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Wednesday 19 June 2013	Home

Tim Black
Journalism through the Prism, darkly The Guardian and Washington Post got a lot wrong in their NSA spying reports, because their urge to tell a scary story overrode fact-checking.

Jenny Jarvie
Free speech and loathing in Tennessee
A US government lecture to locals on tolerance proved to be an official exercise in resentment building.

Christopher Snowdon
Taking the pleasure out of e-cigarettes
The authorities’ attempt to classify e-ciggies as medicinal effaces the real reason people smoke - they enjoy it.

Tuesday 18 June 2013

Brendan O’Neill
Roll up, roll up – watch Nigella being strangled!
The Nigella Lawson ‘choking’ incident confirms that respectable observers are as good at being voyeuristic and moralistic as any tabloid hack.

James Woudhuysen
From red peril to green panic
America’s military industrial complex once chased communists. Now it obsesses over CO2 emissions.

Ben Pile
The pathologising of climate scepticism
ESSAY: The shoddy science of sceptic-bashing LOG12 attempts to turn criticism into a psychological illness.

Monday 17 June 2013

Ann Furedi
Putting choice back into the pro-choice movement
Ann Furedi’s spiked essay on the importance of a woman’s right to choose ignited much heated debate. Here, she reiterates her stance.

Neil Davenport
Why UK politicians now ♥ single mums
Lone parents, once the easy target of the New Right, are now being championed by the family-fearing state.

Patrick Hayes
Post on Facebook and be damned
The police are banging up people for drunkenly posting comments on Facebook. Could you be next?

Friday 14 June 2013

Michael Cook
Inferno: the lovechild of Wikipedia and Malthus
With its clotted prose, list of historical facts, and sub-plot about humans breeding like rabbits, Dan Brown’s latest is a depressing read.

Duleep Allirajah
There’s something about Jose
Hated in Spain, loathed in Italy, but adored in Britain – what is it about Mourinho that makes him our special one?

Tom Slater
Why should we care about The Stone Roses?
More wide-eyed fan letter than serious documentary, a new movie fails to convince us the Roses were a great band.

Thursday 13 June 2013

Mick Hume
Twitter: #FreeSpeech or #EthicalCleansing?
Where is the outcry over the rising number of blatant cases of non-secret state interference online and in social media?

Patrick Hayes
‘We don’t want EDL with our Cornflakes’
Those calling for the EDL leader to be ‘no platformed’ from BBC radio hold the listening public in contempt.

Tom Bailey
Compo culture comes to Kenya
Compensating Kenyans for their treatment during the Mau Mau uprising makes a mockery of anti-colonial struggles.

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	18 June 2013 Roll up, roll up – watch Nigella being strangled!


	13 June 2013 Twitter: #FreeSpeech or #EthicalCleansing?


	14 June 2013: Why should we care about The Stone Roses?


	7 June 2013: We don’t want a Time Lord for our times

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