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| 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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| Monday 3 October 2011 |
The Melancholia of the middle classes
Lars von Trier’s new film brilliantly teases out the link between the rot of the bourgeois mind and the rise of apocalyptic fantasies.
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| Friday 30 September 2011 |
‘It is time that we reclaimed liberalism’
Frank Furedi talks to Brendan O’Neill about his new book On Tolerance and why he wants to halt and reverse the warping of the liberal outlook.
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| Wednesday 28 September 2011 |
How can there be a ‘war for Labour’s soul’ when Labour has no soul?
Labour activists’ delusions have reached pathological proportions. They need our help.
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| Friday 23 September 2011 |
‘It is time that we reclaimed liberalism’
Frank Furedi talks to Brendan O’Neill about his new book On Tolerance and why he wants to halt and reverse the warping of the liberal outlook.
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| Tuesday 20 September 2011 |
Message to protesters: Basildon is not Bosnia
The invasion of Dale Farm by everyone from the UN to Amnesty to Fergal bloody Keane shows how desperate activists are for a Bosnia replay.
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| Thursday 15 September 2011 |
How a few burqa-clad militants terrified the West
The so-called ‘Kabul offensive’ by the Taliban was nothing like the Tet Offensive in Vietnam – but it’s telling that the two are being compared.
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| Tuesday 13 September 2011 |
The bizarre battle over fifty pence
Neither the rich folk campaigning against the 50p tax rate, nor the radicals desperately defending it, have very much to recommend them.
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| Wednesday 31 August 2011 |
Libya and the shameless rewriting of history
The repackaging of NATO’s reckless intervention as a clever war for liberty would make Orwell’s Ministry of Truth beam with pride.
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| Friday 26 August 2011 |
Why the Third World poor must continue living in shit
A new book about the world in 2050 says explicitly what other green-leaning tomes hint at: that fixing global poverty will only harm the planet.
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| Thursday 25 August 2011 |
It’s a civil war, Jim, but not as we know it
The rebel forces in Libya have not so much won Tripoli as they have tiptoed into a vacuum left by the disintegration of the Gaddafi regime.
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| Tuesday 23 August 2011 |
Society falling apart? Blame it on The Gang!
You’d never know it from listening to politicians or perusing the press, but there’s no ‘gang culture’ in Britain.
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| Monday 22 August 2011 |
Burnt Oak: it ain’t all doom and gloom
Brendan O’Neill thinks a play about his hometown is overly concerned with titillating middle-class theatregoers.
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| Thursday 18 August 2011 |
Riotous youth: hang ’em high or hug ’em hard?
Why spiked is taking neither side in the great national handwringing over whether looters should get jail time or tough love.
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| Monday 15 August 2011 |
These rioters are not ‘Thatcher’s offspring’
To blame neoliberalism (whatever that is) for the riots is to provide an Idiot’s Guide to Social Decay.
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| Friday 12 August 2011 |
Never mind the looters, what about the ‘fascists’?
The moral assaults on the Enfield ‘vigilantes’ confirm that the cultural elite fears the white working classes more than it does riotous youth.
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| Wednesday 10 August 2011 |
This spinelessness is an invitation to riot
By shutting down normal life in response to some hooded youth, the authorities actually inflamed the instability.
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| Tuesday 9 August 2011 |
London’s burning: a mob made by the welfare state
Yes, there’s a ‘political context’ to the riots: it is that British youth have been so suckled by the state they have zero sense of community spirit.
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| Monday 8 August 2011 |
Syria and the hole at the heart of the Arab revolts
Events in Syria suggest that nobody has the authority to resolve the Arab crisis – not the US, not the regimes, and sadly not the rebels either.
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| Thursday 4 August 2011 |
The myth of a crazy,
all-powerful PC army
In a speech in Sydney, Brendan O’Neill called on critics of PC to stop playing the victim and to start acting like proper, self-respecting heretics.
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