Books & Essays Welfare

‘Swedish politics? It’s effective but dull’

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Category: Books & Essays Welfare
TV and radio

Arrested Development: a glorious comeback?

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Category: TV and radio
Sport

Palace, get over your promophobia

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Category: Sport
Film

Mud: as sickly sweet as BBQ chicken

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Category: Film
British politics War on Terror

Woolwich: a knife crime, not an act of war

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:28 AM
Category: British politics War on Terror
Free speech The Counter-Leveson Inquiry

Liberty comes out against press liberty

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Category: Free speech The Counter-Leveson Inquiry
Crime and the law

Keep the police out of our private lives

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Category: Crime and the law

Oklahoma: a swirling storm of anti-human prejudice

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:35 AM
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Environment Food

A bug-eyed view of culinary pleasure

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:46 AM
Category: Environment Food
Privacy

Bozza, bonking and the public interest

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Category: Privacy
Free speech Letter from America

No sex talk, please, we’re students

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Category: Free speech Letter from America
Arts and entertainment Education

What is the point of teaching the arts?

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:38 AM
Category: Arts and entertainment Education

One flew over the students’ nest

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:44 AM
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Gay Marriage

Gay marriage and the tyranny of sameness

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 07:44 PM
Category: Gay Marriage
British politics

Does tax avoidance really ‘do evil’?

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:39 AM
Category: British politics
Europe For Europe, Against the EU

Is the EU now just a satire on itself?

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Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Category: Europe For Europe, Against the EU
Books & Essays

A nightmare vision of the welfarist trap

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Last updated on May 20, 2013 at 01:35 PM
Category: Books & Essays
TV and radio

Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Category: TV and radio
Film

The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.

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Last updated on May 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM
Category: Film
Europe For Europe, Against the EU

The non-parochial case against the European Union

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Category: Europe For Europe, Against the EU
Crime and the law

What’s so liberal about rehabilitation?

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Category: Crime and the law
Innovation Science and technology

The right to bear 3D-printed arms

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Category: Innovation Science and technology

St Angelina, save us from ourselves!

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:56 AM
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Syria

Syria and the myths of WMD

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Category: Syria
Mental health Therapy culture

Our brains aren’t moulded by abuse

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Category: Mental health Therapy culture
Sport

Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Category: Sport
Abortion

We absolutely support the right to choose

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Category: Abortion
USA

Cleveland kidnappings: putting the poor on trial

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Category: USA
Child abuse panic Jimmy Savile scandal

The moral lynching of Barbara Hewson

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 01:22 PM
Category: Child abuse panic Jimmy Savile scandal
Anti-social behaviour Liberties

The Queen’s Speech and the blanket bans

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Category: Anti-social behaviour Liberties
Euthanasia

The baby-boomer death cult

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Last updated on May 17, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Category: Euthanasia
Books & Essays

What’s worse than bullying? Anti-bullying intervention

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Last updated on May 13, 2013 at 09:50 AM
Category: Books & Essays
Sport

Palace v Brighton: it’s more than a game

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:17 AM
Category: Sport
TV and radio

Naff is fine… so long as it’s funny

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 11:17 AM
Category: TV and radio
British politics Immigration

The phoney border war over immigration

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Category: British politics Immigration
Free speech

Defending the right to mock JM Keynes

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Category: Free speech
Smoking

The new EU directive: quit smoking or die

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Category: Smoking
British politics

They’re all Mr Less- Than-Ten-Per-Cent

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Category: British politics
Child abuse panic Crime and the law

Yewtree is destroying the rule of law

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Category: Child abuse panic Crime and the law
Child abuse panic Crime and the law

Is this justice, or naming and shaming?

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Last updated on May 11, 2013 at 09:28 AM
Category: Child abuse panic Crime and the law
British politics

Why the political class is so scared of Farage

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Category: British politics
Liberties Scotland

The collapse of liberty in Scotland

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Category: Liberties Scotland
British politics

Why UKIP’s rise is a shortlived rebellion

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Last updated on May 10, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Category: British politics
Books & Essays

Homage to Orwell

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 02:58 PM
Category: Books & Essays
TV and radio

Drudgery vs Downton: which is more gripping?

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Category: TV and radio
Sport

Football is no place for the thin-skinned

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Category: Sport
Race Sport

My outrage over ‘racist’ Reginald D Hunter

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Category: Race Sport
Asia

The political malaise in Malaysia

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Category: Asia
British politics

A car crash of civilisations

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Category: British politics
Syria

The weird obsession with chemical weapons

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:01 AM
Category: Syria
Environment Food

Eurocrats with a bee in their bonnets

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Category: Environment Food
British politics Europe For Europe, Against the EU

Getting the sack for having the wrong beliefs

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Category: British politics Europe For Europe, Against the EU
Death and mourning

Iain Banks and the death of privacy

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:00 AM
Category: Death and mourning
Asia China

How Britannia became cool in HK

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:54 AM
Category: Asia China
British politics

UKIP: monster raving loonies?

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Category: British politics

After Savile: policing as entertainment

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:02 AM
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Crime and the law Domestic violence

Inviting the police to vet our partners

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:50 AM
Category: Crime and the law Domestic violence
Arts and entertainment British politics

Time to end UK art’s dependency culture

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Category: Arts and entertainment British politics
review of books - 2013-04 (April)

‘I have a bad dream…’

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Category: review of books - 2013-04 (April)
review of books - 2013-04 (April)

It’s the public sector we should reform, not the public

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 10:50 AM
Category: review of books - 2013-04 (April)
review of books - 2013-04 (April)

How to get filthy rich in Asia

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Category: review of books - 2013-04 (April)
review of books - 2013-04 (April)

Biblical miserabilism disguised as science

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Last updated on Apr 25, 2013 at 05:03 PM
Category: review of books - 2013-04 (April)
review of books - 2013-04 (April)

The next killer app: personalised healthcare

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Category: review of books - 2013-04 (April)
review of books - 2013-04 (April)

A junk outlook on processed food

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Last updated on Apr 25, 2013 at 04:58 PM
Category: review of books - 2013-04 (April)
review of books - 2013-04 (April)

‘Breast is Best’: the worst kind of hectoring

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Last updated on Apr 25, 2013 at 06:18 PM
Category: review of books - 2013-04 (April)
Child abuse panic

Can you see what they did yet?

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Category: Child abuse panic
Music

When pop wore its art on its sleeve

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:41 AM
Category: Music
Sport

What should we do about Suárez? Laugh.

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Category: Sport

A look at the funny side of terrorism

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:40 AM
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Men and motors in American suburbia

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Last updated on May 03, 2013 at 03:13 PM
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Abortion

Remaking the case for a woman’s right to choose

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Category: Abortion
Abortion Ireland

Abortion: make the case in public, not in court

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Category: Abortion Ireland
Abortion Ireland

Savita case exposes the cruelty of Irish law

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 03:07 PM
Category: Abortion Ireland
USA

Boston: what turns nice guys into nihilists?

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Category: USA
USA

A city shut down, liberty surrendered

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:47 AM
Category: USA
USA

America declares war on two losers

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Category: USA
Australia

Welcome to Oz, where no one rules

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Category: Australia
Housing

How to solve the housing crisis

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Category: Housing
Free speech

Beware the broadband bobbies

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Last updated on Apr 26, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Category: Free speech
spiked plus: April 2013

Biblical miserabilism disguised as science

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Category: spiked plus: April 2013
TV and radio

TV docs: intensive care for ailing institutions

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Category: TV and radio
Sport

Is this the return of hooliganism? No.

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 01:25 PM
Category: Sport
Film

Sex-crazed drug-fuelled gun-toting babes in bikinis

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:20 AM
Category: Film
Food

Chewing the fat over food fears

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Last updated on Apr 22, 2013 at 11:15 AM
Category: Food

‘Death is not a tonic for society’s ills’

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Last updated on Apr 18, 2013 at 02:12 PM
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USA

Boston: killers without a cause

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Last updated on Apr 18, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Category: USA

An inspiring scientist and a nutty professor

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Last updated on Apr 18, 2013 at 11:27 AM
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USA

The Boston bombings: refusing to be terrorised

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Category: USA
British politics

Five things liberals love that Thatcher invented

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Category: British politics

Didn’t she die when the wall came down?

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM
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Sticking it to Thatcher’s corpse

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM
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Andrew Wakefield: return of the wicked witch

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:31 AM
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Film Israel and Palestine

Modern Zionists: gatekeepers of what?

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:31 AM
Category: Film Israel and Palestine
Health Social policy and the welfare state

Time to abolish the psychiatric ASBO

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Category: Health Social policy and the welfare state
TV and radio

So it’s okay for the Beeb to be ‘unethical’?

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Category: TV and radio
Liberties

Freedom can never be ‘granted’ to us

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Category: Liberties
Environment Food No to Neo-Malthusianism Population

We need a bit more hunger to end poverty

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Last updated on Apr 19, 2013 at 11:33 AM
Category: Environment Food No to Neo-Malthusianism Population
Books & Essays Food

A junk outlook on processed food

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Last updated on Apr 12, 2013 at 01:24 PM
Category: Books & Essays Food
Sport

Paolo Di Canio: let’s salute freedom of conscience

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Last updated on Apr 12, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Category: Sport
TV and radio

Thatcher’s death: how did it make you feel?

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Last updated on Apr 12, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Category: TV and radio