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Wednesday 10 March 2010 Home
Mick Hume
Whoever wins, Britain will have a hung parliament
Size isn’t everything – history shows that it takes more than a majority of members of parliament to make a strong and purposeful government.
Tim Black
Don’t allow maniacs to shape the internet
Britain’s illiberal authorities are exploiting the tragic ‘Facebook murder’ to demonise social-networking sites.

Neil Davenport
The Miles Davis of
anti-capitalism

Riffing off one glib observation after another, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is his weakest film yet.

Rob Killick
Google: a ‘frenemy’ of the internet generation
In the run-up to next week’s live spiked debate, Rob Killick says Google is neither ‘good’ nor ‘evil’ – it’s just a very big business.

Tuesday 9 March 2010
Sean Collins
The real scandal is this obsession with scandal
As Republicans and Democrats squabble over who is most corrupt, the American people become more cynical about the entire political class.

Tim Black
Britons, why can’t you be more like Iraqis?
Political observers are cynically celebrating the Iraqi elections as a welcome contrast to dumb apathy here at home.

Nathalie Rothschild
Live Aid: the White Pop Star’s Burden
The BBC’s critique of Live Aid replaces the view of Africans as victims with a view of them as corrupt.

Monday 8 March 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Jon Venables and the myth of public hysteria
It was not ‘the mob’ that turned James Bulger’s killer into a symbol of evil and moral decay – it was the decadent political elite and media.

Daniel Ben-Ami
Dubai: the warrior-victims strike again?
Israel’s policy of assassinating its enemies springs from its culture of victimhood rather than any political strength.

Rob Lyons
What’s wrong with exploiting nature?
Shock-doc Dirty Oil wants us to hate the massive oil operation in Alberta, Canada. But I couldn’t help feeling awestruck.

Friday 5 March 2010
Philip Hammond
Darfur: every celeb’s favourite African war
A new book reveals how celebrities’ and human rights activists’ simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur made the conflict even worse.

Patrick West
Why everyone laughs at Canada
With giant beavers and Alanis Morissette, the closing ceremony of the Winter Games was a feast of stereotypes.

Duleep Allirajah
So he slept with your ex. Get over it
Footballers like John Terry and Wayne Bridge need to man up and stop playing out their private dramas in public.

Thursday 4 March 2010
Fitzpatrick and Hume
The last leader of the Labour Party
Two veterans of the revolutionary left, Michael Fitzpatrick and Mick Hume, opt out of the nostalgia-fest following Michael Foot’s death.

Nathalie Rothschild
We don’t owe politicians our vote
Instead of raising awareness about how to vote, how about raising the political temperature and making voting worthwhile?

Tara McCormack
Britain’s national insecurity strategy
UK government policy is built on a long list of potential risks ‘out there’, but that’s no substitute for a political programme.

Wednesday 3 March 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Let’s reclaim the C-word
Labour and the Tories talk non-stop about ‘change’, but only because they would rather be in a state of perpetual flux than face up to political realities.

Tim Black
The paedophile panic: a product of elite hysteria
The government’s sex offenders disclosure scheme should remind us that it isn’t ‘the mob’ who are obsessed with paedos.

Kennedy & Lyons
Infrastructure should be an electoral flashpoint
Both the government and the opposition are scared of big, slow-return, risky projects – but Britain needs modernisation.


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