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Thursday 16 July 2009
‘Low carbon’ is code for low ambitions
The UK’s new climate change plan shows how the green ethos is used to add a gloss of respectability to economic and visionary failure.

Wednesday 15 July 2009
Afghanistan: the war for New Labour’s soul
All of those who are suddenly asking ‘Why are we in Afghanistan?’ should look for the answer, not in Helmand or Kabul, but at home.

Monday 13 July 2009
Rip up the RIP Act
For journalists to demand that other journalists be investigated under the RIP Act is like turkeys marching for more Christmases.

Thursday 9 July 2009
Who’s afraid of billions of people?
In the run-up to the UN’s World Population Day, spiked argues against all attempts to cajole, coerce or convince people into having fewer kids.

Thursday 2 July 2009
Labour: the ghost of government past
The Brown regime’s U-turns on Royal Mail, ID cards and education reveals something shocking: Britain currently has no real government.

Thursday 11 June 2009
The hangdog dictator in Downing Street
It is the cowardice of his own party and lack of moral authority of the other parties that allows the utterly isolated Brown to stay in power.

Wednesday 10 June 2009
The Omagh ruling is bad for all of us
However outraged you were by the 1998 bombing, you should be worried by this week’s ruling against the ‘bombers’.

Monday 8 June 2009
The psycho-politics of a collapsing elite
The most revealing thing about the leaked Mandelson emails is the amateur psychologising of a cut-off government.

Friday 5 June 2009
The shame of the democracy dodgers
James Purnell, Hazel Blears and Jacqui Smith have achieved the remarkable feat of making Gordon Brown look almost principled.

Monday 1 June 2009
The implosion of the political class
The expenses scandal is not A Very English Revolution. It looks more like the self-destruction of the House of Commons.

Monday 11 May 2009
Turning Gurkhas into a new ‘Victim Race’
The bizarre Battle of the Excluded Gurkha, led by Joanna Lumley, sheds light on the crisis of meaning in today’s Tory and Labour parties.

Tuesday 21 April 2009
The 10 craziest things about Boylemania
Yes she’s a good singer, but there’s no excuse for turning Susan Boyle into a theological, moral and political symbol.

Thursday 16 April 2009
‘Smeargate’ and the suicide of the elite
The rumour-mongering of top New Labour officials is only the most twisted expression yet of the institutional corrosion of the political class.

Tuesday 14 April 2009
Turning Ian Tomlinson into the Princess Diana of protest
The campaign over the death of a bystander on the G20 protest has little to do with seriously challenging the police or defending liberty.

Tuesday 7 April 2009
A people’s rebellion against the cancer cops?
If it’s true that the British public is ignoring cacophonous cancer warnings, that isn’t a sign of stupidity: it’s the height of rationality.

Wednesday 1 April 2009
Mixing with Malthusians
spiked editor Brendan O’Neill ventured into a pit of population-controllers, and found himself holding his nose.

Thursday 26 March 2009
Beware the Freds under the bed!
The attack on Fred Goodwin’s home is the result of an out-of-control anti-banker witch hunt that was cynically kickstarted by the elite.

Monday 23 March 2009
Jade and the tyranny of ‘anti-racism’
Everyone remembers the tabloid witch-hunting of Jade Goody. But the broadsheet witch hunt was far more terrifying.

Tuesday 17 March 2009
The state of the Union
What can ‘Brits Out!’ mean today when Britain has withdrawn from Northern Ireland emotionally and spiritually, if not physically?

Thursday 12 March 2009
IRA splinter groups: ghosts from history?
It is not the Real or Continuity IRA that is plunging Northern Ireland back into the past. It is the ‘peace process’.

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