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| Thursday 19 November 2009 |
Too many people? No, too many Malthusians
Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and they’re still wrong today.
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| Thursday 12 November 2009 |
Nutts to these anti-alcohol ‘experts’
Last night’s David Nutt debate confirmed that cannabis is now promoted as a means of pacifying young, drunk ruffians.
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| Wednesday 11 November 2009 |
‘Lettergate’ reveals the illiteracy of British politics
The bizarre controversy over Gordon Brown’s letter to a grieving mum shows that we urgently need to improve and deepen political debate.
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| Monday 9 November 2009 |
David Nutt is not the new Galileo
The curious Cult of Nutt, backed by both dopeheads and scientists, is actually denigrating scientific truth.
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| Wednesday 4 November 2009 |
American hippies vs the evil Japanese
The pro-dolphin documentary The Cove exposes how warped are the misanthropic values of the animal-rights lobby.
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| Monday 2 November 2009 |
This ‘revolt of the experts’ is revolting
It was wrong of the government to sack David Nutt. But it’s also wrong for experts to pose as paragons of wisdom who are above democracy.
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| Wednesday 28 October 2009 |
Why they love to hate Mother Teresa
The radical-atheist assaults on the late sister of Calcutta are the intellectual equivalent of mugging an old woman.
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| Friday 23 October 2009 |
The new divide in British politics: Us and Him
Question Time was no victory for rigorous and free debate – it merely confirmed Nick Griffin’s elevation as the voodoo doll of public life.
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| Monday 19 October 2009 |
The fight to re-enfranchise the electorate starts here
If the next General Election is to have any real impact, it must be turned from a technical affair into a big, loud public debate about the future.
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| Thursday 15 October 2009 |
The self-destruction of the House of Commons
The mock-populist backlash on parliamentary expenses poses a serious threat not only to MPs’ bank balances, but to democracy itself.
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| Monday 12 October 2009 |
How Hillary became Empress of Ireland
Hillary Clinton’s head-knocking visit to the Six Counties confirms that Washington has successfully conquered both Ireland and Britain.
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| Monday 5 October 2009 |
A defeat for the democratic instinct
The Second Irish Referendum: the Irish people have spoken, yes, but in the voice of someone put into a headlock by far more powerful forces.
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| Wednesday 30 September 2009 |
Will it be the Sun wot sinks Brown?
The Labour Party’s hate-love relationship with the tabloid newspaper speaks volumes about the demise of Labourism.
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| Tuesday 29 September 2009 |
Refighting the Culture War over Roman Polanski
The furore over his arrest is not about what happened in LA on 10 March 1977 - it’s a pathetic proxy clash between a clapped-out left and right.
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| Wednesday 23 September 2009 |
Has China had a green ‘Damascene conversion’?
The sight of President Hu almost apologising to the West for his country’s vast economic growth was a revealing snapshot of our times.
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| Thursday 3 September 2009 |
This was a cock-up, not a conspiracy
The real story of the Megrahi affair is not the duplicity of the British government, but its utter cluelessness.
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| Thursday 27 August 2009 |
Yes, it’s a return to the dark ages of football...
...when hysteria about hooliganism was rife, anti-working class prejudice was widespread, and there was a clamour for authoritarian solutions.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Defend green jobs! Smash ungreen jobs!
Environmentalists are defending jobs at the ‘good’ Vestas wind-turbine factory while ignoring the sacking of workers at ‘evil’ Thomas Cook.
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| Monday 27 July 2009 |
The by-election that nobody won
Yes, the Tories came first – largely by default – but the only real victor in last week’s Norwich North by-election was anti-politics.
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| Thursday 23 July 2009 |
Older people are more than ‘food for worms’
Why this week’s revelation that there will soon be more over-65s than under-fives provoked another bout of hysterical anxiety about ageing.
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