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| Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
Let’s veto the West’s moral posturing on Syria
There is more logic to Russia’s and China’s veto of the UN resolution condemning Assad than there is to William Hague’s sixth-former antics.
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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?
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| 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.
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| 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.
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