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| Wednesday 15 May 2013 |
St Angelina, save
us from ourselves!
The beatification of Angelina Jolie for writing about her mastectomy confirms that celebrity culture has reached new and hysterical heights.
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| Thursday 9 May 2013 |
The phoney border
war over immigration
The fallout from the Queen’s Speech confirms that today neither right nor left views immigrants as real, breathing human beings.
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| Tuesday 30 April 2013 |
Iain Banks and the death of privacy
The press releases and Twittergrief over the Scottish author’s coming demise from cancer confirm that dying has become a public spectacle.
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| Wednesday 17 April 2013 |
Five things liberals love that Thatcher invented
From safe sex to incapacity benefit, today’s shrill Thatcher-bashers are actually continuing Mrs T’s worst work.
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| Monday 15 April 2013 |
Freedom can never be ‘granted’ to us
Brendan O’Neill’s recent speech imploring young libertarians to keep their eyes peeled for ‘phony freedoms’.
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| Thursday 11 April 2013 |
Gay marriage: a case study in conformism
Anyone who values diversity of thought and tolerance of dissent should find the sweeping consensus on gay marriage terrifying.
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| Tuesday 9 April 2013 |
The myth of Thatcherism
The idea that Britain’s problems are all the fault of the evil ‘Mrs T’ distorts history, and lets the left and Labour off the hook.
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| Tuesday 2 April 2013 |
Saving footie fans from their inner fascist
The increasingly unhinged moral crusade against racism in football is anti-prole loathing dressed up as high liberal principle.
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| Wednesday 27 March 2013 |
Eco-obedience: a lifetime of Lent with no pay-off
Comparing Pope Francis to Francis of Assisi is mad; unlike today’s miserable green Vatican, Assisi's self-denial had some spiritual purpose.
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| Tuesday 19 March 2013 |
Don’t blame Hacked Off for this crisis of liberty
Screeching at Hugh Grant is a displacement activity for intellectuals who can’t explain or reverse the historic corrosion of press freedom.
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| Wednesday 13 March 2013 |
The SWP: slain by cynical scandal-milkers
The socialists have joined the Catholic Church and the BBC as victims of a corrosive zeitgeist that views all institutions as nests of perverts.
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| Thursday 7 March 2013 |
Chavez’s cheerleaders: parasites on US impotence
Far from doing battle with US imperial hegemony, Hugo Chavez and his Western fans merely danced on the grave of America’s withered global clout.
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| Wednesday 20 February 2013 |
Piggybacking the Pistorius tragedy
Even before the body of Reeva Steenkamp had been cremated, various moral entrepreneurs were milking her killing for political ends.
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| Tuesday 12 February 2013 |
Is the pope Catholic?
The praise heaped on Benedict XVI for effectively destroying the idea of papal infallibility speaks to the flighty, narcissistic nature of our times.
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| Monday 11 February 2013 |
Saving Sun readers from themselves
Feminist campaigners against Page 3 are driven by the same misanthropy as every other censor in history.
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| Tuesday 5 February 2013 |
Need to be rebranded? Support gay marriage!
As the debate in the UK Conservative Party shows, backing gay marriage is now an entirely self-serving, hide-saving pose.
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| Thursday 31 January 2013 |
Do we live in a ‘pornified’ world?
Yes, there’s an increasingly ugly culture of sexualisation, but the government campaign against it will get us nowhere.
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| Friday 25 January 2013 |
Israeli settlers: the new 'niggers' of global affairs
Bidisha's remarkably candid assault on abnormal, thuggish, lying, zombie-like Israelis confirms that they're the one group of foreigners it's acceptable to fear and loathe these days.
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| Tuesday 22 January 2013 |
How Cameron created the chaos in north Africa
It takes great shamelessness for the PM to wring his hands over the crises in Mali and Algeria, seeing as his attack on Libya nurtured them.
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| Wednesday 16 January 2013 |
Loyalists: the pariahs of the peace process
The rioting over the Union flag illuminates the tragedy of modern loyalism: these people are loyal to a world that no longer exists.
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