The neoconservative strain of thought has not been given a fair crack of the whip
FFS!
What constitutes a fair crack, then after dominating the economic policies of the UK (to utterly disastrous effect), privatising all and sundry, foreign policy included, waging war for money, squashing dissenting voices, and generally imposing illiberalism upon our poor country?

I’m not sure that Marr or Cohen count as “left” either – Marr’s stint as political editor of the Economist seems to have moulded his current views far more than his youthful trotskyism, and Cohen’s position these days seems to be that he thinks he’s on the left while opposing pretty well anything that leftists stand for, on principle.

Field, Cohen, Phillips, Gove? What a coterie of well-known berks. What’s Tom Stoppard doing there? Is he a berk too?

‘Never trust a youthful Trot’ sounds like a good maxim generally. If you’re willing to believe rubbish once, you’re willing to believe rubbish again and again. After all, if you can’t develop critical faculties and bullshit filters when you’re young, when can you?

STANDPOINT is mostly drivel — and it is hardly ‘centre-right’. It is hard right, and virulently anti-ecological. It is the kind of magazine that has been so important in the U.S. ‘conservative revolution’.
We need a movement of thinktanks and magazines of our own, if we on the green-left are to have any chance of bettering (or indeed, saving from self-destruction) human civilisation. This will mean a lot of us who have money putting that money into this movement. Without such self-sacrifice from the likes of us, we are politically doomed, despite events such as the current recession which overwhelmingly show why what we are saying is right.

Standpoint conveys confidence and moral purpose, and carries some of the best writing on sale in Britain

Most of the writing is available online and disproves this claim. The writing is, in general, woeful. A victory of ideology over intellectual rigour.

The article make rather contradicts the headline, doesn’t it. I mean it answers its own question in a way you lot gleefully ignore. Of course it won’t fail or close, the owner can fund it as vanity publishing.

In defence of Nick Cohen…

“I’m not sure that Marr or Cohen count as “left” either … Cohen’s position these days seems to be that he thinks he’s on the left while opposing pretty well anything that leftists stand for, on principle.”

Andrew – I think Nick’s point is that some on the left are not standing for anything on principle! Personally, I reckon he’s onto something. Nick Cohen has pinpointed the moral failure of many on the left and called them on it.

How does Nick Cohen differ from a neo con?….

Yes the same old hooligans trying to justify their cultural wrecking project in prettified words.

Drivel all the way down!

“But should Bekhor’s generosity diminish in the near future, or subscriptions fail to pick up, a crowded market may soon stand athwart Johnson, yelling Stop!”

Market forces? Dear god, they must be stopped. How soon until someone on here writes a proposal for a £5bn stimulus package to bail out this magazine? Or do we only do this for publications Toynbee likes…?