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| Wednesday 11 November 2009 |
Airbrushing ‘bad ads’ from public life
The campaign to ban retouched images of skinny models is not only crazy – it’s deeply censorious, too.
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| Thursday 5 November 2009 |
Putting a forcefield around green ideas
The notion that green beliefs in the workplace should be legally protected from ridicule is deeply censorious.
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| Monday 2 November 2009 |
Telling unfunny jokes should not be a crime
The fining of French comedian Dieudonné for publicly insulting Jews is a crime against freedom of speech.
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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
Seeing Sweden through the eyes of Stieg Larsson
Larsson’s hugely popular Millennium novels are not only brilliant page-turners – they also challenge the clapped-out view of Sweden as a social paradise peopled by buxom blondes and depressives.
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| Monday 26 October 2009 |
‘Rescue’: a new PC term for repatriation
As the sex-trafficking scare is exposed as a tissue of lies, Nathalie Rothschild spells out the need for full freedom of movement for migrants.
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| Thursday 15 October 2009 |
A naked assault on our right to privacy
Airport scanners that will ogle our naked bodies are only a more hi-tech version of everyday state surveillance.
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| Thursday 8 October 2009 |
What do you think: is this child porn or art?
Nathalie Rothschild took the banned picture of Brooke Shields back to the Tate Modern to let gallery visitors decide for themselves.
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| Thursday 1 October 2009 |
Not all migrants are scruffy, dirty victims
Yes, the residents of the Calais ‘jungle’ have been treated badly, but the no borders case requires a defence of everyone’s right to move.
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| Friday 25 September 2009 |
When women invaded the ivory towers
An engaging, insightful history of the women who fought for the right to be educated reminds us how acts of perseverance and rebellion can transform society.
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| Wednesday 16 September 2009 |
Hands off my camera!
spiked joined a ‘flash mob’ where photographers stood up against anti-terror laws and defended the right to snap.
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| Tuesday 8 September 2009 |
‘We need a supernatural being to punish eco-sinners’
The flurry of commentary in response to Lord May’s speech on climate change revealed greens’ authoritarian desire to chastise ungreen heretics.
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| Wednesday 2 September 2009 |
BANNED: women who look too young
The ASA’s censorship of an ad featuring a 23-year-old who ‘looks underage’ takes petty prudishness to a new low.
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| Wednesday 26 August 2009 |
We’re all traffickers now
We should challenge the idea that everything from smoking a spliff to employing an African cleaner is potential complicity in a ‘slave trade’.
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| Monday 24 August 2009 |
The irrational streak to Israel-bashing
An article about the IDF stealing organs suggests ancient myths are becoming acceptable again in polite society.
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| Tuesday 18 August 2009 |
A picture of prudishness
A college disciplinary case over a lecturer showing students some edgy photographs reveals how fear of offence trumps academic freedom today.
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| Thursday 30 July 2009 |
After smoking and booze, now sunbeds are demonised
The media went wild over a new report claiming that sunbeds are ‘carcinogenic to humans’. But dermatology expert Sam Shuster is not convinced.
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| Thursday 23 July 2009 |
This invention really does suck
The LifeStraw allows Africans safely to drink filthy water. Is it the most degrading gadget ever invented?
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| Tuesday 14 July 2009 |
Brüno is irreverent? Yah, vassever
For all its daring pretensions, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno ends up in bed with the very celebrities it mocks.
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| Thursday 9 July 2009 |
Why greens love to evoke the Holocaust
Al Gore is only the latest environmentalist to use the spectre of Nazism to try to scare people green.
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| Monday 6 July 2009 |
A monument to Big Brother culture
PHOTO ESSAY: spiked reports from the unveiling of Antony Gormley’s reality-sculpture One and Other in Trafalgar Square.
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