January/February 2012/£4.50/Issue 39 www.standpointmag.co.uk

Cameron’s Olympian challenge The Prime Minister’s veto was a European game-changer for Britain, says Iain Martin

Amir Taheri: Arab winter of discontent Miriam Gross: Stalin’s darling daughter Jonathan Sacks: Why faith matters

Piers Paul Read/Robert Conquest/Michael Cockerell/Paul Johnson/Hephzibah Anderson Lionel Shriver/Patrick Heren/Julie Bindel/Anne McElvoy/Andrew Roberts/Anthony Loyd George Walden/Douglas Murray/Katharine Birbalsingh/Nick Cohen/Alan Brownjohn Noel Malcolm/Eric Ormsby/Daisy Waugh/Dominic Lawson/Simon Heffer/Peter Whittle