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Alex Gourevitch and Nicholas Frayn
Avoiding the state of the union
Bush's Middle Eastern policy is in chaos - so why was it the centrepiece of his presidential address?
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 2 February
The police are cracking down on badge-kissing celebrations.
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Ben Walford
There’s more to life than security
If ‘freedom from harm’ is the ultimate right, liberty loses out.
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Niall Crowley
That joke isn’t funny anymore
What's the point of satire when comedians fail to tackle the new taboos?
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Neil Davenport
Who skews crime reporting?
Before fantasising about institutional racism in the media, police chief Sir Ian Blair should read some newspapers - and the Met's own press releases.
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Dolan Cummings
The making of Mozart
spiked-TV: Let's wind up the nature/nurture debate about musical genius. Life is more complicated than that.
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Jennie Bristow
Transport trends: the good news
A new government report shows that the British public is more mobile than ever before. But policy-makers see that as a problem.
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| Friday 3 February 2006 |
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Munira Mirza
The press should be free to ridicule Islam
On the European controversy about those Danish cartoons.
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Mick Hume
Free speech, not ‘Me! Me! Me! speech’
Read spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London) on the religious hatred bill.
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| Monday 6 February 2006 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
A sickening White Paper
The government's proposed 'health MOTs' will merely encourage more and more people to see themselves as ill.
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Mick Hume
Those cartoons: a caricatured argument
All of this heat about the Danish cartoons is shedding no light on the important questions of free speech, genuine tolerance, multiculturalism and society today.
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| Tuesday 7 February 2006 |
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Jennie Bristow
Herceptin: The politics of ‘Her Too’
The ongoing controversy over the breast cancer 'wonder drug' has become divisive and dangerous.
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| Thursday 9 February 2006 |
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Austin Williams
New Orleans and the New Urban vision
Progressive architects have left the building.
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Emilie Bickerton
Hidden: Guilty viewing
spiked-film: Is Michel Haneke's new film worth seeking out?
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Peter Smith
Flight pledge: Grounding passengers
Who wants to sign an agreement to limit the number of flights we take a year?
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Mike Clough
Lotto killjoys
Experts warn that winning millions could ruin your life. Chance would be a fine thing.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 9 February
There is a gulf between Geordie delusions of grandeur and Newcastle's woeful under-achievement.
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Chris Pile
Chimps and humans: what’s in a name?
Whether we classify chimpanzees as pan or homo is a matter for evolutionary biology - not morality.
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Josie Appleton
Can technology make us more or less human?
A new publication explores the hopes and fears for smart pills, life extension and cosmetic surgery.
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Brendan O’Neill
Abu Hamza: imprisoned for talking rubbish
His incarceration for incitement is the political equivalent of a panto villain being booed off stage by excitable kids.
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| Friday 10 February 2006 |
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Mick Hume
How could this ranting crank ‘brainwash’ anybody?
Read spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London) on Abu Hamza.
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| Monday 13 February 2006 |
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Josie Appleton
A tale of two demos
Saturday's demonstration of moderate Muslims was presented as a peaceful counter to last week's aggressive gathering. In fact, similar resentments seemed to simmer beneath both.
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| Tuesday 14 February 2006 |
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David Perks
Testing adult authority
The UK government wants to turn teachers into shock troops against kids' bad behaviour. Not surprisingly, teachers aren't too keen.
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Alan Miller
New York debates Iraq
A series of debates about US foreign policy ranged from dull predictability to childish ranting. Isn't there another way?
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Brendan O’Neill
Gordon Brown’s tyranny of security
What life, liberty and politics would be like if he were to become prime minister.
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| Thursday 16 February 2006 |
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Alexandra Jackson
Making a novelty of youth
Is our obsession with instant celebrity cutting off young novelists in the bud?
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Stephen Bremner
Yes Man? No thanks
Danny Wallace’s popular cod-philosophy that it’s good to say yes is more conservative than it sounds.
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Neil Davenport
It’s not a fair cop, guv
spiked-TV: How Life on Mars, the BBC’s send-up of Seventies cop-show The Sweeney, missed the mark.
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Dolan Cummings
A victory for the inner teacher’s pet
There’s much more at stake here than the ‘right to smoke’.
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Rob Lyons
Smoking out the facts
The ban on public smoking is justified as a measure to protect workers from second-hand smoke. But how big is the risk?
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| Friday 17 February 2006 |
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Brendan O’Neill
George Clooney’s black-and-white politics
spiked-film: Good Night and Good Luck, Clooney's tribute to broadcasters who stood up to Joseph McCarthy, is a deeply conservative movie.
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Mick Hume
Why Labour begrudges grammar schools
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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| Tuesday 21 February 2006 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Free speech in Europe: it’s all or nothing
As British historian David Irving is imprisoned in Austria for Holocaust denial, read this spiked article first published in December last year.
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Jennie Bristow
How-to politics
Geoff Mulgan's new organisation Involve seeks to 'put people at the heart of decision-making'. But what decisions, and why?
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The stigma of smoking
As the smoker has become a pariah, sufferers from lung cancer have become the lepers of the twenty-first century.
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| Thursday 23 February 2006 |
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Grace Chua
Municipal why fi?
Will Islington Council's wireless internet connections really 'promote social inclusion'?
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Graham Barnfield
Death in the Ozon layer
spiked-film: Unlike other films, François Ozon’s Le Temps Qui Reste manages to do ‘dying with dignity’ well.
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Alexandra Jackson
Frey’s fictional memory syndrome
Does it matter if misery memoirs are not absolutely true?
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 23 February
The FA may be pawning the family silverware, but sponsorship is not the reason the Cup has been devalued.
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Kristina Cook
Pro-Test: supporting animal testing
A new campaign by Oxford students makes the case for scientific progress and medical research.
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Josie Appleton
Speciesism: a beastly concept
Why it is morally right to use animals to our ends.
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Philip Cunliffe
Balkanisation by another name
In the talks about Kosovo's future, the former Yugoslavia is being treated as a carcass to be dissected by Western diplomats.
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Rob Lyons
Bird flu: an infectious panic
Even if bird flu does transform into a human pandemic, we are better placed to tackle it than ever before in history.
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Brendan O’Neill
Gossip dressed up as investigative journalism
Conspiracy theories about everything from Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to spiked writers are polluting the mainstream media.
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Mick Hume
Bird flu and Chicken Little culture
Why are critics of the politics of fear turning into scaremongers about the threat of an avian flu pandemic?
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| Friday 24 February 2006 |
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Mick Hume
Animal testing: Qui vive?
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Brendan O’Neill
My co-dependent relationship with daytime TV
spiked-TV: How I got lured into that twilight world of white trash-baiting and gay conformism.
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| Tuesday 28 February 2006 |
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Jennie Bristow
Gender pay gap: what’s it worth?
There's more to life than equal pay.
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Josie Appleton
Don’t touch those kids!
New research reveals why teachers and childcare workers now avoid putting a plaster on a child's leg - even though they know the rules are ridiculous.
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