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

Article

18 May 2006

Throwing 'terror tantrums' for animals
Dispatches showed that animal rights activists are not so much public enemies no.1 as the political equivalent of Kevin the Teenager.

Article

16 May 2006

Dead dreams of utopia
Why has a London museum exhibition on Modernism caused so much disquiet?

by Anna Travis

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

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Article

11 May 2006

Fair trade: the bitter aftertaste
spiked-film: A new film makes a timely and thought-provoking attack on an unquestioned orthodoxy of our age.

by Philip Cunliffe

Article

11 May 2006

Death, dignity and distrust
spiked-TV: The Panorama special on assisted dying shows that both sides of the debate harbour an unhealthy suspicion of doctors.

Article

9 May 2006

Kick politics out of education
It is only when our leaders are in trouble that they start marching into schools.

by Michele Ledda

Article

4 May 2006

Happiness and its discontents
spiked-TV: The BBC's The Happiness Formula fails to interrogate whether happiness is an appropriate social goal.

by Daniel Ben-Ami


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Article

4 May 2006

Short films: 'An art form in themselves'
spiked-film: Bitesize Cinema is taking shorts to the masses.

by Suchandrika Chakrabarti

Article

4 May 2006

American identity revisited
As Mexican immigrants take to the streets, a debate at the New York Public Library examined the fraught question of what it means to be American.

by Alan Miller

Column

Rob Lyons

27 April 2006

From King of Chavs to object of pity
spiked-TV: Keith Allen's defence of 'Lotto lout' Michael Carroll came with some dodgy prejudices of its own.

Columns

Article

25 April 2006

Unknown White Male: focusing on the future
spiked-film: For once, a documentary about amnesia that isn�t obsessed with excavating personal history.

by Nathalie Rothschild

Article

20 April 2006

India: where a movie star is more than a movie star
Why did 60,000 film fans riot in Bangalore following the death of an old actor? Alexander Zaitchik reports from New Delhi.

by Alexander Zaitchik

Article

20 April 2006

The creation of a phantom enemy
It is the scientific establishment's own self-doubt that lies at the root of the furore over creationism.

Column

Sandy Starr

20 April 2006

The Time Lord of Love
spiked-TV: The new Doctor Who's emotional incontinence is light years away from the chaste original.

Columns

Article

20 April 2006

Transamerica: dysfunction by numbers
spiked-film: Duncan Tucker�s road movie about a transsexual substitutes revelations of abuse for character or plot development.

by Tara McCormack

Article

13 April 2006

Inside Man: just a heist movie?
spiked-film: There is racial politics aplenty in Spike Lee's latest.

by Suchandrika Chakrabarti

Article

13 April 2006

Speak for yourself
spiked-TV: It's not just the two mute children in Help Me to Speak who fear the reaction their words might get.

Article

6 April 2006

Creative economics
The UK government is kidding itself if it thinks designers can revive the economy.

by Kevin McCullagh

Article

6 April 2006

If it's not easy being green, why do it?
spiked-TV: The rat race looks heavenly compared with BBC 2's peek into one family�s attempt to go eco.

Article

4 April 2006

A cartoon caricature of the new authoritarianism
spiked-film:V for Vendetta thinks Britain in 2020 will be a fascist state. Really?

by Philip Cunliffe

Article

30 March 2006

Free thinking not allowed
The UK government's White Paper on further education dismisses learning for �pleasure and leisure� as surplus to requirements.

Article

30 March 2006

Manderlay: the danger of do-gooding
spiked-film: Lars von Trier's film about slavery ruthlessly attacks meddlesome liberalism.

by Philip Cunliffe

Article

28 March 2006

Pinochet in Suburbia
spiked-TV: The BBC drama on Britain�s detention of Pinochet was nostalgic for Blair's brief �ethical foreign policy�.

by James Heartfield

Article

24 March 2006

Syriana: an anti-political thriller
spiked-film: Stephen Gaghan�s study of the oil industry is shot through with conspiratorial cynicism.

by Karl Sharro

Column

Rob Lyons

23 March 2006

Double-glazing over
spiked-TV:The Armstrongs illustrate the depressingly thin line between reality TV and spoof.

Columns

Article

21 March 2006

The Rape of the Masters
Roger Kimball�s new book on artistic judgement is good, but not great.

by Michael Savage

Article

16 March 2006

Taking the soul out of belief
Daniel Dennett's new book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, doesn't so much demystify religion as dehumanise it.

by Josie Appleton

Article

16 March 2006

Heritage wars
A historian points out the problems behind today�s claims of cultural ownership over historical artefacts.

by David Lowenthal

Column

Dolan Cummings

16 March 2006

Travellers meet Teletubbies
spiked-film: Perry Ogden�s film about Irish Travellers is well shot but shallow.

Columns

Article

16 March 2006

Dancing on TV: it's a riot
spiked-TV: Strictly Come Dancing is fun but dance is capable of provoking much greater passions.

Article

16 March 2006

The Dan Brown whodunnit
The copyright trial over The Da Vinci Code is weaving a tangled web.

by Eugenio Triana

Column

Jennie Bristow

14 March 2006

Dial M for madness
Stephen King's Cell, where cellphone-users become braindead flesheaters, feasts on some mainstream anxieties.

Columns

Article

14 March 2006

Intelligent design and educational stupidity
Worried about the rise of creationism in UK schools? This teacher blames the timidity of the science establishment.

Article

9 March 2006

A cold depiction of Capote
spiked-film: Bennett Miller's Capote chastises the author for being ruthlessly ambitious. What's wrong with that?

by Emilie Bickerton

Article

9 March 2006

The television will not be revolutionised
spiked-TV: Good shows, like Firefly and Veronica Mars, will prosper if freed from the whims of TV executives.

by Niall Crowley

Column

3 March 2006

The sermon on the mountain
spiked-film: Artistically, Brokeback Mountain is quite a good film. Socially, it sucks.

Columns

Column

Rob Lyons

3 March 2006

Press the Poliak-off button
spiked-TV: Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter was trite and ham-fisted. So why did columnists love it?

Columns

Article

2 March 2006

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Does teaching preschoolers about Aboriginal culture or homosexuality make them more �tolerant�? This educator thinks not.

by Catherine Scott

Column

24 February 2006

My co-dependent relationship with daytime TV
spiked-TV: How I got lured into that twilight world of white trash-baiting and gay conformism.

Columns

Article

23 February 2006

Death in the Ozon layer
spiked-film: Unlike other films, Fran�ois Ozon�s Le Temps Qui Reste manages to do �dying with dignity� well.

by Graham Barnfield

Article

23 February 2006

Frey's fictional memory syndrome
Does it matter if misery memoirs are not absolutely true?

by Alexandra Jackson

Column

17 February 2006

George Clooney's black-and-white politics
spiked-film:Good Night and Good Luck, Clooney's tribute to broadcasters who stood up to Joseph McCarthy, is a deeply conservative movie.

Columns

Article

14 February 2006

Testing adult authority
The UK government wants to turn teachers into shock troops against kids' bad behaviour. Not surprisingly, teachers aren't too keen.

Article

9 February 2006

Hidden: Guilty viewing
spiked-film: Is Michel Haneke�s new film worth seeking out?

by Emilie Bickerton

Article

9 February 2006

That joke isn't funny anymore
What's the point of satire when comedians fail to tackle the new taboos?

by Niall Crowley

Column

19 January 2006

Jarhead: a war movie without a war
spiked-film: Sam Mendes' satire about the first Gulf War reveals more about modern warfare than his critics have twigged.

Columns

Column

Sandy Starr

19 January 2006

Who cares about Celeb BB? You decide
spiked-TV: Has-beens, hissy fits and a competition of victimhoods make Celebrity Big Brother grimly compelling.

Columns

Article

16 January 2006

Dying to be on the box
Corpses are the new stars in TV documentaries.

by Tiffany Jenkins

Article

12 January 2006

A full stop to the Satanic panic
A BBC documentary reminds us how irrational were the fears of ritual abuse in the 80s and 90s. Yet the view that parents can't be trusted lives on.

by Dolan Cummings

Article

4 January 2006

The 'Hitlerisation' of history teaching
The problem with the teaching of the past today is that it makes universalism history.

Article

9 December 2005

Pinter: good playwright, bad politician
Harold Pinter's Nobel speech highlighted the chasm between his literary insights and childish worldview.

by Sandy Starr

Column

Jennie Bristow

30 November 2005

Killing Thinking
Professor Mary Evans' critique of 'the death of the universities' has breathed new life into the higher education debate.

Columns

Article

30 November 2005

Hard science
How can teenagers hope to study physics, when the educational establishment thinks that abstract thought is beyond them?

Article

13 October 2005

Channel 4: grow up
By offloading its only good stuff on to More4, Channel 4 is ghettoising TV for grown-ups.

Article

5 October 2005

Did love conquer marriage?
Stephanie Coontz's history of marriage gives a useful insight into the rise and fall of intimacy.

by Nancy McDermott

Article

9 September 2005

Stars get in your eyes
The 'star system' provides a poor measure of a play�s quality.

by Matt Warman

Article

2 September 2005

The decline of the public library
Libraries are being filled up with drama groups, cr�ches and slimming clubs, while books are pushed to the margins.

by Philip Pettifor

Article

2 September 2005

Museums: after the Lottery boom
National Lottery cash for museums was justified in terms of increased visitors. But do the sums add up?

by Sara Selwood and Maurice Davies

Article

31 March 2005

Who's to blame
A lifelong Doctor Who fan thinks the Tardis has been knocked off course by 'fanwankery'.

by Sandy Starr

Article

16 February 2005

The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
From ethics committees to �learning outcomes�, the threat to academic freedom comes from within the university as much as from without.

by Frank Furedi

Article

22 September 2004

Down with 21st century philistinism
Frank Furedi explains why his latest book calls for a new Culture War.

by Brendan O'Neill