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Thursday 2 February 2012
Banker-bashers: a lynch mob with PhDs
The mad political pursuit of ‘evil’ Fred Goodwin confirms that bankers are to posh commentators what paedos are to tabloid hacks.

Monday 30 January 2012
The moral hijacking of Bloody Sunday
On the 40th anniversary of the paratroopers’ massacre in Derry, it is remarkable how much Britain has exploited this event to its advantage.

Tuesday 24 January 2012
‘This is becoming an
anti-tabloid witch-hunt’

Read the transcript of CBC’s interview with Brendan O’Neill about Leveson, lies and press freedom.

Wednesday 18 January 2012
Let’s have a proper debate about the welfare state
Hooked on poverty porn, getting the unelected Lords to do their dirty work... there’s little progressive about today’s welfare-defenders.

Thursday 5 January 2012
Lawrence case: the elephant in the room
The double-jeopardy rule survived the Dark Ages, but it could not survive the New Labour years.

Tuesday 3 January 2012
Using tabloid tactics to slay the tabloids
The Guardian's retraction of the Charlotte Church story brings to 40 the number of anti-Murdoch articles it has had to correct.

Thursday 29 December 2011
How protest became a prisoner of the media
Once, radicals used the media to try to spread their ideas. In 2011, the media class used radicals to spread its ideas.

Friday 16 December 2011
Hitchens vs Hitchens: a clash of civilisations
Following the death of Christopher Hitchens, we republish Brendan O’Neill’s interview with him and his brother Peter from 10 years ago.

Monday 28 November 2011
Why we’ll need spiked more than ever in 2012
Next year, spiked will pursue an Olympian struggle against political groupthink - but to do that, we need the help of people like you.

Thursday 24 November 2011
Three cheers for the second Egyptian uprising
Those confused by the return of the masses in Cairo have failed to learn a key lesson of history: democratic protesters are not easily placated.

Tuesday 15 November 2011
Occupy London in cahoots with coppers
Far from being enemies of the state, the St Paul’s occupiers are helping the police arrest political undesirables.

Thursday 10 November 2011
Greece's austerity junta: Regime of the Technocrats
Brendan O’Neill reports from Athens on how the EU is using financial blackmail to force cash-
strapped Greece to suspend democratic politics.


Monday 7 November 2011
Welcome to the era of the post-moral panic
In our morally unanchored society, elite fearmongers prefer to use so-called science rather than moralism to reshape our behaviour.

Monday 31 October 2011
Call off this culture
war against ‘the poor’

In a speech for the Liberty League in London, Brendan O’Neill denounced the dictatorship of
do-gooders colonising poor communities.


Monday 24 October 2011
The leeches and legalists squabbling over Gaddafi
Neither Western leaders trying to wring moral mileage out of Gaddafi's death, nor UN officials denouncing it as illegal, deserve our backing.

Thursday 20 October 2011
Occupy London: a ragbag of political conformists
The occupiers think that by eschewing leaders and ideology they become immune to dogmatic thinking. The precise opposite is the case.

Monday 17 October 2011
These Fox-hunters can’t see the wood for the trees
The anti-Liam Fox lobby didn’t stop to ask: what does it say about today’s civil service that many ministers now fall back on their friends?

Wednesday 12 October 2011
Beware Malthusians posing as progressives
Don’t be fooled by the fashionable new crowd of Malthus-bashing greens: they’re as misanthropic as old-style population scaremongers.

Friday 7 October 2011
In defence of Steve Jobs
The idea that Jobs and his brilliant Apple gadgets were responsible for alienation in the West and for ‘slavery’ in the East is i-nonsense on stilts.

Thursday 6 October 2011
Meet the PC oligarchy that now rules Britain
The Tory conference confirmed that politics has been colonised by experts, hacks and snobs who are utterly insulated from the madding crowd.

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2 February 2012
Banker-bashers: a lynch mob with PhDs
6 February 2012
No Jubilee for republicans
– or royalists
Divorcing marriage from morality

3 February 2012:
If a film is this pretty, who cares if it’s true?


3 February 2012:
Adapting Birdsong and finding gay footballers