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Joe Kaplinsky
Rocking our world?
Asteroids are unlikely to wipe us out - but they could help us to learn the secrets of the universe.
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Ray Crowley
Jaded telly
Why the best ambassador for Big Brother didn't win.
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The 'Death of the Subject'
James Heartfield's new book shows how the attack on subjectivity in theory reflects the diminished role of the individual in society.
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Patrick West
Home and away
An English-Irishman in Dublin observes the antics of other tourists.
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James Woudhuysen
Converging on risk aversion
It's short-termism in the IT world that means mergers are thought to be Bad News.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 2 August
The Commonwealth Games is like a school sports day - medals come cheap and participants are applauded just for turning up.
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Brendan O’Neill
The new nostalgia
Why are young adults getting teary-eyed for childhoods they have just left behind?
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 2 August
The real-life Indian Summer sagas.
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Ken McLaughlin
Mental healthcare in the balance
The UK Mental Health Bill captures society's shift from rehabilitating the mentally ill towards helping them just to 'survive'.
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Jennie Bristow
Child protection questions
Issues raised by the Lillie and Reed case.
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| Tuesday 6 August 2002 |
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Andrew Cox
Damning the dams
Blocking Turkey's Ilisu Dam project won't benefit the Kurds.
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Tiffany Jenkins
'Why not a Kandinsky, a Mondrian and a motorcycle show?'
Arts institutions are giving up on difficult work, argues critic Jed Perl.
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Paul Reeves
Manufacturing defensiveness
If British industry wants to attract young workers, it should take a more hard-headed approach.
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Scott Anderson
Of pharmers and chimeras
An anti-GM crusader has gone to the US patent office, armed with an imaginary human-chimpanzee. That's the cringe factor - where's the science?
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| Thursday 8 August 2002 |
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Jan Bowman
Pests about pesticides
Friends of the Earth is peddling non-stories about unfounded fears.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 8 August
Project 9/11 is as therapeutic for the performers as it is dramatic for the audience.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 8 August
The saga of Brian Tindle and Bimbo83.
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Patrick West
Ulster says what?
The Antipodean Inflection hits Belfast.
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Josie Appleton
DVT: Scare on wheels
Blood clots and car journeys - what is the RAC Foundation driving at?
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Jon Holbrook
The rise and rise of human rights
A new book finds that those who champion human rights benefit themselves more than their supposed beneficiaries.
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Jennie Bristow
Playground squabbles
The discussion about children's play is really about adults.
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| Friday 9 August 2002 |
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Mick Hume
What 'anti-war' movement?
The opposition to invading Iraq has little in common with anti-war politics of the past.
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| Saturday 10 August 2002 |
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Josie Appleton
Looking bad in Bournemouth
The Tories' problems reflect the state of British politics.
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James Panton
A third class proposal
Will classifying degrees by percentage rather than class make British higher education any better, or fairer? An academic has his doubts.
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| Monday 12 August 2002 |
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Tessa Mayes
Courting censorship
Cherie Blair's law firm should keep its demands for a privacy code to itself.
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Mick Hume
Unsustainable Earth summits
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London).
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Phil Mullan
A mature response to ageing
It's time to grow up and stop treating pensioners as a problem.
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| Wednesday 14 August 2002 |
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Barbara Hewson
Antenatal coercion
What were the Irish authorities doing, railroading a pregnant HIV-positive woman into having a hospital birth?
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James Woudhuysen
If in doubt, brand
The craze for branding only advertises corporate insecurity.
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Patrick West
Going batty over Betty
So a crow can bend a wire? Well, clap, clap.
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Dominic Standish
Playing at politics
The Italian left has adopted a children's game as a form of protest.
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Jennie Bristow
Turning tragedy into trivia
The ghoulish obsession with two missing girls shows the UK media at its worst.
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| Friday 16 August 2002 |
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 16 August
Still at the Edinburgh Fringe: Victory at the Dirt Palace, Kitchen, and the revival of Shopping and Fucking.
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Brendan O’Neill
In pursuit of the unknowable
The USA is planning a secret worldwide war against remaining al-Qaeda members - as soon as it finds out where they are.
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Jennie Bristow
Exam results
Why A-levels are all over the place.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 16 August
Roy Keane shouldn't have a 'duty of care' towards Alf Inge Haaland - or anybody else he meets on the pitch.
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| Monday 19 August 2002 |
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Mick Hume
After Soham
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London).
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| Tuesday 20 August 2002 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Theatre as therapy
Young New Yorkers are taking their post-11 September angst to the Edinburgh stage.
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Alison Perrett
When users lose out
Technological measures against digital piracy don't just punish the pirates.
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Rob Lyons
Clocking off
After seven nights of catching up with the plot, a square-eyed 24 fan gets a chance to rest.
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Penny Lewis
Building self-esteem, lowering horizons
The organiser of the Carbuncle Awards for Scotland's worst building thinks critics are being too soft on architects.
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Josie Appleton
Life and death decisions
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority allowed one couple to use IVF to try to save their son, but not another. Why?
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| Thursday 22 August 2002 |
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Ray Crowley
Casting the first stone
The ruling to stone a Nigerian woman for adultery is terrible. So is our rush to judge Nigeria.
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Jennie Bristow
A barren elite
Sylvia Ann Hewlett's book Baby Hunger might be unpalatable - but it contains a lot of truth.
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James Heartfield
Summing up our fears
Post-11 September apocalyptic thriller strikes UK cinemas.
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Daniel Ben-Ami
Poverty of ambition
How the World Summit on Sustainable Development will limit aspirations for economic growth.
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Ian Walker
Long live the King
There's much more to Elvis than junk food and jumpsuits.
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Aidan Campbell
Leni's legacy
What do people really object to in Leni Riefenstahl's 'fascist films'?
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Helene Guldberg
Of lice and men
Meet the Professor of European Thought who thinks humans are a plague on the planet.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 22 August
Final despatch from the Fringe, with Judas, Attempts On Her Life and The Canterbury Tales.
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Patrick West
Taking the stand
Confessions of a Brentford fan who sometimes defies the stewards.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 22 August
Team doing badly? Punch the reserve goalie!
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Sandy Starr
Keeping IT real
Businesses should wow us with technology first, and hype it up later.
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Mick Hume
After Soham - mourners and 'the mob'
The public displays of grief in Soham and the crowd rage in Peterborough are expressions of the same rampant emotionalism.
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| Tuesday 27 August 2002 |
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Mick Hume
No one has a human right not to be unhappy
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London).
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| Wednesday 28 August 2002 |
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Verity Campbell-Barr
Personal tuition
Teenagers say no to sex and relationship education.
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David Chandler
Limits of the ICC
The squabbles about the International Criminal Court indicate that some states are more equal than others.
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Bill Durodié
Eroding expertise
Scientists should listen to public concerns, not pander to them.
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Brendan O’Neill
'A link between Saddam and bin Laden? No way'
The editor of Britain's top military journal picks some holes in the US case for war.
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Patrick West
Grief affliction
The more minute's silences we have the less convincing they sound.
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Brendan O’Neill
'A link between Saddam and bin Laden? No way'
The editor of Britain's top military journal picks some holes in the US case for war.
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| Thursday 29 August 2002 |
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Ray Crowley
More to life than maths
Ignore the recommended caffeine intake, calorie consumption and exercise time - common sense is better than a calculator.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 29 August
Channel 4 experiments with a TV opera about people with Princess Diana psychoses.
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Ceri Dingle
Time to ditch the sustainababble
The youth education charity WORLDwrite launches a critical memorandum on the Johannesburg Summit.
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Josie Appleton
Extreme reactions
As radical Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun sets out its plans for the UK, why do we listen?
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Anthony Browne
Ducking the debate
The environment editor of The Times (London) issues a challenge to those, like spiked, who support an open-door policy on immigration.
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Jennie Bristow
Summit for nothing
Let the Johannesburg delegates drink champagne - just don't let them do anything else.
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John Tusa
'Thou shalt worship the arts for what they are'
The director of the London Barbican Centre gives Ten Commandments for the arts.
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| Friday 30 August 2002 |
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 30 August
The support for AFC Wimbledon is like a 'Save the Whale' campaign.
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