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Friday 6 November 2009 Home
Jennie Bristow
Why pedagogy is in peril
Frank Furedi explains that the real problem in education isn’t intefering politicians or pushy parents, but a profound crisis of adult authority.
Patrick West
The Noughties: 10 years of nostalgia
The most striking thing about this decade is how much of it we spent looking back at past decades.

Duleep Allirajah
Are we witnessing a counter-Rafalution?
Most Liverpool fans still believe Rafael Benitez is a tactical genius. But the voices of dissent are increasing.

Thursday 5 November 2009
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Autism: moving beyond the quest for a cure
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion challenges both those who want to cure and those who want to celebrate autism.

Nathalie Rothschild
Putting a forcefield around green ideas
The notion that green beliefs in the workplace should be legally protected from ridicule is deeply censorious.

Barry Curtis
Fireworks: the killjoys’ pet hate
Miserabilists want to make Bonfire Night a less explosive, less colourful affair in the name of protecting pets. No way.

Jason Walsh
No, I’m the real Irish republican
Jason Walsh spoke to some of those who claim to be the legitimate heirs of 1916 and found their legitimism geeky and unconvincing.

Wednesday 4 November 2009
Mick Hume
Who elected these knights to rule parliament?
Grubby elected – and kick-outable – MPs are still more of a democratic choice than squeaky-clean appointed and unaccountable civil servant Sirs.

Brendan O’Neill
American hippies vs the evil Japanese
The pro-dolphin documentary The Cove exposes how warped are the misanthropic values of the animal-rights lobby.

Tim Black
Giving the young a taste of freedom
Prince Edward’s comments may have been crass, but today’s cotton-wool kids need to be allowed to take risks.

Tuesday 3 November 2009
Brandon O’Neal
Why we must wipe out climate denialism
With a survey showing that only 15 per cent of Brits are worried about global warming, it’s time to extinguish the ideas warping the public’s mind.

Nathalie Rothstein
China’s too lenient: we need a no-child policy
With the swarm of human beings expected to hit nine billion by 2050, it’s time we discussed tough remedies.

Rob Loynes
Smoking parents pose a threat to their kids
By all means take away the children of obese parents, but parents who smoke and drink are an even greater danger.

Monday 2 November 2009
Brendan O’Neill
This ‘revolt of the experts’ is revolting
It was wrong of the government to sack David Nutt. But it’s also wrong for experts to pose as paragons of wisdom who are above democracy.

Tim Black
Why New Labour is so dopey on cannabis
The interminable debate about whether dope should be a class B or C drug reveals the government’s incoherence.

Nathalie Rothschild
Telling unfunny jokes should not be a crime
The fining of French comedian Dieudonné for publicly insulting Jews is a crime against freedom of speech.

Friday 30 October 2009
Issue No.28
October 2009

Pedagogy in peril
A crisis of adult authority is killing education.
by Jennie Bristow

Welcome to October’s review of books
Editor's note
China and America: the economic Odd Couple
by Sean Collins
Science, smoking and the new McCarthyism
by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Farewell, Norman Levitt
Capitalism’s ‘morbid age’
The legacy of Stieg Larsson
How cooking made us human
Industry in a time of pessimism
Martin Bell on MPs’ expenses
Thursday 29 October 2009
Rob Lyons
Go veggie to ‘save the planet’? Burger off!
The Stern-endorsed campaign to stop people eating meat shows that greens have no solutions for society beyond launching wars on enjoyment.

Patrick West
Steve McQueen, without the car chase
BBC Radio 4’s brave choice to rework the ultra-visual Bullitt showed that old-school noir can still be entertaining.

Duleep Allirajah
In defence of terrace abuse
The arguments that football fans have become too abusive and more inclined to violence don’t stack up.


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