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Brendan O’Neill
Iraqi WMD: new myths for old
Why is the anti-war side now spreading scare stories about 'loose nukes' and poisons threatening world peace?
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Sarah David
Smoke without fire
A Euro-report warning of chemicals in scented candles crosses the line between scaremongering and self-parody.
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Kevin Yuill
A ticket to die
Behind the UK High Court's decision to allow a British woman to travel to a suicide clinic in Switzerland.
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Kunal Dutta
Rise of the robots
Loneliness, a desire for control, or just a bit of fun? Why young men are dreaming of a Robosapien for Christmas.
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Francis Boorman
Ivory towers should be built on merit
It is patronising to working-class students to suggest that Oxbridge should 'positively discriminate' in their favour.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 2 December
Hamming it up on The Medici and Panorama.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 2 December
Football's spitting wars.
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| Friday 3 December 2004 |
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Helene Guldberg
Galloway 1, free speech 0
Ex-Labour MP George Galloway was defamed, but his victory under English libel law is nothing to celebrate.
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Mick Hume
I’m the Home Secretary…Get Me Out of Here!
spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Helen Searls
Suffering the Democrat blues
The rise of Post-Election Selection Trauma in the USA shows just how personal the political has become.
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Stephen Bowler
Health in a sick society
The ‘public health’ agenda promotes powerlessness as the defining feature of our age.
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| Tuesday 7 December 2004 |
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Aidan Campbell
Can the Turner turn us on to politics?
It will take more than prize-winning arty videos to kickstart public life.
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| Wednesday 8 December 2004 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Why the drugs don’t work
The problem isn't that doctors are too quick to prescribe anti-depressants, but that they have stretched the label of depression to cover the full range of human unhappiness.
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Josie Appleton
Where’s the art in that?
A survey of lottery-funded arts centres finds that half a billion has been blown on 'buzz'.
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Alison Perrett
Bringing the past to life
The pros and pitfalls of the BBC's attempt to digitise its archives.
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| Thursday 9 December 2004 |
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Jennie Bristow
Choosing childcare
It's good that childcare is on the political agenda – but what does the government mean by choice?
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 9 December
Experts carp about the decline of football, while fans flood through the gates.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 9 December
Christmas TV advertising: an irony-free zone.
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| Friday 10 December 2004 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The ghost of Harold Shipman
The measures proposed in a report on Britain's first serial killer GP are likely to prove more damaging, to both doctors and patients, than the activities of one deranged doctor.
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Brendan O’Neill
Taking the peace
Why have Northern Ireland's peace talks foundered on a spat over snapshots?
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Mick Hume
Rise of the victim-hero
spiked editor Mick Hume’s Notebook in The Times (London).
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James Heartfield
Constructing Global Civil Society
A new book asks why, from Iraq to Ukraine, Western politics is being played out everywhere but in the West.
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Kunal Dutta
Flying in the face of fear
British travellers are shirking terror warnings and taking to the skies in record numbers.
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| Tuesday 14 December 2004 |
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Janice Rumbold
Infectious diseases are still important
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| Wednesday 15 December 2004 |
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Frank Furedi
Dumbing down? Don’t blame the media
The tendency to blame reality TV both trivialises and underestimates the problem.
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Josie Appleton
Fundamentalism begins at home
A French author argues that new forms of Islam owe more to Western identity politics than to the Koran.
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| Thursday 16 December 2004 |
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 16 December
The Semantic Inquisition haven't yet had their fill of Big Ron.
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Shirley Dent
Needling diabetics
Disease becomes fetishised around individual behaviour and experience.
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| Friday 17 December 2004 |
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Mick Hume
The Blunkett debacle: bad news for democracy
What does any of this all-consuming grubby affair have to do with the business of politics?
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Kevin Yuill
Ten myths about assisted suicide
The flaws in the arguments for ending lives.
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| Wednesday 22 December 2004 |
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Rob Lyons
Waste: a burning issue
A lot of rubbish is talked in the heated debate over Nottingham's incinerator.
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| Thursday 23 December 2004 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Iraq? Whatever
Why the big issue of 2004 now leaves most people feeling bored
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 23 December
Finding joy in misery in the Shameless Christmas special.
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Graham Barnfield
House of Flying Daggers
The crisis of the Hollywood hero is forcing cinema audiences to look east for their superhumans.
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| Wednesday 29 December 2004 |
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Brendan O’Neill
‘God save our tolerant Queen…’
The Queen's much-praised Christmas message on tolerance and diversity was an attempt to re-crown the monarch as defender of a new faith
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Ken McLaughlin
Government incapacity on mental health
Why the introduction of the Mental Capacity Bill has been such a mad affair.
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Rob Lyons
Offside, 29 December
Heavyweight boxing is almost out for the count.
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Sandy Starr
What makes us exceptional?
New research could throw some light on the unique evolution of the human brain.
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