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| Thursday 19 November 2009 |
What’s stopping us from feeding the world?
Malthus was wrong about the inevitability of famine, but we still need to ask why so many people don't get enough to eat.
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| Monday 16 November 2009 |
The truth about those unemployment stats
Is the small rise really due to economic recovery, or the fact that people are willing to accept wage and hour cuts?
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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
Cooking up a new theory of evolution
With his smaller teeth and jaws, what separated Homo erectus from his predecessors was not just eating meat, but cooking what he caught.
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| Thursday 29 October 2009 |
Go veggie to ‘save the planet’? Burger off!
The Stern-endorsed campaign to stop people eating meat shows that greens have no solutions for society beyond launching wars on enjoyment.
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| Friday 23 October 2009 |
Life’s a beachball, and then you die
Eight weeks in and Liverpool’s season might already be over – thanks, in part, to a little comedy intervention.
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| Tuesday 20 October 2009 |
Recycling: an eco-ritual we should bin
Reprocessing waste might one day be cost-effective, but for now it's a moralistic reminder that humans are greedy.
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| Wednesday 7 October 2009 |
Are the supermarkets killing British food?
Debate: The big chains seem more popular than ever, but are they strangling small businesses and consumer choice?
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| Tuesday 6 October 2009 |
Weighing into family life — again
Obesity campaigners want all expectant parents to be weighed. We should tell them to get stuffed.
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| Friday 2 October 2009 |
Audley Harrison: a cautionary tale
How did the man who won Olympic gold in 2000 fail so spectacularly to become a professional champion?
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| Tuesday 29 September 2009 |
A blame game you can bank on
Alistair Darling’s decision to bash bankers at Labour’s party conference was predictable, misguided and dishonest.
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| Tuesday 22 September 2009 |
The austerity auction
Politicians are competing to see who can make the severest cuts — only because they have no broader vision for the economy.
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| Monday 21 September 2009 |
The backward attacks on Norman Borlaug
Who could possibly think that Borlaug’s ideas for feeding millions were a bad thing? Green activists, that’s who.
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| Monday 14 September 2009 |
Norman Borlaug, RIP
As spiked launches a new debate about the future of food, we mourn the man who fed the world.
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| Friday 11 September 2009 |
Could England actually win the World Cup?
The depressing cycle of over-inflated expectations and dashed hopes has started again. Will England fans never learn?
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| Wednesday 9 September 2009 |
Cycling: the Battle of the Panics
Children should be allowed to ride to school, not to prevent obesity or global warming, but simply because cycling is fun.
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| Wednesday 2 September 2009 |
The junk science behind the war on junk food
Rob Lyons is not convinced by Cancer Research UK’s justification for why it effectively outlawed fast-food outlets in a new building in London.
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| Friday 28 August 2009 |
Question everything - even environmentalism
A new book on the importance of questioning received wisdom leaves out one area of life where scepticism is frowned on today: climate change.
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| Tuesday 25 August 2009 |
Cameron’s Tories: the heirs to Blairism
Promoting patient choice, regulating our behaviour... Cameron is channelling New Labour circa 1997.
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| Friday 21 August 2009 |
Lockerbie: what’s justice got to do with it?
International politics, not truth or fair play, has been the determining factor in the story of Pan Am flight 103.
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| Thursday 20 August 2009 |
‘We’re in the killing Nazis business’
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is preposterous, frequently cartoonish and too long — but it’s still lots of fun.
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