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| Tuesday 15 July 2008 |
Who demolished the housing industry?
The UK’s housebuilders are laying off thousands of staff while millions struggle to buy a home - all thanks to the anti-growth lobby.
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| Monday 7 July 2008 |
Food price rises: are biofuels to blame?
Forget crops-for-energy. The politics of protectionism and environmentalism are far bigger culprits in the global food crisis.
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| Tuesday 3 June 2008 |
Questioning the myth of food scarcity
World leaders are debating global hunger in Rome, yet French fishermen are giving away seafood stolen from supermarkets. What’s going on?
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| Wednesday 21 May 2008 |
Gordon Brown and the ghosts of innovation
James Heartfield reports from yesterday’s NESTA conference in London on the flailing PM’s vampiric relationship with the ‘innovation economy’.
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| Monday 7 April 2008 |
Gordon Brown’s Great Eco-Towns Con
The PM is proposing new zero-carbon towns to make up for his government’s kneejerk hostility to real housebuilding. It’s too little, too late.
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| Monday 28 January 2008 |
Suharto: made and broken by the West
The bloody dictator was not overthrown by Indonesian ‘people power’, as the obits claim; he was sacked by his Western backers when his face no longer fitted.
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| Friday 25 January 2008 |
The tyranny of
identity politics
The left’s cry ‘the personal is political!’ sounded radical once, but it has been used to legitimise state interference in our lives. If what we do in the bedroom is ‘political’, why shouldn’t the authorities regulate it?
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| Monday 7 January 2008 |
Green toffs vs the ‘shopping herd’
The panic about greedy mobs invading Oxford Street during the New Year sales is driven by elite disdain for consumerism and economic growth.
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| Thursday 27 December 2007 |
He’s a son of a bitch, but he’s their son of a bitch
Western observers loathe Time Man of the Year Vladimir Putin’s aggressive nationalism. But he is widely supported by the Russian people.
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| Friday 21 December 2007 |
New Labour’s out-of-control freakery
Yes, the UK government under Blair, and now Brown, has tried to micro-manage our daily lives. But it is Labour's outsourcing of political responsibility, rather than its control-freakery, that has killed politics.
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| Tuesday 18 December 2007 |
Eco-imperialism at
the Bali summit?
After Bali: Are Western powers offsetting their industrial growth by blackmailing poorer countries to foreswear development? One writer thinks so.
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| Monday 5 November 2007 |
Fifteen myths about the housing crisis
Government slothfulness, combined with the green lobby's snobbery towards the masses and their 'ugly houses', is the cause of Britain's shocking homes shortfall.
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| Monday 1 October 2007 |
The high price of the UK’s housing shortage
While commentators speculate about a house price crash, it's the failure to build new homes that should worry us.
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| Friday 21 September 2007 |
The sickness at the heart of New Labour
Always ill, disowned by their own partners and children, forever moaning about ‘workloads’… the new crop of diaries from Blairite politicians shows that the Blair regime had no idea where it was going or what it believed in.
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| Tuesday 18 September 2007 |
GM: where the science doesn’t count
Today’s climate change activists pose as ‘defenders of science’. Yet not so long ago, they irrationally rejected the scientific truth about GM crops.
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| Tuesday 11 September 2007 |
Anita Roddick: prophet of Green Capitalism
The founder of The Body Shop has died – but not before helping to move exhausted industrial capitalism towards a new life as ‘capitalism without growth’.
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| Friday 17 August 2007 |
Why Grossman still matters
A brilliant biography of Polish economist Henryk Grossman shows us the man – with silk white gloves and cane – behind the Marxist analysis.
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| Monday 23 July 2007 |
Stop romanticising council housing
Those calling for more ‘social housing’ could do with a history lesson: council estates have always been authoritarian tools for social control.
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| Friday 20 July 2007 |
Why Grossman still matters
A brilliant new biography of Polish historian and economist Henryk Grossman shows us the man – complete with silk white gloves and cane – behind the cutting Marxist analysis.
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| Tuesday 10 July 2007 |
Who’s to blame for crazy house prices?
With NIMBYist sentiments enshrined in policy, and house-builders tied up by bureaucracy, it is little wonder people can’t afford to buy a home.
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