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Thursday 29 July 2010 Home
Tim Black
Why more and more people feel ‘mentally ill’
Yes, the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM is mad, labelling even shyness a disorder. But it didn’t create today’s therapy culture.
Brendan O’Neill
Hans Blix’s Stalinist rewriting of history
Far from being anti-war heroes, UN weapons inspectors paved the way for the bombing of the ‘bastards’ and ‘moral lepers’ of Iraq.

David Bowden
Plonking the Amish on a London estate
Amish: World’s Squarest Teenagers provides an enlightening and upbeat insight into teenage life.

Rob Lyons
We need more Hurricanes in modern-day sport
Alex Higgins stood out in an era when sportsmen tend to have every crease of personality ironed out of them.

Wednesday 28 July 2010
Wendy Kaminer
Even grotesque fantasies should not be criminalised
Of course child sexual abuse is a heinous crime that should be punished. But fantasising about child sexual abuse should not be.

Rob Lyons
The speed-cam debate: calm down, dears!
Speed cameras are neither scarily Orwellian devices nor the saviours of pedestrians from rampaging motorists.

Kevin Rooney
The backwardness of Catholic-bashing
Far from being enlightened, the attacks on Catholicism ahead of the pope’s UK visit are illiberal, censorious and ignorant.

Tuesday 27 July 2010
Brendan O’Neill
The Afghan War leaks don’t tell us The Truth
Journalists’ increasing reliance on leaks is turning them into passive recipients of information rather than active seekers of truth.

Nathalie Rothschild
Don’t cancel Love
Parade – make it better

The deaths of 20 revellers is a terrible tragedy, but we shouldn’t respond to such events by putting life on hold.

Patrick Marmion
The purgatory of France’s revolutionary Terror
Danton’s Death at the National Theatre is a thrilling study of how social relations melt into air during revolutions.

Monday 26 July 2010
Tim Black
The Queen of England vs a pantomime fascist
The expulsion of Nick Griffin from a palace garden party shows how desperate the political class is to keep the BNP as their pet bête noire.

Neil Davenport
Why mad inventors don’t survive the Dragons’ Den
The hit BBC show reveals the bean-counting cautiousness and lack of entrepreneurial spirit of today’s capitalists.

David Clements
A Big Society with small ambitions
The jury is out on whether David Cameron’s flagship initiative will really reduce the role of the state in our lives.

Friday 23 July 2010
Nathalie Rothschild
The dangers of international aid
A new book exposes the problems with Third World aid missions, but ends up replacing NGOs’ black-and-white view of Africa with its own.

David Bowden
Tony and Barrie: the queens of family life
C4’s film about the world’s first gay parents was both thought-provoking and tacky at the same time.

Duleep Allirajah
The rise and fall of the cockney Pele
Feted as a youngster, new Liverpool-signing Joe Cole has spent much of his professional career giving the ball away.

Thursday 22 July 2010
Brendan O’Neill
A ‘cycling revolution’? On your bike, Boris
When cyclists are continually told that their mode of transport is saving humanity from doom, it’s no wonder so many of them are annoying pricks.

Tim Black
Electoral reform alone won’t resuscitate politics
In a sweaty Westminster room, Tim Black joined 60 Tories who talked more about how we vote than what we vote for.

Tiffany Jenkins
Stop this asset-stripping in the art world
Museums aren’t businesses and they shouldn’t be selling off their treasures to pay the electricity bill or mend the roof.


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