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| Wednesday 23 September 2009 |
Has China had a green ‘Damascene conversion’?
The sight of President Hu almost apologising to the West for his country’s vast economic growth was a revealing snapshot of our times.
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| Thursday 3 September 2009 |
This was a cock-up, not a conspiracy
The real story of the Megrahi affair is not the duplicity of the British government, but its utter cluelessness.
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| Thursday 27 August 2009 |
Yes, it’s a return to the dark ages of football...
...when hysteria about hooliganism was rife, anti-working class prejudice was widespread, and there was a clamour for authoritarian solutions.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Defend green jobs! Smash ungreen jobs!
Environmentalists are defending jobs at the ‘good’ Vestas wind-turbine factory while ignoring the sacking of workers at ‘evil’ Thomas Cook.
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| Monday 27 July 2009 |
The by-election that nobody won
Yes, the Tories came first – largely by default – but the only real victor in last week’s Norwich North by-election was anti-politics.
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| Thursday 23 July 2009 |
Older people are more than ‘food for worms’
Why this week’s revelation that there will soon be more over-65s than under-fives provoked another bout of hysterical anxiety about ageing.
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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’.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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