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Thursday 16 December 2010
Hating Wills’n’Kate: the new conformism The smart set’s disdain for the royal engagement is driven less by republicanism than by a desire to prove their superiority to the masses.

Tuesday 30 November 2010
Wikileaks: this isn’t journalism ‑ it’s voyeurism High-minded newspapers’ celebration of the latest Wikileaks revelations is a cynical attempt to turn voyeurism into a virtue.

Tuesday 16 November 2010
Cameron’s happiness index: counting smiley faces The government’s plan to measure the nation’s emotional wellbeing marks an unhappy shift in the relationship between the state and people.

Wednesday 10 November 2010
It’s time to stand up for courage and conviction Machiavelli and other humanists would have been appalled by today’s bureaucratisation of everyday life that threatens vital public virtues.

Wednesday 27 October 2010
France: a ‘revolution’ to preserve the status quo In the past, youthful rebels were heroically indifferent to their long-term security. The French protesters are obsessed with theirs.

Monday 11 October 2010
Inviting us to bow down before the god of fortune Today’s deification of fear encourages us to succumb to fate. But we should learn from the Romans and seek to subdue Fortuna.

Monday 4 October 2010
‘Red Ed’ can’t disguise the fact that Labour is dead Don’t let the flurry of debate about what Ed Miliband will do next distract from the real story: the historic crisis of social democracy.

Thursday 16 September 2010
Crusade against the pope: an Inquisition-in-Reverse The campaigners against the pope’s visit have more in common with the fanatical Inquisitors of old than with Enlightened liberal humanists.

Thursday 9 September 2010
Why 9/11 gave rise to a carnival of confusion The massive, unnecessary storm over the US pastor planning to burn some Korans speaks to the post-9/11 disarray of Western society.

Tuesday 24 August 2010
Down Under: the danse macabre of labourism The political quake in Australia echoes what is also occurring in Britain and across Europe: the final demise of social democracy.

Thursday 19 August 2010
Nick Clegg takes ‘parental determinism’ to a new low It is mad to claim, as the deputy PM does, that poor parenting is more important than poverty in screwing up children’s life chances.

Tuesday 10 August 2010
Parenting isn’t a bunch of skills that can be taught Frank Field’s proposal to have a GCSE in parenting would denigrate both what it means to be a parent and the purpose of education.

Monday 21 June 2010
Why BP is not very slick in an emergency When companies adhere to the rituals of risk-aversion, they lose sight of how to deal with real emergencies. Now we can see the consequences.

Tuesday 15 June 2010
Why I will always stand up for permissiveness The liberal commentators now deifying Mary Whitehouse are wrong to blame Sixties experimentation for contemporary decadence.

Tuesday 25 May 2010
A showtrial of children for being naughty The conviction of two boys for attempted rape is not only a travesty of justice – it also exposes society’s screwed-up attitude towards childhood.

Monday 10 May 2010
Bad bigots and good bigots: politics after the election Gillian Duffy was written off as a ‘bigot’ by the same liberal elite that sanctions bigotry and hatred towards its political opponents.

Tuesday 4 May 2010
The day the political oligarchy stood exposed ‘Bigotgate’ is the most telling moment of the election, capturing the unspoken clash of values and attitudes between the rulers and the ruled.

Monday 26 April 2010
Why scepticism is still ‘the highest of duties’ Scepticism is widely denounced as a poison and a disease today, just as it was in the Dark Ages. We urgently need to rescue its reputation.

Monday 19 April 2010
This shutdown is about more than volcanic ash The flight ban is a product of officialdom’s apocalyptic thinking, where they always imagine that the worst-case scenario will come true.

Monday 12 April 2010
Jobbik: an extreme form of the politics of identity The advance of the far-right in Hungary’s elections shows that zombie politics can potentially make a big impact in public life today.
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