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| Friday 6 November 2009 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Thursday 5 November 2009 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Wednesday 4 November 2009 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Tuesday 3 November 2009 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Monday 2 November 2009 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
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Jennie Bristow
Why pedagogy is in peril
Frank Furedi, author of the new book Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, talks to Jennie Bristow about the politicisation of education and the crisis of adult authority.
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Sean Collins
China and America: the economic Odd Couple
Stephen Roach provides some useful, counterintuitive insights into the economic relationship between America and China, but too often uses the term ‘global imbalance’ as a euphemism for ‘US decline’.
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The anti-smoking ‘truth regime’ that cannot be questioned
Two new books expose how epidemiology has been used as a tool of propaganda in the war on tobacco – and woe betide anyone who tries to inject some real facts into the debate.
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Stuart Derbyshire
Farewell, Norman Levitt
With the passing of Norman Levitt, a rigorous defender of scientific truth against the relativism and cowardice of the ‘academic left’, we have lost a modern Enlightenment hero.
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