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| Wednesday 8 February 2012 |
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Bruno Waterfield
The Eurocratic assault on democracy
In the eyes of the EU elite, the greatest impediment to ‘the European project’ is the continued existence of the pesky electorate.
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Patrick Hayes
‘Stop! You’re entering a restricted space!’
spiked talks to the Londoner who campaigned to switch off a Robocop-style talking CCTV camera in Camden.
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Timandra Harkness
A sober reflection on ‘dangerous drinking’
You’d have to be completely hammered to take seriously the government’s latest bizarre claims about booze.
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| Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Let’s veto the West’s moral posturing on Syria
There is more logic to Russia’s and China’s veto of the UN resolution condemning Assad than there is to William Hague’s sixth-former antics.
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Tim Black
A politician resigns and no one cares
The fall of Chris Huhne may have thrilled the Westminster village, but for the rest of us it barely registered.
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Gabrielle Shiner
Circumnavigating the authorities
Why were the parents of the Dutch teen who sailed the world deemed incapable of deciding what's best for their child?
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| Monday 6 February 2012 |
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Mick Hume
No Jubilee for republicans
– or royalists
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee throws the spotlight on royalty that is not very regal, and critics who are not really republican.
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Nathalie Rothschild
Turning public places into mourning spaces
If New York’s prospective AIDS memorial park is anything to go by, it seems 9/11 now infuses everything in this city.
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John Conroy
The New Brazil vs
anti-modern celebs
James Cameron and other wealthy Hollywooders are wrong if they think they can carry on bossing Brazil about.
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| Friday 3 February 2012 |
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Sean Collins
The corruption of American politics
From Occupy to the Tea Party, the obsession with corruption is far more damaging to democracy than politicians' alleged shady dealings.
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Duleep Allirajah
Football’s thin-skinned culture of complaint
The willingness of fans to take offence risks destroying the freedom to engage in no-holds-barred terrace banter.
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David Bowden
Adapting Birdsong and finding gay footballers
This week, the long-awaited TV version of Faulks’ war epic was trumped by a surprisingly sweet invective against footie fans.
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Tom Slater
If a film is this pretty, who cares if it’s true?
In Bombay Beach, Alma Har’el uses artistic licence to tell the melancholy tale of an abandoned wannabe boomtown.
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| Thursday 2 February 2012 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Banker-bashers: a lynch mob with PhDs
The mad political pursuit of ‘evil’ Fred Goodwin confirms that bankers are to posh commentators what paedos are to tabloid hacks.
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James Woudhuysen
All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy
Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs.
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Para Mullan
Turning workplace worries into maladies
New guidelines suggesting bosses watch out for mental-health problems end up medicalising normal emotions.
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| Wednesday 1 February 2012 |
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Frank Furedi
How atheism became a religion in all but name
It was only a matter of time before someone proposed an ‘atheist temple’, given the religious-
like zealotry and dogma of the New Atheists.
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Luke Samuel
Don’t replace the drug laws with therapy laws
Campaigners who claim they want to liberalise the drug laws are in fact demanding more state control over drug-users.
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Tom Finn-Kelcey
One cheer for Ofsted’s new standards
The education watchdog has finally recognised the importance of knowledge. But it’s still too target-obsessed.
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| Tuesday 31 January 2012 |
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Mick Hume
What about a rescue deal for Euro-democracy?
A ‘secret’ German proposal for a commissioner to veto Greek budgets sparked outrage. But the EU has already usurped Greece’s sovereignty.
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