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| Monday 17 August 2009 |
Health wars: six myths about the NHS debate
The support for a Twitter campaign backing the UK health service has little to do with the merits of state-run medicine.
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| Wednesday 12 August 2009 |
Copenhagen climate deal would be no fairytale
Until we have new technology in place, we can either cut greenhouse gas emissions or tackle poverty — but not both.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
We need planes, trains and automobiles
Justifying high-speed rail as a way of stopping people from flying is a perverse anti-travel argument.
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| Monday 3 August 2009 |
Organic food and unhealthy snobbery
People don’t eat organic for its nutrients, but because they want to distinguish themselves from the junk-scoffing hordes.
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| Friday 31 July 2009 |
Question everything — even environmentalism
A new book on the importance of being sceptical about received wisdom and simplistic spindoctoring mysteriously leaves out one area of life where scepticism is thoroughly frowned on today: climate change.
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| Tuesday 28 July 2009 |
Fiddling with loans while Rome burns
Darling’s attack on banks for failing to make credit available shows he still has no big ideas for overcoming the recession.
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| Wednesday 22 July 2009 |
The bunkum of Body Mass Index
The BMI measurement is crude and unscientific, yet the government loves it because it draws almost everyone into its anti-obesity orbit.
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| Wednesday 8 July 2009 |
Let’s have a bonfire of the quangos
The rise and rise of quasi non-governmental organisations reflects the diminution of democracy and debate.
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| Thursday 2 July 2009 |
Desperately seeking an economic revival
The British government seems more interested in saving its own skin than devising an economic strategy.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
Puritanism disguised as science
In the past tyrannical rulers poured molten lead down the throats of offending smokers; today smokers are shunned from public buildings and forced to light up in the street. Why have puffers always been seen as a threat to society?
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| Monday 22 June 2009 |
Climate change horror: the UK will be like Provence
A UK government report unwittingly reveals that we should not be cutting carbon use but investing in Mediterranean-style cooling measures.
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| Wednesday 17 June 2009 |
The new c-word in British politics: cuts
British politicians’ utter lack of honesty about the depth of the recession will make matters worse in the long run.
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| Friday 12 June 2009 |
What’s behind today’s epidemic of epidemics?
As the World Health Organisation declares swine flu a pandemic, a new book encourages us to be sceptical about the panicked politics of disease.
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| Tuesday 9 June 2009 |
The fishy message of The End of the Line
Instead of guilt-tripping Western consumers about overfishing, we should invest our energy in developing aquaculture.
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| Monday 8 June 2009 |
The myth of a far-right surge
The BNP won seats not because support for it has exploded, but because of the demise of the mainstream parties.
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| Friday 5 June 2009 |
Kaká: small name, big transfer fee
Yes, £56million is a lot of money, but sometimes you have to spend hard cash on the pursuit of footballing artistry.
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| Thursday 4 June 2009 |
The man who should never have been PM
All the former Gordon Brown-nosers are now wondering ‘how did we get it so wrong?’ They should have read spiked.
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| Monday 1 June 2009 |
No party has a divine right to exist
The state funding of parties would prop up the exhausted status quo and erect a barrier to political experimentation.
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| Friday 29 May 2009 |
What’s behind today’s epidemic of epidemics?
A spookily timely book, published just as the swine flu panic kicked in, does a brilliant job of exposing the social factors behind our dread of disease and encouraging healthy scepticism towards claims of ‘epidemics’.
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| Wednesday 20 May 2009 |
The neverending war on the white stuff
It is essential to human life. People once even offered it to God. So why are today’s grey-faced officials so scared of salt?
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