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Friday 25 May 2012 Home
Issue No.56
May 2012

The madness of the Murdochphobes
Did Rupert create a ‘shadow state’? No
by Brendan O’Neill

Welcome to May’s review of books
Books editor’s note
There’s nothing August about Strindberg
by Alexander Adams
Tony Judt: the last public intellectual?
by Neil Davenport
The university: still dead
Thank you, Maurice Sendak
The myth of the duped masses
Westerners’ poverty tourism
Do UK policymakers hate art?
Thursday 24 May 2012
Patrick Hayes
Scrap this anti-social meddling in our lives
Theresa May's souped-up successors to ASBOs will further diminish communities' ability to reprimand their local reprobates.

Duleep Allirajah
A proud Chelsea
‘unsupporter’ till I die

Some supported vulgar, nouveau riche Chelsea in the Champions League final out of patriotism. Palace fans didn’t.

Rob Lyons
Camping it up
behind the Iron Curtain

Yes, host nation Azerbaijan is authoritarian, but boycotting the Eurovision won't fix that. So go crazy and sing along.

Wednesday 23 May 2012
Brendan O’Neill
It’s time to get serious about opposing the EU
Anyone who really wants to tackle the anti-democratic EU must first distance himself from the new clique of infantile Brussels-bashers.

Rob Lyons
An energy policy for dimwits
The UK government’s new energy strategy is about muddling through, not powering society forward.

Jason Walsh
How smokers’ rights are being vapourised
The anti-smoking lobby has now targeted electronic cigarettes in order to crack down even on the ‘notion’ of smoking.

Tuesday 22 May 2012
Tim Black
Don’t let these killjoys kill the Olympic spirit
From talk of terrorism and crime to claims that London will become a ‘hotbed of diseases’, why is officialdom so down on the Olympics?

Nathalie Rothschild
The Dictator: satirising America
Sacha Baron Cohen’s rollicking comedy about a tinpot tyrant is more a send-up of Americans than Arabs.

Colin McInnes
Bringing new life to dead matter
Human beings have the potential to transform the universe, so let’s not lose sleep about turning it into ‘grey goo’.

Monday 21 May 2012
Frank Furedi
Parental determinism: a most harmful prejudice
David Cameron’s proposed parenting classes are built on the bizarre and destructive idea that parenting determines society’s fortunes.

Nancy McDermott
Time magazine did not invent the mommy wars
A cover image of a mother breastfeeding her four-year-old has aroused ire, but debates about parenting aren’t new.

Ken McLaughlin
When red tape is a good thing
Ignore social workers’ claims about red tape costing lives – it shouldn’t be easy for the state to intervene in family life.

Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Parenting: you learn it on the job
The government wants to take anxiety out of parenting, but suffering anxiety is crucial to becoming a good parent.


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23 May 2012
It’s time to get serious about opposing the EU
15 May 2012
A respectable riot against tabloid readers
Divorcing marriage from morality

22 May 2012:
The Dictator: satirising America


24 May 2012:
Camping it up
behind the Iron Curtain


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