Standpoint

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Standpoint

description Political magazine
Area of ​​Expertise politics
language English
First edition 2008
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Edward Lucas
Web link standpointmag.co.uk
ISSN (print) 1757-1111

Standpoint is a monthly British consumer magazine of politics and culture. The first edition was published in June 2008. The magazine is based in London .

History and direction

The magazine was founded in 2008 by Daniel Johnson, a former journalist for the Daily Telegraph . The first print edition contained an interview with the Catholic Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali who commented on the question of the Christian identity of Great Britain. The interview was controversial and attracted Standpoint a lot of attention right from the start.

Funding for the launch of the magazine was provided by the market-liberal think tank Institute of Economic Affairs .

Johnson defined the journalistic line of the magazine as the “promotion and defense of Western values” against their “enemies from within and without”. The aim is to strengthen liberal democracy , the market economy, human rights and the dignity of the individual. These issues are not necessarily “right”; Standpoint should therefore also be open to those left voices who have become politically homeless, "since the left no longer advocates Western values". The magazine is seen as an intellectual organ with a conservative orientation and thus represents a counterpart to the left-liberal magazine Prospect in the British media landscape .

In contrast to the traditional paper of the British conservative intelligentsia, the weekly magazine The Spectator , a more international, transatlantic- pro-American line is pursued and a combative, provocative style is plowed. The editor-in-chief Edward Lucas, who has been in office since 2019, stated: "We fight vigorously in the Kulturkampf, mix polemics and ridicule and are very happy to trigger people".

Authors of the journal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Against the British Zeitgeist Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 27, 2008, accessed on February 21, 2020
  2. ↑ Can 'Prospect' and 'Standpoint' be the best of enemies? The Independent , April 20, 2008, accessed February 21, 2020
  3. ↑ The Londoner: Right wing mag ready to relaunch Evening Standard , August 29, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020