologists, Prospect magazine is undermining moderate Muslims

Men Behaving Badly

MIRIAM GROSS

Russian attitudes to sexual harassment may shock us now, but it wasn’t that long ago that customs here were not so very different

A Suez Affair

DAVID KYNASTON

The public and the private are always swirling around, in a fluid, ever-changing relationship