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	Tuesday 23 May 2006, London
	Save the planet, don't see the world?
	Tourism versus the environment

Article

26 July 2001

The apathy debate
Are lazy voters really to blame?

Article

26 July 2001

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New Labour always claims to be a party that listens to 'ordinary people'. We commissioned a group of 'ordinary people' - including a doctor, three teachers, a youth worker, a scientist, two netheads and a first-time voter - to tell the government what kind of politics they would like to see during Labour's second term.

by the spiked focus group

	2 March 2006 Child obesity Should we worry if our children are overweight?

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Article

26 July 2001

A manifest lack of vision
The promises I wish New Labour wouldn't keep.

by Jennie Bristow

Article

26 July 2001

New Labour's health cares
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick looks towards an unhealthy second term for the NHS.

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

Article

26 July 2001

Election spiked-geist
Read spiked's election diary with a difference.

by the spiked focus group

Article

25 July 2001

Was it the UK's first internet election?
The UK Hansard Society's new report on the role of the internet in the UK election is a useful factual analysis. But what political conclusions should be drawn?

by Sandy Starr

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Article

22 June 2001

A vote against politics
Election 2001: the anti-political vote should worry the political establishment as much as the historically low turnout.

by Rob Lyons

Article

22 June 2001

The Conservatives' life support system
How the dying Conservative Party is being kept alive by the UK media.

by Sandy Starr

Article

12 June 2001

Why banning the BNP is bad for democracy
We might never know exactly why some voters in Oldham supported the BNP - because the whole affair has been a debate-free zone.

Article

8 June 2001

Consuming democracy
The new consumer activism, carried out in the name of 'the People', is really elitist networking that thrives on political apathy.

by Frank Furedi

Article

7 June 2001

Cheating on democracy
Even before the stories about vote rigging, politicians' interest in postal voting was corrupt.

by Frank Furedi

Article

7 June 2001

After the election
As the phoney war ends, the battle begins to determine how life in Britain will really be during Tony Blair's second term.

by Mick Hume

Column

Jennie Bristow

7 June 2001

Spoiling for a fight?
Why I resisted the temptation to spoil my ballot paper on election day.

Columns

Article

7 June 2001

No turn-ups on turnout
The attempt to plunder history for pat explanations for low turnout doesn't work. Here's why.

by Rob Lyons

Column

Dolan Cummings

7 June 2001

TV UK, 7 June
'The doctrine that all people want is something to yak about in the queue at Starbucks is convenient for TV executives.'

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Article

6 June 2001

What the papers say before polling day
The newspapers' leaders give you a sense of Labour being the least bad of a very bad bunch, rather than a great choice for Britain.

Column

4 June 2001

A landslide that signifies nothing
'This is the age of landslide-lite, when you can have an avalanche in the virtual world of parliamentary politics that leaves life pretty much untouched in the real world below.'

Columns

Article

1 June 2001

I was a secret Lib Dem voter...
...but I'm not any more. Here's why.

by Patrick West

Column

Duleep Allirajah

1 June 2001

Offside, 1 June
'Tony Blair has used football to dress in the replica shirt of ordinary blokishness - but his government's handling of major sporting issues has been indecisive and inept.'

Columns

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Article

31 May 2001

Jim Royle, Bagpuss, Tigger...how students see politicians
spiked-survey: 'Students may not be fired up about the Euro or tax, but there is one issue they are divided on - whether John Prescott is more like Jim Royle or Homer Simpson.'

Column

31 May 2001

Diary of a first-time non-voter, 31 May
Tory meltdown: 'Contests just aren't very interesting if there is only one contender. And they can't be won either.'

Columns

Column

25 May 2001

Blair wins - so why is New Labour so nervous?
'While New Labour is going to trounce the Tories, it has yet to establish the authority of the new political elite.'

Columns

Article

25 May 2001

Northern Ireland election: a done deal
The election campaign in Northern Ireland is being described as a 'hot contest' - but it is not so much nationalist v Unionist, as nationalist v nationalist and Unionist v Unionist.

Article

24 May 2001

Give them enough rope
However wrong and despicable the ProLife Alliance party political broadcast might be, it is more wrong for the BBC to ban it.

by Ann Furedi

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Column

24 May 2001

Diary of a first-time non-voter, 24 May
I have noticed that there is money to be made in self-help manuals, so I am writing one to help wannabe politicians in their election campaigns.

Columns

Article

22 May 2001

Asylum: enforcing discrimination
Are tougher asylum laws just common sense?

by Rob Lyons

Article

22 May 2001

Asylum: a bogus debate
Look at the figures - asylum seekers are not a problem.

by Josie Appleton

Article

22 May 2001

Scotching Westminster
Even politicians in Scotland regard the UK general election as little more than a dress rehearsal.

by Dolan Cummings

Column

Helen Searls

18 May 2001

An Englishwoman in Washington
'Only one aspect of the UK election has so far aroused the interest of the US media - the total collapse facing the British Conservative Party.'

Columns

Article

18 May 2001

TV UK, 18 May
In the studio audience for a show with Tony Blair: 'If anybody is here to assassinate Blair, I thought, shoot me instead'

by Dolan Cummings

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Article

17 May 2001

The politics of 'Ethics man'
Sandy Starr asks anti-sleaze MP Martin Bell what he's standing for this time.

by Sandy Starr

Column

17 May 2001

Shopping for cut-price votes
'The parties try to use taxes to entice us to vote for them, as if we were deciding whether to do the weekend shop at Tesco or Sainsbury's.'

Columns

Article

16 May 2001

New Labour's economy: healthy, sluggish, dull
Are boasts of economic stability merely celebrations of lethargy?

by Daniel Ben-Ami

Article

15 May 2001

Not-so-Liberal Democrats
The Lib Dems have made freedom their big election issue - but not freedom as we know it.

Article

15 May 2001

Italy's unfashionable elections
After Silvio Berlusconi's election - is Italy really the hotbed of extremism and corruption the European press claimed it to be?

by Dominic Standish

Article

11 May 2001

10 things I hate about EU
It's boring, illegitimate, technocratic, divisive and bland. Nobody's for it, nobody's against it, it's a retreat from politics and a retreat from economics. And it's a tricky one.

by Jennie Bristow

Column

11 May 2001

Diary of a first-time non-voter
'Election day is my twenty-first birthday. What sort of party will I end up having now?'

Columns

Column

11 May 2001

Politics is important - voting isn't
'Nobody need feel any obligation to vote in an election that has become little more than a coronation ceremony for the new oligarchy.'

Columns

Article

9 May 2001

Your vote counts! (to Bush, Blair, Gore and Hague, anyway)
Should voting be an act so banal as flushing the toilet?

by Frank Furedi

Article

9 May 2001

Blair's other babies
What lies behind New Labour's infantile obsession with Young Britain?

by Jennie Bristow

Column

Jennie Bristow

8 May 2001

License to drink - soberly
'The new licensing laws may exercise less control over WHEN we drink, but will only bring about more controls on HOW we drink.'

Columns

Column

8 May 2001

Inspire us with some new tunes
As the UK election campaign gets off to a non-start, spiked editor Mick Hume proposes a few bullet points for Tony Blair and William Hague to put on little cards and give to all their candidates.

Columns

Article

26 April 2001

Don't mention the R-word?
Should politicians pledge to keep silent on the race issue? Kenan Malik, author of The Meaning of Race, the CRE's Chris Myant, Tony Sewell, columnist for The Voice, novelist and critic Mike Phillips, and the UK Refugee Council's Jessica Yudilevich give their views.

by spiked-geist

Column

20 April 2001

Cook plays the curry card
At last we know what the UK general election is really about: it's the Tandooris against the Tories.

Columns

Article

19 April 2001

How to win the election in (Saatchi) style
Saatchi & Saatchi was credited with winning the 1979 election for the UK Tory Party, and branding the Thatcherite project in the 1980s. Strategic planner Craig Mawdsley advises the party leaders on how to smarten up their image for the general election 2001.

by Tiffany Jenkins

Column

12 April 2001

Don't mention the election
If any of the parties had a message to make us sit up and take notice, they would be shouting it from the rooftops now.

Columns

Column

2 April 2001

The strange affair of the election that never was
'Public support for cancelling the election amid the foot-and-mouth crisis was always an expression of the anti-political mood of our times.'

Columns

Column

22 March 2001

An outbreak of anti-election fever
'We are left with a raging national debate over when the general election should be, while the small matter of what that election is actually going to be about passes almost without comment.'

Columns

Column

22 March 2001

Diary of a first-time non-voter
'If politics is about who can create the most entertaining TV, politicians are on to a sure loser. Myleene, Kym, Danny and the rest have already won hands down.'

Columns

Article

8 March 2001

Going for grey
As politicians compete to bribe the grey voting bloc, they reveal the depth of their contempt for the elderly.

by Phil Mullan

Article

8 March 2001

Me and my vote
Brendan O'Neill quizzes some of the great and the good on their voting intentions at the general election.

Article

8 March 2001

Party politics: it's only rock'n'roll
Expect the British general election to be more like a readers' poll for the New Musical Express than a political contest.

by Andrew Calcutt

Column

22 February 2001

You don't have to be mad to vote here...
'If putting polling stations in supermarkets was a brazen stunt, putting them in prisons looks even more surreal.'

Columns

Column

15 February 2001

Grey days for democracy
'Behind their displays of concern, the UK authorities hold pensioners in contempt, as bodies to be bought on the cheap come election time.'

Columns

Column

8 February 2001

For fewer laws, not more
When New Labour promises to be 'bold and radical', it means busy and restless.

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Article

1 February 2001

Brought to book
Now the Tories are asking non-Tories to have a go at writing their manifesto.

Article

11 January 2001

John Mortimer: 'Why I wouldn't lunch with a government minister'
John Mortimer muses about falling over, foxhunting and free speech.

Column

29 December 2000

Play your cards right - and left
'In the run-up to the general election, British politics has been reduced to a cynical game of cards.'

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