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| Wednesday 30 December 2009 |
Who killed EastEnders?
Garry Bushell’s 1,001 Reasons Why EastEnders is Pony is not only a rollicking read – it also shines a light on the metaphorical castration of working-class soap characters by BBC bigwigs who have never set foot in the EastEnd.
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| Thursday 17 December 2009 |
What’s liberal about booing off Johnny Ball?
The jeering of a climate sceptic by supposedly liberal atheists confirms that questioning manmade climate change is the new blasphemy.
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| Tuesday 15 December 2009 |
‘We need a planetary one-child policy’
Malthusianism is so widespread that greens can now openly sing the praises of China’s population authoritarianism.
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| Monday 14 December 2009 |
Children’s literature as primal therapy
Where The Wild Things Are is the perfect kids’ story for our child-centred, adult-doubting, wisdom-lite times.
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| Monday 7 December 2009 |
Why Climategate won't stop climate-change alarmism
Those UEA scientists indulged in dodgy academic activity, but they did not invent the politics of global warming.
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| Wednesday 2 December 2009 |
A Sodom and Gomorrah for secular miserabilists
Dubai’s crisis has been cheered by Western observers, for whom the ‘ecocidal’ Gulf state is a symbol of everything rancid about modernity.
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| Thursday 26 November 2009 |
Society is collapsing because you are greedy
Social crises have always been blamed on the extravagance of the rich. But today, all of us - from wealthy to peasant - are labelled ‘decadent’.
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| Monday 23 November 2009 |
Save us from Le Hand of God!
That handball has become a huge diplomatic issue because the Irish invest way too much political hope in football.
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| Thursday 19 November 2009 |
Too many people? No, too many Malthusians
Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and they’re still wrong today.
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| Thursday 12 November 2009 |
Nutts to these anti-alcohol ‘experts’
Last night’s David Nutt debate confirmed that cannabis is now promoted as a means of pacifying young, drunk ruffians.
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| Wednesday 11 November 2009 |
‘Lettergate’ reveals the illiteracy of British politics
The bizarre controversy over Gordon Brown’s letter to a grieving mum shows that we urgently need to improve and deepen political debate.
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| Monday 9 November 2009 |
David Nutt is not the new Galileo
The curious Cult of Nutt, backed by both dopeheads and scientists, is actually denigrating scientific truth.
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| Wednesday 4 November 2009 |
American hippies vs the evil Japanese
The pro-dolphin documentary The Cove exposes how warped are the misanthropic values of the animal-rights lobby.
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| Monday 2 November 2009 |
This ‘revolt of the experts’ is revolting
It was wrong of the government to sack David Nutt. But it’s also wrong for experts to pose as paragons of wisdom who are above democracy.
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| Wednesday 28 October 2009 |
Why they love to hate Mother Teresa
The radical-atheist assaults on the late sister of Calcutta are the intellectual equivalent of mugging an old woman.
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| Friday 23 October 2009 |
The new divide in British politics: Us and Him
Question Time was no victory for rigorous and free debate – it merely confirmed Nick Griffin’s elevation as the voodoo doll of public life.
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| Monday 19 October 2009 |
The fight to re-enfranchise the electorate starts here
If the next General Election is to have any real impact, it must be turned from a technical affair into a big, loud public debate about the future.
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| Thursday 15 October 2009 |
The self-destruction of the House of Commons
The mock-populist backlash on parliamentary expenses poses a serious threat not only to MPs’ bank balances, but to democracy itself.
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| Monday 12 October 2009 |
How Hillary became Empress of Ireland
Hillary Clinton’s head-knocking visit to the Six Counties confirms that Washington has successfully conquered both Ireland and Britain.
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| Monday 5 October 2009 |
A defeat for the democratic instinct
The Second Irish Referendum: the Irish people have spoken, yes, but in the voice of someone put into a headlock by far more powerful forces.
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