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

Article

16 May 2006

Dancing to the tune of alienation
Why is everybody cheering transsexuals all the way to the operating theatre?

Column

Duleep Allirajah

11 May 2006

Offside, 11 May
Eriksson's bold decision to select Theo Walcott reveals his inability to make the most of a talented England squad.

Columns

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

Other articles

Article

9 May 2006

Playing at life
Why does everybody in New York want to be an actor?

by George Blecher

Article

9 May 2006

Roo-mournia and the dashing of Great White Hopes
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume

Article

2 May 2006

McDonald's: why the parents of autistic kids are lovin' it
Ignore the food snobs - for some of us the Golden Arches are a godsend.

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

Article

2 May 2006

Noel Edmonds and the cult of positivity
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume


	Politics of Fear by Frank Furedi Read the interview on spiked Buy the book from Amazon(UK)

Article

25 April 2006

No surrender to UEFA bureaucrats
What is UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body based in Nyon, Switzerland, doing debating the content of Rangers FC's chants?

by Dolan Cummings

Article

13 April 2006

Doffing the Burberry cap to nihilism
The photo of Prince William done up like a chav shows how mainstream slumming it (and slating working-class youth) has become.

by Neil Davenport

Article

13 April 2006

The Bible story: holy shit
Conception through the left earhole, a 14-year-old virgin impregnated by God, and other wacky Easter tales.

by Dave Hallsworth

Article

4 April 2006

Too much public information
The debate about public services is swamped by big but vacuous reports.

by Ciaran Guilfoyle

Column

Duleep Allirajah

30 March 2006

Offside, 30 March
England's World Cup song should embrace the national pastimes of miserabilism and self-deprecation.

Columns

Article

23 March 2006

What's behind the war on 4x4s?
Campaigners not only loathe the cars but also the well-off working classes who drive them.

by Brendan O'Neill

Article

21 March 2006

On the state of English cities
A new government report takes a small-town approach to metropolitan living.

by Austin Williams

Article

16 March 2006

Who's afraid of supermarkets?
Come on - having lots of low-priced products in easy-to-reach locations is not such a bad thing.

by Neil Davenport

Article

7 March 2006

Stop living ethically, and start living
Even Conservative leader David Cameron now wants to live a more 'ethical life'. What's going on?

Column

28 February 2006

Gender pay gap: what's it worth?
There's more to life than equal pay.

Columns

Article

16 February 2006

Yes Man? No thanks
Danny Wallace�s popular cod-philosophy that it�s good to say yes is more conservative than it sounds.

by Stephen Bremner

Article

9 February 2006

Flight pledge: Grounding passengers
Who wants to sign an agreement to limit the number of flights we take a year?

by Peter Smith

Article

9 February 2006

Lotto killjoys
Experts warn that winning millions could ruin your life. Chance would be a fine thing.

by Mike Clough

Column

2 February 2006

Transport Trends: The good news
A new government report shows that the British public is more mobile than ever before. But policy-makers see that as a problem.

Columns

Article

20 January 2006

Concrete over the railways
The combustion engine is streets ahead of the obsolete piece of Victorian engineering that is the British rail system.

by Stanley Feldman

Column

17 January 2006

The suspicious characters in the Department for Education
Teacher vetting scandals are a crisis of the government's own making.

Columns

Article

6 January 2006

Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway?
Why government proposals to build 200,000 new homes in London and Kent are causing a stink in certain circles.

by James Heartfield

Article

28 December 2005

An unholy marriage
Catholic reactionaries and secular miserabilists have joined forces to spoil our fun.

by Brendan O'Neill

Column

19 December 2005

Reservoir Dolls?
A new study finds that little girls torture their Barbies. At least they know the difference between fantasy and reality.

Columns

Article

16 December 2005

The other Outback trial
Joanne Lees was found guilty by the media for refusing to play the role of traumatised victim.

by Neil Davenport

Article

15 December 2005

Treating doctors like murder suspects
The trial of Dr Howard Martin shows how the process of dying is becoming a sordid battleground.

by Kevin Yuill

Article

9 December 2005

What about a Routemaster for the twenty-first century?
The shift from the old double decker to the new bendy-bus reveals officialdom's disparaging view of The People.

by Rob Lyons

Article

24 November 2005

Stop this 'urban regeneration' roadshow
We need some tall thinking on city planning.

by James Woudhuysen

Article

16 November 2005

Licensing Bill: the morning after
The 24-hour drinking debate has descended into the gutter.

by Jamie Douglass

Column

12 October 2005

Who wants six months' paternity leave (unpaid)?
Not mums, not dads - but the government is pushing it anyway.

Columns

Column

22 September 2005

A Sure Start for the therapeutic state
It's official: New Labour's scheme for deprived children does nothing for the under-fives. But then the government has always been more bothered about the parents.

Columns

Article

12 September 2005

Concreting over the facts
That's enough handwringing about 'the end of the countryside': the vast majority of Britain is greenfield, and it's likely to stay that way.

by James Heartfield

Article

7 September 2005

More than just a SHAM
Self-help gurus might be fakes - but why do so many people fall for them?

Column

25 August 2005

Does Britain have a drinking problem?
Take one shot of reality, add two shots of panic and a mixer of self-loathing, and you have the licensing law debate.

Columns

Article

11 August 2005

The assault on pleasure
Is a new Puritanism on the march?

by James Murphy

Article

1 February 2005

Healthier in lungs, poorer in spirit
A non-smoking New Yorker misses the illicit, adult camaraderie of smoke-filled bars.

by George Blecher

Article

1 September 2004

Hands-off care for kids
New research reveals the 'ludicrous ways' in which childcare professionals now avoid touching the young children they look after.

Article

30 July 2004

You aren't what you eat
Dr Gillian McKeith's diet, as seen on TV, is pure quackery.

by Rob Lyons