spiked-politics

9 May 2006

The decline of New Labour and the rise of no-party politics
On cowardly coups and the arbitrariness of the British political scene.

Columns


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

Article

16 May 2006

The truth about 7/7: it was meaningless
The UK government's 'narrative' on the London bombings shows how empty and pointless the attacks were. So why do so many try to read meaning into them?

Article

16 May 2006

Globalisation: the new spectre haunting Europe?
European officials, rattled by recent rejections of the EU constitution, are using scare tactics to try to win people�s support.

by Bruno Waterfield

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

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9 May 2006

The truth about British casualties in Iraq
Iraq is becoming less dangerous for British troops - and the IRA killed twice as many soldiers in one year as Iraqi insurgents have killed in three. Breaking down the stats.

Article

9 May 2006

Bolivia: 'nationalisation' isn't what it seems
Latin America is afflicted by the same loss of meaning in political life as we in the West are.

Article

11 May 2006

The EU and Serbia: treating a state like a naughty child
What gives European officials the right to punish Serbia for failing to arrest former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic?

by Tara McCormack

Column

4 May 2006

When control freaks lose it and spindoctors twist in the wind
It is striking the extent to which New Labour�s woes now seem to be media-driven.

Columns


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

Article

4 May 2006

The Hollywood Actor's Burden
Why are those, like George Clooney, who opposed Bush's war in Iraq now calling on the president to 'Save Darfur'?

Article

2 May 2006

The Manifesto Club: History is still young
The convenor of a new political project explains why now is the time for an enlightened alternative.

Column

27 April 2006

Who's afraid of the working class?
Once, the political elite was gripped by fear and loathing of workers. Now it just loathes them.

Columns

Article

27 April 2006

Barking: the land that Labour lost
White east Londoners' votes for the BNP seem to be more about resignation than racism.

Article

27 April 2006

Interdependent we stand, divided we fall
The New Economics Foundation�s report on 'ecological debt' is a fascinating picture of Britain's exploitation of the world's resources. But it is frustratingly one-sided.

Article

25 April 2006

Nepal: now that's what I call democratisation
Why are those who bang on about bringing 'people power' to foreign lands so ambivalent about the people demanding power on the streets of Nepal?

Article

24 April 2006

I will never vote for a leader who makes an ethical spectacle of himself
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume

Article

20 April 2006

Bosnia: whose state is it anyway?
The European Union is in denial about its undemocratic domination of this tiny Balkan republic.

by David Chandler

Article

18 April 2006

Who's afraid of the British National Party?
Only a clapped-out political class could see Nick Griffin and his band of nobodies as a threat.

Column

13 April 2006

The politics of abuse, and the abuse of politics
Today, the more acrimonious an argument or election contest appears to be, the less likely it is that anything of principle is really at stake.

Columns

Article

13 April 2006

Stop fighting a fantasy war over Iran
Both the Bush administration and its critics are talking war with Iran because they are struck dumb by events in Iraq.

Article

13 April 2006

In the shadow of the Fifth Republic
The French student protests might be lively, but they have failed to break free of the politics of the past.

by Chris Bickerton

Article

11 April 2006

Prodi v Berlusconi: Italy's ugliest election?
In the absence of any big ideological differences, Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi traded barroom insults instead.

by Dominic Standish

Article

11 April 2006

Attacking Berlusconi for all the wrong reasons
His bank balance, foul language, rumoured plastic surgery: the left focused on Berlusconi's personal foibles because politically they aren't that different to him.

Article

11 April 2006

Saddam's trial: playing the genocide card
The coalition is trying to win back some moral authority in Iraq by uttering the G-word.

by David Chandler

Article

6 April 2006

Decommission the Electoral Commission
These nobodies and know-it-alls have replaced the dusty old lords as a block on popular democracy.

Article

4 April 2006

What ever happened to the Orange Revolution?
Last year we were told that a popular uprising in Ukraine had ousted a fraudulent leader. So why has that fraudulent leader now been voted into power?

by Tara McCormack

Article

30 March 2006

Paris strikes: more 1984 than 1968
Beneath the fiery street protests there lurks a mood of deep conservatism.

by Gerard Feehily

Article

28 March 2006

No-go Italy
Treviso's car ban on 'Environment Day' shows that when it comes to green issues, Italian voters have no choice.

by Dominic Standish

Article

24 March 2006

Why would anyone donate to these parties of the living dead anyway?
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume

Column

23 March 2006

State funding is no solution for bankrupt political parties
The problem is not only that they have run out of money, but have exhausted their political capital too.

Columns

Article

21 March 2006

Don't moan about the House of Lords - abolish it
The �peerages for loans� scandal is a symptom, not the cause, of the deeply undemocratic nature of the second chamber.

Article

16 March 2006

What Milosevic meant to them
Why some in the West are taking the death of the dictator personally.

Article

10 March 2006

Guantanamo Bay and the champagne anti-imperialists
The campaign against Camp X-Ray has been hijacked by moral posturing.

Column

9 March 2006

Jowell: when the political gets too personal
Tessa Jowell should not be judged by unelected quangos for what she did in her personal life, but by the electorate for constantly intruding into ours.

Columns

Article

7 March 2006

The biggest scandal in Italian politics
Never mind Tessa Jowell's husband David Mills; it's the Italian magistrates hunting him that we should be worried about.

Article

7 March 2006

Are Muslims being persecuted?
Ignore the crass comparisons between 1930s anti-Semitism and 'Islamophobia' today: some Muslims are wearing victimhood as a badge of honour.

by Neil Davenport

Column

2 March 2006

Irving and Livingstone: what liberal backlash?
The imprisonment of David Irving and suspension of Ken Livingstone are the logical extension of an illiberal political climate that some of the backlashers helped to create.

Columns

Article

2 March 2006

Growth is good
Benjamin Friedman�s new book makes a decent stab at defending affluence, but doesn�t go far enough in its attack on �growth sceptics�.

by Daniel Ben-Ami

Article

23 February 2006

Gossip dressed up as investigative journalism
Conspiracy theories about everything from Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to spiked writers are polluting the mainstream media.

Article

23 February 2006

Balkanisation by another name
In the talks about Kosovo's future, the former Yugoslavia is being treated as a carcass to be dissected by Western diplomats.

by Philip Cunliffe

Column

Jennie Bristow

21 February 2006

How-to politics
Geoff Mulgan's new organisation Involve seeks to 'put people at the heart of decision-making'. But what decisions, and why?

Columns

Column

6 February 2006

Those cartoons: a caricatured argument
All of this heat about the Danish cartoons is shedding no light on the important questions of free speech, genuine tolerance, multiculturalism and society today.

Columns

Article

26 January 2006

Diminishing the Holocaust
Having turned the Nazi genocide into a platform for cheap moral posturing, the UK government can't be surprised that everyone else wants a piece of the action.

Article

24 January 2006

Government by bribery
It's a sign that politics is bankrupt when the government pays the public to comply with its policies.

Article

12 January 2006

Who's on life support: Sharon or Israel?
The response to Ariel Sharon's stroke suggests that some think a nation is dying rather than its leader.

Article

5 January 2006

Searching for their own personal Palestine
Why middle-class Westerners like Kate Burton are queuing up to get into Gaza.

Article

16 December 2005

Humanitarian interventionists dig in
In his new book Anti-Totalitarianism, Oliver Kamm makes a shrill and inconsistent defence of the Iraq war.

Article

9 December 2005

The elites, masses and racism
The aftermath of Anthony Walker's murder shows that it's working-class whites who are now seen as the scum of the earth.

by Neil Davenport

Article

2 December 2005

Muriel Degauque: Islamo-fascist, freedom fighter or what?
The Belgian brunette didn't only blow up herself in Baghdad - she also blew to bits the various stereotypes of Islamic terrorists.

Column

25 November 2005

The proof that not everything is a conspiracy
Recent scandals over Iraq show that today�s leaders are incapable of covering their own backsides, never mind covering up a war.

Columns

Article

25 November 2005

Behind Sharon's pragmatism
The Israeli leader's resignation from his own Likud party shows up the superficiality of contemporary Israeli politics.

by Nicholas Frayn

Article

18 November 2005

Christopher Meyer: what a creep
In his controversial memoirs DC Confidential, the former British ambassador to the US comes off far worse than those 'pygmies' and 'pandas' in government.

Article

8 November 2005

French lessons for us all
The riots reveal the political exhaustion of Europe.

by Frank Furedi

Article

21 October 2005

Osama bin Laden: more media whore than guerrilla warrior
The author of a refreshing new book says al-Qaeda has more in common with new global movements than with nationalist armies of old.

by Frank Furedi, Russell Jacoby, Richard Sennett

Article

26 September 2005

Reflections on the future
In New York this Friday, three leading intellectuals will interrogate and debate politics in the twenty-first century. Here, they outline their views.

Article

15 September 2005

Politics of Fear
Frank Furedi talks about his new book.

by Jennie Bristow

Article

26 August 2005

Germany: have politicians lost their tongues?
Speechlessness and evasion mark the run-up to the German elections.

by Sabine Reul

Article

5 August 2005

The price of multiculturalism
What the responses to the killing of Anthony Walker in Liverpool and the failed bombings in London reveal about contemporary Britain.

by Michael Fitzpatrick

Article

23 June 2005

Where are the bodies, Bob?
Bob Geldof told millions of TV viewers that dead African children wash up on a tiny Italian island every day. The island�s mayor says that is 'absolute nonsense'.

Article

24 November 2004

Who isn't exploiting the politics of fear?
Blair's one-eyed critics are making the same mistake as Bush's opponents.

by Mick Hume