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Friday 27 January 2012	Home

Issue No.52
January 2012

A history of diet obsession
Why fixating on fatness is a recipe for misery
by Rob Lyons


		Welcome to January’s review Books editor’s note

		The farce of Italian Communism by James Heartfield

		Jeanette Winterson’s fancy misery memoir by Lexy Barber

Who’s afraid of the EDL?

Boris’s mask of eccentricity

What makes the Obamas tick?

Venice: the city of metaphors

Pinker’s biological optimism

Thursday 26 January 2012

Tim Black
Don't lobby the Lords. Demolish it instead
It is unseemly for so-called progressives to bow and scrape before the second chamber, pleading with it to punish the Lib-Cons.

David Bowden
The roots of the riots: found in translation
Forget British TV’s feeble attempts to explain urban disarray - look to Scandinavian drama instead.

Tom Slater
The timeless power of the Bard
Coriolanus won’t tell us much about contemporary politics but it does reveal Shakespeare’s take on the human condition.

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Mick Hume
The Leveson Inquiry is the enemy of a free press
Now it's out: Lord Justice Leveson wants quasi-state regulation - in the name of 'press freedom'.

Rob Lyons
What’s up with the bees?
Two researchers tell spiked that green activists have been a little too keen to blame pesticides for the not-so-great bee die-off.

Ben Pile
Greens to sceptics: show us the money!
The campaign to get a tiny charity to reveal its backers is driven by a desire to stamp out any eco-criticism.

Sally Millard
How about butting out of family life?
With its latest guilt-tripping wheeze, the anti-smoking lobby seems intent on turning our children against us.

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Sean Collins
A political fiasco of historic proportions
Obama is ailing, yet the bunch of political misfits posing as Republican presidential candidates can’t make any mileage from that.

Theresa Clifford
A mega attack on internet freedom
You don’t have to be a fan of the juvenile people behind Megaupload to be worried by the crackdown against it.

Brendan O’Neill
‘This is becoming an
anti-tabloid witch-hunt’
Read the transcript of CBC’s interview with Brendan O’Neill about Leveson, lies and press freedom.

Monday 23 January 2012

Frank Furedi
Message to EU meddlers: Hands off Hungary!
Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers.

Dominic Standish
Riding the waves of a cruise crash
Dominic Standish reports from Italy on how anti-ship agitators are milking the Concordia tragedy.

Nick Thorne
Putting plankton before people
Eco-warriors who campaign against the building of dams are damning the poor to live at nature’s mercy.

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