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Mick Hume
The State of the War
What is Bush's game of fantasy foreign policy really all about?
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Rob Lyons
Dog's dinner in South Korea
When did sporting bodies acquire the right to lecture nations about their diets?
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Josie Appleton
Wishful thinking
Why are there so many versions of How 11 September Changed the World?
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| Tuesday 5 February 2002 |
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Professor Vivian Moses
Chewing over GM foods
Nothing can ever be 100 percent safe. So why do we demand a risk-free life?
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Sandy Starr
A pox on scientific debate
Why is a BBC drama about 'smallpox terrorism' being taken so seriously by health experts, commentators and public bodies?
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Brendan O’Neill
All the world's a prison
David Blunkett's 'third way' for prisons risks making jailbirds of us all.
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Tom Sanders
Food science
Modern food production techniques are good for you - but let's stop obsessing on vitamins.
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Michael Caines
A tragic biopic
Instead of Iris Murdoch, the film gives us little 'Iris'.
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| Thursday 7 February 2002 |
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 7 February
Gangsters are cool - so why aren't loyalist paramilitaries?
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 7 February
Spitting in football: 'the worst of all things'?
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Sandy Starr
Moving on
For the mobile internet to succeed, innovators need to stop worrying about consumer concerns.
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Jennie Bristow
School for scandal
Who's letting 'teachers' like Amy Gehring loose in the classroom?
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Brendan O’Neill
Giving race experts a Lasching
America's twin obsessions with race and therapy have proved 'nothing short of a disaster', argues author Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Doctoring domestic violence
There is nothing GPs can do about violence in the home - and they shouldn't even try.
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| Tuesday 12 February 2002 |
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Brid hehir
Head cases
Craniosacral system therapy claims to help relieve illnesses and injuries by manipulating the 'life forces' produced by the human skull. Where's the proof?
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| Thursday 14 February 2002 |
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Tony Gilland
GM food: putting fear before facts
The Royal Society, the UK's premier scientific body, thinks GM food is safe. So why did its report spin such scary headlines?
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Sandy Starr
Ripping yarn
How was the new Jack the Ripper film received at the scene of his crimes?
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Ray Crowley
Pop go the Idols
Despite Pop Idol's 'talent required' banner, it became another 'feel sorry for me on a Saturday night' hour.
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Tony Gilland
GM food: putting fear before facts
The Royal Society, the UK's premier scientific body, thinks GM food is safe. So why did its report spin such scary headlines?
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Duleep Alliraja
Offside, 14 February
Witchcraft is the least of African football's problems.
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Josie Appleton
The fundamentalist question
What turns unemployed youths from Tipton, a public school boy from Wanstead, and a West-Coast American liberal into Islamic terrorists?
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Mick Hume
Why snob is a four-letter word
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London).
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Ellie Lee
ECPS: swallow the facts
How can taking emergency contraceptive pills still be a criminal offence in the UK?
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Barbara Hewson
Abortion traffic
Why should Irish politicians rely on women travelling to the UK for an abortion to get them out of a hole?
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 14 February
What would the great critic Adolf Eichmann have made of Jon Ronson's The Two Lives of Jonathan King?
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Debating the disease
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick replies to his critics on ME.
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Aidan Campbell
Fanatic for 15 minutes
The strange convergence of Western pop culture and ethnic fundamentalism.
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Rob Lyons
spiked-geist, 14 February
Twelve days in the life of a born-again blogger.
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Jennie Bristow
Fluff and nonsense
You can send a Valentine to your 'super-duper girlfriend', your 'hunny bunny wife', or even to your 'No. 1 son'. What next: your lovely bubbly besty friend?
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Immune to the evidence
Four years after alleging a link between MMR and autism, Dr Andrew Wakefield has failed to persuade a single reputable authority. So why do so many still listen to him?
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| Monday 18 February 2002 |
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Chris Evans
Copyright and wrongs
Traditional powers of copyright are a barrier to the internet's development, argues the founder of Internet Freedom.
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Myths of immunity
The imperilled 'immune system' is a metaphor for human vulnerability.
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Dolan Cummings
Spit back in anger
John Lloyd, the man behind Spitting Image and Blackadder, thinks today's TV comedy is no laughing matter.
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Aidan Campbell
Sex, lies and photography
Between Mario Testino's glamour heaven and Nan Goldin's urban hell, where's the reality?
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Ayse Feriel
Initial differences
Scratch the surface, and the agendas of the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum are closer than they seem.
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| Tuesday 19 February 2002 |
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Howard Fienburg
Don't blame it on the Accutane
Whatever it was that made 15-year-old Charles Bishop fly into a Florida skyscraper, it wasn't the spot cream.
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Marilyn Mason
No faith in faith schools
Why not get rid of the lot of them?
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Alan Miller
California dreaming
Making telly in La-La Land.
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Mick Hume
This sleazy obsession is a scandal
It was inevitable that once New Labour cloaked politicians in the pure robes of the priesthood, they would not remain unsullied.
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| Friday 22 February 2002 |
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Barrie Collins
'This time, Bob, it's personal'
Why is the international community so hung up about democracy in Zimbabwe?
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Jennie Bristow
Post-radical depression
The Sixties generation should come off the guilt-trip about its thirtysomething kids.
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Brendan O’Neill
Jacking the facts
Carjacking is a 'very rare occurrence', and the police don't even recognise it as a specific crime. So what's with the armed marksmen?
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Josie Appleton
Ban first, speak later
Campaigners at a London university want to stop a secret British National Party member from getting a politics degree. What are they afraid of?
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 22 February
What are Crystal Palace doing spending a king's ransom on The Worst Striker in English Football?
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Ray Crowley
Old on a minute
Ali G's language, complaining crumblies and nu-metal goes soft.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 22 February
Manchild isn't a patch on the Buffy episode where Giles is infantilised by magic cake, but what can you expect?
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Helene Guldberg
Global warming: rating the debate
A summary of the spiked-science debate on global warming.
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| Monday 25 February 2002 |
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Ciuran Guilfoyle
Forging democracy
The 'ordinary people' in New Labour's Community Forum aren't so ordinary.
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Mark Birbeck
Standard questions
Do universal standards in IT stifle innovation?
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| Tuesday 26 February 2002 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Screening wars
Anybody who questions the value of screening tests for cancer risks provoking the wrath of powerful vested interests.
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Barbara Hewson
A joke too far
An English Bar Disciplinary Tribunal went over the top when dealing with a racial harassment case.
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Joe Kaplinsky
Who owns ideas?
How the expansion of intellectual property law puts a brake on new developments.
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Munira Mirza
Culture at the crossroads
A new book calls for cultural institutions to run society. Bad idea.
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Virginia Hume
Easy posh dinners for people who value their time. This menu from Para Mullan.
Easy posh dinners for people who value their time. This menu from Para Mullan.
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| Wednesday 27 February 2002 |
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Peter L Winkler
Dirty rats
Lazy, talentless, opportunistic and rude - the Rat Pack weren't as cool as we think.
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Jennie Bristow
Welcome to the Wind Age
The passing of the Nuclear Age symbolises the explosion of self-doubt, and the slow death of ambition.
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Daniel Ben-Ami
Accounting for Enron
Risk-managers and bean-counters have taken over the corporate world.
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Ray Crowley
Texting your way to TMI
Another scare to get teenagers off those cursed mobiles.
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Rob Lyons
spiked-geist, 27 February
Exploding teddy bears, 'Your NHS', and Bush's verbal diarrhoea causes a run.
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| Thursday 28 February 2002 |
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Mick Hume
New Labour goes hunting for a cause
Just when you thought it could go no lower, the UK government puts foxhunting at the top of its agenda.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 28 February
Curling, figure skating, ski jumping...where's the sport in the Winter Olympics?
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