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Friday 18 May 2012 Home
Dolan Cummings
UK cultural policy: using art to divide us
By promoting diversity through culture, UK policymakers have ignored precisely what makes art so valuable: its universality.
David Bowden
It’s not too late
to cross The Bridge

An autistic investigator, a grisly murder, sleek furniture: The Bridge has all you’d expect from Scandi thrillers.

Duleep Allirajah
The end of the
United Empire?

Don’t blame the ‘noisy neighbours’ at City, the real problem for United is they’ve lost their all-conquering aura.

Patrick West
Does it matter if you’re black or white?
The deaths of culture-defying musicians Adam Yauch and Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn are a reminder of music's skin-tone sensitivities.

Thursday 17 May 2012
Josie Appleton
These petty laws are an insult to the public
Yes, let’s get rid of Britain’s mad ban on using ‘insulting’ words. But don’t ignore the rest of the state’s criminalisation of everyday behaviour.

Ben Pile
‘The real enemy is humanity itself’
At Rio+20 next month, the world’s elites will meet in Brazil with the aim of holding back human progress.

Wendy Kaminer
‘I've never seen people smiling so broadly’
US civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer says progressives should welcome the rise of gay marriage.

Wednesday 16 May 2012
Brendan O’Neill
Sorry, but SYRIZA won’t save Europe
The radical Greek leftists, along with Hollande in France, pose as anti-austerity yet promote ideas which will condemn Europe to long-term penury.

Frank Furedi
Revisiting ‘Midnight
in the Century’

spiked_plus_exclusive
Frank Furedi looks back at his 1990 groundbreaking Living Marxism article on the crisis facing Marxists.

Claire Fox
‘I am happy to call
myself a Bolshevik’

spiked_plus_exclusive
Claire Fox of the Institute of Ideas answers spiked readers’ questions on the left, liberty, Mad Men and more.

Tuesday 15 May 2012
Mick Hume
A respectable riot against tabloid readers
The interrogation of Rebekah Brooks over the NotW exposing paedophiles only exposed the prejudices behind the Leveson inquisition.

Matthias Heitmann
Pirate Party: giving politics a jolly roger
The cyber-rights obsessives are not a ‘fresh wind’ - they just show how much politics is screwed.

Rob Lyons
Give food labelling the red light
The state’s attempt to colonise our kitchens by crudely labelling food ‘good’ and ‘bad’ is deeply unhealthy.

Monday 14 May 2012
Frank Furedi
Gay marriage: redrawing the American political map
In officially endorsing same-sex marriage, Obama is signalling that the Democratic Party now has little interest in its old blue-collar supporters.

Sean Collins
Why I’m coming out... against gay marriage
A New York progressive braves the opprobrium of his peers by questioning same-sex marriage.

Tim Black
Why the Hollygarchy *hearts* gay marriage
Hollywood has become a closed set to anyone who is less than effusive about same-sex marriage.


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