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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 1 December
On the fans who refused to stay schtum for Best.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 1 December
Ghost Squad: the best in a new breed of British cop shows.
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Michael Gough
Dioxin: death for objectivity
Compensation schemes for vets exposed to Agent Orange fly in the face of the evidence.
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Sarah David
REACHing an impasse
The new EU chemicals legislation shows the triumph of environmentalist thinking over common sense.
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Brendan O’Neill
Can George Best save the peace process?
In Belfast, politicians and community activists are trying to turn the late footballer into an anodyne 'symbol of unity'.
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| Friday 2 December 2005 |
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Mick Hume
One murder doesn’t make a racist society
The response to the killing of Anthony Walker tells us more about Britain than the murder itself.
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Mick Hume
How ‘bestie’ made his comeback
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Brendan O’Neill
Muriel Degauque: Islamo-fascist, freedom fighter or what?
The Belgian brunette didn't only blow up herself in Baghdad - she also blew to bits the various stereotypes of Islamic terrorists.
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| Monday 5 December 2005 |
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William Melotti
Down with ‘call-centre justice’
One writer explains why he thinks mechanised law enforcement is bad for justice - and bad for law and order.
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Jennie Bristow
Civil partnerships: let’s get one thing straight
The UK government has its own reasons for pushing a form of gay marriage - and it’s not about equality, or even being nice.
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| Tuesday 6 December 2005 |
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Rob Lyons
Mobile phones and health, information and fear
Report on the spiked/O2 seminar.
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Josie Appleton
David Cameron: A blank slate
The Tory Party’s new leader has risen to the top by not saying much about anything.
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| Wednesday 7 December 2005 |
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Jonny Thakkar
The winds of illiberalism blow through Chicago
From our man in the Windy City: the latest place to ban smoking in public.
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Brendan O’Neill
Why Saddam’s trial is so trying for the coalition
The 'trial of the century' has descended into a 'comedy show'.
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| Thursday 8 December 2005 |
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Timandra Harkness
Homeopathy: diluting the evidence
The bold claims of a new study don't hold water.
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Phil Mullan
Ageing and the ‘pensions crisis’
Never mind the Pensions Commission: we can afford the future without saving our pennies and keeping pensioners in poverty.
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Josie Appleton
Drink-spiking scare: shots of anxiety
A new police study finds little evidence of drug-assisted rape. So why are awareness-raising campaigns getting into full swing?
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| Friday 9 December 2005 |
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 9 December
Gazza: why we binge on this binge-drinker’s misfortunes.
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Neil Davenport
The elites, masses and racism
The aftermath of Anthony Walker's murder shows that it's working-class whites who are now seen as the scum of the earth.
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Sandy Starr
Pinter: good playwright, bad politician
Harold Pinter's Nobel speech highlighted the chasm between his literary insights and childish worldview.
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Mick Hume
Olympics 2012: sport-for-anything-but-sport’s-sake
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Rob Lyons
What about a Routemaster for the twenty-first century?
The shift from the old double decker to the new bendy-bus reveals officialdom's disparaging view of The People.
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| Monday 12 December 2005 |
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Jennie Bristow
A dark day for whom?
The Buncefield blaze has set the British media ablaze with conspiracy theories and doomsday fantasies, while the news is reported by amateurs.
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| Tuesday 13 December 2005 |
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Shirley Dent
Why polemics are killing poetry
Anti-war cod-poems 'silently beg you to SCREAM'.
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Brendan O’Neill
Bin Laden’s script: ghost-written in the West
One thing is clear from the new book Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden - the al-Qaeda leader doesn't have an original thought in his head.
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Rob Lyons
Keeping Kyoto on life support
Why world leaders bend their knee to the Protocol even as they fail to meet its demands.
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| Wednesday 14 December 2005 |
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Josie Appleton
Bringing democracy into disrepute
The quangocracy’s case against London Mayor Ken Livingstone should be thrown out of court.
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| Thursday 15 December 2005 |
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 15 December
Space Cadets: a comedy of cynicism.
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Ben Walford
New Toryism: easy listening politics
David Cameron's 'big challenges' get some young Londoners humming along - but does that mean he's 'the future'?
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Kevin Yuill
Treating doctors like murder suspects
The trial of Dr Howard Martin shows how the process of dying is becoming a sordid battleground.
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Mick Hume
David Cameron and the demise of Conservatism
We now have a non-Tory leading the Conservative Party, to go with our non-Labourite leader of the Labour Party.
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| Friday 16 December 2005 |
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Mick Hume
After Hemel Hempstead: Attack of the Killer News Headlines!
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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James Heartfield
Humanitarian interventionists dig in
In his new book Anti-Totalitarianism, Oliver Kamm makes a shrill and inconsistent defence of the Iraq war.
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Neil Davenport
The other Outback trial
Joanne Lees was found guilty by the media for refusing to play the role of traumatised victim.
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| Monday 19 December 2005 |
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Shirley Lawes
What’s lost in translation
Promoting foreign language learning as a functional business skill won't inspire anybody to go beyond 'au revoir'.
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Jennie Bristow
Reservoir Dolls?
A new study finds that little girls torture their Barbies. At least they know the difference between fantasy and reality.
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| Wednesday 21 December 2005 |
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Munira Mirza
Teaching adults about ‘scary Santa’
How did patronising advice for parents about the perils of Christmas end up on a government-funded website?
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Nancy McDermott
Don’t mention the C-word
The word 'Christmas' is conspicuous by its absence in NYC.
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Stephen Bremner
Eat, drink and be merry
Pay no heed to seasonal advice from official gloom-merchants.
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Josie Appleton
Who Killed Christmas
There's no 'war on Christmas' from without – only a lack of belief within.
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| Thursday 22 December 2005 |
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Josie Appleton
In search of utopia
Does utopian thinking offer a route out of today's political doldrums?
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Daniel Ben-Ami
Capitalism as if the world matters more than we do
In his new book, Jonathon Porritt dresses up a demand for austerity in the language of environmentalism.
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| Friday 23 December 2005 |
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Grace Chua
The Blue Man Group
A great show - if you're a five-year-old.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 23 December
What's Really in Your Christmas Dinner: bingeing on food snobbery.
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Neil Davenport
Worth more than a Peep
You know that Peepshow is cutting-edge comedy when it gets ignored by the boring conformists of the British Comedy Awards.
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Mick Hume
From mistletoe and wine to misanthropy and whingeing
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Rob Lyons
No room at the inn for smokers
...or even in their own homes, if health officials have their way.
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| Wednesday 28 December 2005 |
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Nathalie Rothschild
March of the Penguins
How did a National Geographic documentary spark discussions about everything from God to climate change?
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Alan Miller
Free thinking?
A report on the recent Cato Institute conference in New York.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 28 December
And it's good night from him: Dolan Cummings' last TV column.
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Josie Appleton
The story of myself
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, pictures the rise and fall of individual identity.
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Brendan O’Neill
An unholy marriage
Catholic reactionaries and secular miserabilists have joined forces to spoil our fun.
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Mick Hume
2005: No ‘Annus Horribilis’ for humanity
Why use the Asian tsunami as the defining image of life this year?
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