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Mick Hume
Our man in Istanbul - and Woking…
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's columns from The Times (London) this week.
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Tessa Mayes
More news from the world, please
Whatever you think of the tabloid editor who bugged Princes Charles and William, the fact is reporters must sometimes break the law.
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Duleep Allirajah
We want to win, but expect to lose
Ba'athist motivational techniques might be a bit much, but we need some way of giving English sport a boot up the backside.
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Rob Lyons
Still not ‘ethical’ after all these years
A report saying our buying habits are increasingly driven by ethical concerns made some fairly unethical contortions to reach that conclusion.
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| Sunday 3 December 2006 |
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Emily Hill
PostSecret: wish you weren’t here
The secrets scribbled on postcards and exhibited in a London gallery don't provide an 'emotional x-ray'. In fact, they're shallow and samey.
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Rob Lyons
Frost/Nixon: 'An intellectual Rocky'
Peter Morgan's dramatisation of David Frost's interview with the disgraced US president gives a very human take on a little slice of history.
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Paul Bickerton
From playground to podium: how to make an Olympian
Children need both freedom and guidance to excel at sports - and they're in danger of being denied both in today's risk-averse climate.
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| Tuesday 5 December 2006 |
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Helen Birtwistle
A ‘dick on a string’?
Those calling for an extension of the Dangerous Dogs Act - 'the worst piece of legislation ever written' - seem most frightened of 'dangerous owners'.
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Emily Hill
Santa’s grotty
It's hard to know which is more pathetic: the standard of art at Banksy's Christmas-bashing shop in Oxford Street, or the losers paying a fortune for it.
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Brendan O’Neill
Welcome to the stay-at-home society
A new anti-movement movement is trying to put the brakes on cars and planes. Do they want to propel us back to medieval times?
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| Wednesday 6 December 2006 |
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Mark Adnum
Sold short by Shortbus
The arthouse film titillating a certain class of cinemagoer claims to be about the mind and the heart. In fact, it's just porn with a moral message.
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Ken McLaughlin
Scare in the community
Alarming-sounding reports on homicides by mental patients are being used by the UK government to justify draconian new laws.
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Mick Hume
Trident: a damp squib of a debate
What could be even more pathetic than Blair’s case for renewing Britain’s nuclear deterrent? How about his opponents’ arguments.
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| Thursday 7 December 2006 |
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James Heartfield
Standing up for science
A new collection of essays puts the case for a fresh scientific enlightenment to counter the rise of superstition.
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Josie Appleton
Beware of the boars
From Bavaria to South Africa, rampaging animals are bringing towns to a standstill. Why don't we just shoot them?
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Ethan Greenhart
How can I stop my friend starting a family?
Ask Ethan: Our columnist offers more advice on how to live the green and ethical life.
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| Friday 8 December 2006 |
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Mick Hume
Animals count?
No they don't
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London) this week.
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Duleep Allirajah
5/12: the day English cricket died
England's performance in the Ashes was the daddy of all batting collapses.
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Brendan O’Neill
Who’s the miserabilist of them all?
The first round of nominations in spiked's hunt for the King of the Killjoys.
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| Monday 11 December 2006 |
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Tim Black
A sporting tragedy
In a year of British sporting failure, the main theme of Sports Personality of the Year 2006 was bereavement.
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Neil Davenport
From snobbery to slobbery
The Queen's accent is getting less and less posh, claim Australian scientists. Why is everyone, even ER, slumming it?
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Brendan O’Neill
Time for a backlash against the hate-obsessed state?
After 7/7 we were warned of a possible pogrom against Muslims. If anything, prosecutions for anti-Muslim acts actually fell.
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Stuart Simpson
Starving Africa of money
Deprived of the funds needed to develop their economies by the corruption-obsessed West, African countries are turning to China.
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| Tuesday 12 December 2006 |
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Daniel Ben-Ami
Worse than Scrooge
Underlying the frequently expressed concerns about personal debt is a distaste for popular consumption.
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Jane Sandeman
The battle of the lunchbox
Parents are quite capable of feeding their children - despite what the government's School Food Trust would have us believe.
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| Wednesday 13 December 2006 |
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Mick Hume
Pinochet: the Ghost of Politics Past
He's dead and buried, along with his era. Time to get over it and move on.
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Nathalie Rothschild
A slap In the Face of History
The inspiring content of an exhibition of twentieth-century photography is undermined by the curators' emphasis on the particular and the subjective.
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Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to attend an office Christmas party?
Ask Ethan: Our columnist offers advice on how to negotiate the dangers of the 'festive' season.
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Frank Furedi
Do they know it’s Christmas?
Forget 'Peace on Earth' - Christmas has become a battleground in the culture war over the status of religion.
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| Thursday 14 December 2006 |
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Mick Hume
Diana report: an accident waiting to happen
Read Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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| Friday 15 December 2006 |
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Duleep Allirajah
Come on and do the conga
The desperate attempt to find examples of British sporting excellence means we're redefining what 'sport' means.
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Emily Hill
Have yourself a killjoy Christmas
In the second round of nominations, spiked approaches the great and the good in the ongoing quest to expose the King of the Killjoys 2006.
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Mick Hume
Turning murder into reality TV
From police and reporters to criminologists and psychologists - everybody seems to want a walk-on part in the 'Suffolk Ripper' show.
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| Sunday 17 December 2006 |
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Ed Barrett
The Life of Python
Michael Palin's diaries and the digitally remastered Monty Python albums show that these comedy greats are not quite dead parrots.
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Mark Vernon
Thomas Henry Huxley: a better bulldog
An agnostic ex-vicar says Richard Dawkins could learn a thing or two from a humbler 'Darwinian bulldog' of the 1860s.
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Michael Fitzpatrick
The Dawkins delusion
'Catholic atheist' Michael Fitzpatrick finds himself repelled by Richard Dawkins' crass and prejudiced polemic against religion.
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| Monday 18 December 2006 |
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Miserabilist of the Year
Killjoy to the world
Quake ye cantankerous gits: it's the third and final round of nominations in spiked’s hunt for the Miserabilist of the Year.
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| Tuesday 19 December 2006 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Blair plots PR coup in Palestine
It's that time of year again, when our leaders use the Middle East as a platform for moral posturing.
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| Wednesday 20 December 2006 |
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Julia Svetlichnaja and James Heartfield
Caught up in a new Cold War
When we interviewed Alexander Litvinenko, we had no idea we would end up being branded as Kremlin agents.
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Josie Appleton
There’s more to childhood than counting calories
The obsession with expanding waistlines is narrowing horizons for children - and replacing adult guidance with health tips.
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Miserabilist of the Year
And the whiner is…
Meet the winner of the inaugural Miserabilist of the Year Award: the prudish and prudent Presbyterian killjoy heading for Downing Street.
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| Thursday 21 December 2006 |
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Ethan Greenhart
How to have an ethical Winterval
Ask Ethan: Our columnist offers tips for having resource-neutral fun during the silliest of seasons.
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Sadhavi Sharma
Why these patronising gifts get my goat
Giving donkeys, goats, therapy or campaigning packs to developing countries only helps to reinforce Third World poverty.
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Duleep Allirajah
Putting the ‘boxing’ into Boxing Day
Bad-tempered derby matches on 26 December are one of football's finest traditions - and the perfect antidote to the soporific message of Christmas.
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Mick Hume
The year we nearly went mad
From celebrity colonialism and Muslim-mania to flying backwards and resurrecting dead gods: some trends of 2006.
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| Thursday 28 December 2006 |
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Nathalie Rothschild
Dancing penguins and other holiday turkeys
A taste of what the cinemas were serving up this Christmas.
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Helene Guldberg
A hard cell
Eve Herold on why we should take sides in the Stem Cell Wars, and cheer those scientists pushing the boundaries.
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Neil Davenport
The Sopranos: still the Greatest Show On Earth
The latest batch of tales from New Jersey's mafia lowlife shows this series has its finger right on the pulse of US society.
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Jennie Bristow
Why I won’t be joining the ‘Bad Mothers Club’
There's something creepy in the latest literary genre that celebrates stressful, even bad, motherhood as an identity.
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Brendan O’Neill
Let’s make 2007 the Year of Real Tolerance
...and not the vacuous, censorious kind promoted in Xmas messages by the Queen and Channel 4.
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