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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Calories and Corsets: why dieting never went out style
From vomiting and food abstention to mastication and ‘reducing salons’, a new book shows that weight-loss regimes have a long, weird and unhealthy history.
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| Wednesday 25 January 2012 |
What’s up with the bees?
Two researchers tell spiked that green activists have been a little too keen to blame pesticides for the not-so-great bee die-off.
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| Wednesday 18 January 2012 |
First they came for the smokers...
The remorseless illiberal logic of the ‘we don’t like it, so ban it’ lobby is now leeching its way into the lives of meat-eaters.
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| Wednesday 11 January 2012 |
High-speed rail,
snail's-pace building
The HS2 link between London and Birmingham will do wonders for Britain, but why will it take til 2026 to build the thing?
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| Tuesday 3 January 2012 |
Welcome to the Nagging Health Service
Some health fanatics want everyone from GPs to hospital porters to lecture to us about our lifestyles.
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| Thursday 29 December 2011 |
Reasons to be fearful? Top 10 panics of 2011
It was a turbulent year across the world, yet petty fearmongers still grabbed their share of the headlines.
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| Monday 19 December 2011 |
More flabby claims about obese children
The anti-obesity industry is now so massive that it has to keep inventing health crises to justify its existence.
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| Thursday 8 December 2011 |
The latest BS about the Big C
A new British report claiming that nearly half of cancers are caused by our lifestyles should come with a health warning of its own.
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| Monday 5 December 2011 |
It’s Jeremy Clarkson’s fans they really fear
Clarkson’s comments are considered dangerous because his audience is presumed to be a bunch of thicko automatons.
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| Friday 2 December 2011 |
The IPCC exposed: political to its core
A new book demolishes the neutral, scientific façade of the UN’s climate change body and reveals its real, debate-ending purpose.
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| Wednesday 30 November 2011 |
George Osborne’s autumn of discontent
The chancellor’s autumn statement exposed a dearth of future-oriented thinking in economic circles.
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| Thursday 17 November 2011 |
Smoking in cars: the BMA’s dodgy dossier
The campaign against lighting up in vehicles is as underpinned by misinformation as Blair's bluster on Iraq was. Why isn't there more scepticism?
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| Tuesday 8 November 2011 |
Taking a knife to liberty and tolerance
A Dutch proposal to ban kosher and halal slaughter represents another assault on religious freedom in Europe.
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| Thursday 3 November 2011 |
An earthquake under Britain’s energy supply
Climate-obsessed greens are desperate to exploit two tiny tremors to scare the UK away from exploiting shale gas.
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| Friday 28 October 2011 |
Putting people back at the heart of cities
A new collection of essays challenges both pessimists who see urbanisation as a human disaster and eco-footprint obsessives who want to corral as many people into towns as possible.
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| Tuesday 11 October 2011 |
Dying to scare the life out of us
Life expectancy has shot up in recent years. Why are public-health miserabilists insisting it will soon start falling?
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| Thursday 6 October 2011 |
A game of economic Pass the Parcel
Three years after the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, the debt crisis hasn’t been resolved, just reformulated.
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| Tuesday 4 October 2011 |
This obsession with fat is really taxing
Denmark has introduced a ‘fat tax’ - but what business is it of governments to tell us what we should eat?
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| Friday 30 September 2011 |
Is society suffering from an eating disorder?
In an extract from his new book, Rob Lyons asks why, despite having solved the problem of hunger, people in Western countries seem more fearful of food than ever.
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| Tuesday 27 September 2011 |
Making a Balls-up of economic recovery
Ed Balls’ speech confirmed that Labour hasn’t got the first clue about how to pursue the economic growth we need.
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