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Monday 1 August 2011
‘Did I cause the Norway massacre? That’s just silly’ Thilo Sarrazin, controversial author of Germany Abolishes Itself, tells spiked that those blaming him for Norway are ‘insane’.

Friday 29 July 2011
What is the point of Ed Miliband? If you can overlook its bizarre claim that Ed is a ‘political insurgent’, this biography of the Labour leader provides some unwitting insights into the new species of cut-off politician.

Wednesday 27 July 2011
Truth is the first casualty of war movies A new film about the Russian-Georgian War of August 2008 claims to be ‘based on actual events’. Like hell it is.

Monday 25 July 2011
Don’t turn Norway into Europe’s 11 September Sections of the European liberal elite are trying to make moral mileage out of this rampage just as shamelessly as the right did with 9/11.

Tuesday 19 July 2011
Murdochphobia is not as radical as you think Whatever you think of Rupert Murdoch (I’m not a fan), you should be concerned that bashing him has become the only political game in town.

Friday 8 July 2011
After the News of the World, who’s safe? The unprecedented harrying to extinction of a tabloid newspaper is likely to have a chilling effect across the British media.

Thursday 7 July 2011
What’s really motoring this anti-Murdoch crusade? What the News of the World is alleged to have done is terrible and indefensible. But the fury about it is being driven by something else.

Wednesday 6 July 2011
Celebrate your identity! That is, know your place A new report says fewer workers now define themselves as ‘working class’. Maybe they’re rebelling against the stifling politics of identity.

Friday 24 June 2011
Who’s really afraid of the working classes? Thatcher isn’t to blame for modern-day chav-baiting and anti-working class sentiment. It was fashionable anti-Thatcherites who made a mockery of the lower orders.

Tuesday 21 June 2011
Protests in Greece: the politics of ‘waaah’! The lesson of Athens is that protesters who disavow ideology and embrace spontaneity end up sounding like they’re from another planet.

Wednesday 15 June 2011
Why so many hacks fell for the ‘gay girl in Syria’ Fake blogger Tom MacMaster is not the only person who has magicked up an identity by morally leeching off other people’s conflicts.

Friday 10 June 2011
Who’s really afraid of the working classes? Thatcher isn’t to blame for modern-day chav-baiting. It was fashionable anti-Thatcherites who made a mockery of the lower orders.

Tuesday 7 June 2011
How dare you set up a new university!? The intolerant response to AC Grayling’s New College is driven by hostility towards educational experimentation.

Thursday 2 June 2011
The culture war on toffs and chavs Today’s liberal smart set hates the posh and the poor, seeing both as blasts from a best-forgotten past.

Tuesday 17 May 2011
Dave, Maddie and the politics of grief Cameron has been slated for his foray into the Madeleine McCann case, but he's not the only politician who sees opportunity in bereavement.

Monday 16 May 2011
Close encounters of the chav kind In the comedy alien invasion movie Attack the Block the real aliens are the hooded human yoof.

Thursday 12 May 2011
This pity for bin Laden is just pacifist-nihilism The chattering-class consensus that it was illegal for America to bump off bin Laden is not as radical as some people think.

Monday 9 May 2011
Cleggphobia is as stupid as Cleggmania The transformation of St Nick into Nasty Nick reveals some rather nasty traits amongst the cultural elite.

Friday 6 May 2011
The rise and rise of a pity-for-Osama lobby The chattering classes’ ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with the killing of bin Laden is underpinned more by moral cowardice than political principle.

Wednesday 4 May 2011
The killing of OBL: therapy for the West Why the shooting of a sickly has-been jihadist was turned into a momentous and historic occasion on a par with VJ Day.
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