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Brendan O’Neill
This is no way to bring down Bush and Blunkett
The scandal-mongering that passes for politics on both sides of the Atlantic means no one is ever truly held to account.
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| Wednesday 2 November 2005 |
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James Heartfield
They should have dropped the Code of Conduct, not the minister
The manufactured scandal over David Blunkett's earnings shows up the problem of over-regulation.
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Josie Appleton
A shell of a memorial
The 7/7 remembrance service turned London's response to the bombs into a media cliché.
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Dr Elizabeth Whelan
Science goes down the river
US environmental authorities have forced General Electric to remove a type of 'cancer-causing' chemical from the Hudson River. On what evidence?
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| Thursday 3 November 2005 |
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Helene Guldberg
Man is more than a beast
The primatologist Frans de Waal says we should get in touch with 'our inner ape'. Speak for yourself.
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Jennie Bristow
Mobile MPs: the health debate
What do members of parliament think about the UK's precautionary approach to mobile phones and masts?
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 3 November
Legless: the dangers of mixing your genres.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 3 November
What was all that about the Premiership being predictable?
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| Friday 4 November 2005 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
When quackery kills
The tragic death of a five-year-old autistic boy in the USA following treatment with mercury chelation reveals the dangers of alternative therapies.
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Rob Lyons
Global warming treaty goes cold
Blair and others might be casting doubt on the Kyoto Protocol, but the broader consensus on global warming goes unchallenged.
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Mick Hume
An invitation to wannabe celebrity suicide bombers
spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Donald Winchester
Pick’n'mix citizenship
The questions in the proposed UK nationality test are bizarrely random.
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Neil Davenport
Breeding divisions in Lozells
The riots in Birmingham bore all the hallmarks of today's grim political culture.
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Robert Latona
Resurrecting Franco
Spain's political leaders are dusting off the old dictator as a panto villain to distract an increasingly disgruntled public.
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| Tuesday 8 November 2005 |
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Frank Furedi
French lessons for us all
The riots reveal the political exhaustion of Europe.
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James Heartfield
Who’s fanning the flames?
It is not that assimilation has failed, but that France only pays lip service to assimilation.
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| Wednesday 9 November 2005 |
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Jennie Bristow
Too much sex talk
Government policy keeps teenagers’ sex lives a secret from their parents - but not from the police. So much for confidentiality.
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Chris Gilligan
‘What was it all for?’
Why are former Royal Ulster Constabulary officers seeking compensation for stress now, 10 years after the end of the Troubles in Northern Ireland?
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| Friday 11 November 2005 |
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Grace Chua
In a huff about Hu
Human rights activists protest against the visiting Chinese PM more loudly than they do against Blair's erosion of civil liberties at home.
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Mick Hume
Blair, Bush, Chirac: in power, but in paralysis
Why can't any government face up to a political challenge these days?
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The death agony of the anti-MMR campaign
Even after a Cochrane review found 'no credible evidence' of a link between MMR and autism, sections of the British media just won't let it lie.
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Mick Hume
Herceptin: Nanny Hewitt doesn’t know best
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 11 November
We'll stop booing lanky Crouch when he starts scoring some goals.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 11 November
The Thick of It: a nastier version of The Office.
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Alan Miller
A lame-horse race
The 'city that never sleeps' was lulled into slumber by Tuesday’s mayoral elections.
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Brendan O’Neill
A bad day for Blair - an even worse one for liberty
MPs may have given the prime minister a bloody nose, but they knocked freedom out for the count.
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Stuart Derbyshire
Unethical committees
A burgeoning ethical infrastructure can mean that scientists take less care of their research subject.
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The death agony of the anti-MMR campaign
Even after a Cochrane review found 'no credible evidence' of a link between MMR and autism, sections of the British media just won't let it lie.
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| Monday 14 November 2005 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Exploiting our nuclear fears
It's alleged that three Australian terror suspects were thinking about targeting a nuclear reactor. Where could they have got an idea like that?
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Patrick Belton
Letter from a burning banlieue
As the dust settles over Aulnay-sous-Bois, an Oxford student asks the rioters what all that was about.
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Rob Lyons
Greenhouse kids throw a tantrum
Tony Blair’s decision to talk down the Kyoto agreement really got environmentalists' backs up.
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| Tuesday 15 November 2005 |
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Josie Appleton
Knee-jerk rebellion
Tony Blair's parliamentary no-men are little more than political saboteurs.
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Shirley Dent
No rhyme or reason to poem panic
How did a 14-year-old's not-very-good poem about Hitler provoke handwringing about anti-Semitic teachers warping our kids' minds?
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| Wednesday 16 November 2005 |
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Jamie Douglass
Licensing Bill: the morning after
The 24-hour drinking debate has descended into the gutter.
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Norman Lewis
Innovation in an era of caution
A technology researcher argues that while business buzzes on about 'innovation', there's a dearth of real invention.
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| Thursday 17 November 2005 |
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Jennie Bristow
Don’t give food alerts the green light
In seeking to label food as 'good' or 'bad', the UK authorities risk treating pizza like poison, and consumers like children.
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James Heartfield
Cox Report: creative accounting
Designers and admen aren't going to save the British economy.
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Grace Chua
A misdiagnosed generation
US teens find that popping one kind of pill soon means that you need another kind.
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| Friday 18 November 2005 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Christopher Meyer: what a creep
In his controversial memoirs DC Confidential, the former British ambassador to the US comes off far worse than those 'pygmies' and 'pandas' in government.
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Malcolm Kendrick
The Great Cholesterol Myth
We all know that a high cholesterol diet is bad for you, right? Wrong, says this medical writer.
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Mick Hume
Little Britain: the comedy of conformism
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Josie Appleton
Latin America rising?
Westerners' talk of a Latin American 'revolution' replaces political analysis with pure fantasy.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 18 November
Rome: for men only? Bollocks.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 18 November
England is caught between Rooneymania and Pa-roo-noia.
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| Monday 21 November 2005 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The absurdity of a ‘patient-led’ NHS
What next: a lunatic-led asylum?
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David Perks
Faith no more
The spat over faith schools reveals the rotten core of British education.
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| Tuesday 22 November 2005 |
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Jennie Bristow
After the Bradford police murder
The overblown sentimentalism that has greeted the tragic killing of Sharon Beshenivsky reveals a police force in denial.
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Josie Appleton
Rape surveys: a reality gap
What's behind the claim that 'A third of Britons blame flirty women for rape'?
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Donald Winchester
The death of the LP
In an era of pick’n’mix iPodding, who needs a 45-minute player?
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| Wednesday 23 November 2005 |
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David Chandler
Ten years on: who’s running Bosnia?
The only people freed up by Bosnia’s ‘democratic’ reforms will be EU administrators.
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| Thursday 24 November 2005 |
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Joe Kaplinsky
What happened to the positive case for nuclear power?
The UK government is trying to promote nuclear by stoking up fears about the future. Bad move.
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James Woudhuysen
Stop this ‘urban regeneration’ roadshow
We need some tall thinking on city planning.
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| Friday 25 November 2005 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Pandemic flu: turning a drama into a crisis
UK health secretary Patricia Hewitt blames the ‘worried well’ for creating a shortage of flu vaccines. But who made the well worried?
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Mick Hume
The proof that not everything is a conspiracy
Recent scandals over Iraq show that today’s leaders are incapable of covering their own backsides, never mind covering up a war.
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Josie Appleton
Drunken consent is still consent
Reports of a recent court judgement claimed that 'binge-drink women may lose right to claim rape'. Some sobriety is required.
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Nicholas Frayn
Behind Sharon’s pragmatism
The Israeli leader's resignation from his own Likud party shows up the superficiality of contemporary Israeli politics.
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Mick Hume
Licensing laws: what’s all the binge-whingeing about?
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 25 November
A brief history of TV pubs.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 25 November
There's only one Keano - and that's the problem.
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| Monday 28 November 2005 |
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Rob Lyons
George Best: grief shouldn’t be a national sport
Alongside the celebrations of a great footballer, the response to the death of Best brought out the worst in contemporary society.
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Phil Mullan
Still procrastinating over pensions
We're all likely to be a lot older before we see any meaningful reform of Britain's pension policy.
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Stuart Derbyshire
Bush isn’t the only one who’s anti-science
The Republican War on Science is on the money about the Bush administration. But it neglects to mention the sins of Democrats and even scientists themselves.
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| Tuesday 29 November 2005 |
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Michael Savage
If you’re happy and you know it…
Why has happiness become a matter for public policy?
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| Wednesday 30 November 2005 |
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Ken McLaughlin
‘One-in-10 kids are mentally ill’? That’s madness
Can you spot the three with disorders in your kid's nursery?
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Jennie Bristow
Killing Thinking
Professor Mary Evans' critique of 'the death of the universities' has breathed new life into the higher education debate.
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James Heartfield
City, suburbs and snobs
Richard Rogers' warnings about middle-class flight to the countryside are wide of the mark.
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David Perks
Hard science
How can teenagers hope to study physics, when the educational establishment thinks that abstract thought is beyond them?
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Josie Appleton
Is abuse an excuse for murder?
The new law on provocation creates one law for 'angry men', and another for 'fearful women'.
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