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| Thursday 22 September 2011 |
The return of the Mockney Missionary
When a billion people remain malnourished, it’s perverse for Jamie Oliver to bang on about a ‘global epidemic’ of obesity.
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| Monday 19 September 2011 |
Allotments: a plot against modern society?
The fad for growing your own food is not radical – it’s a retreat from the attempt to change the world.
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| Wednesday 14 September 2011 |
Chefs of the world: get over yourselves
Some of the world’s top chefs have made a high-profile plea for local, sustainable, ‘authentic’ food. Yuk.
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| Wednesday 7 September 2011 |
The onward march of the Obesity Orwellians
When kids are snatched from their parents simply for being too fat, it’s clearly the expansion of the state, not our waistlines, that is out of control.
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| Wednesday 31 August 2011 |
Do growing economies cause bigger bellies?
New obesity figures seem designed to scare us out of our greedy ways, and not just when it comes to what we eat.
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| Friday 26 August 2011 |
The state or the free market? What a choice...
Yes, capitalists are increasingly risk-averse and lethargic – but let's not fantasise that the state has the cojones to reinvigorate innovation.
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| Wednesday 24 August 2011 |
Health and safety gone mad? Don’t blame us!
The Health and Safety Executive loves peddling the myth that it isn’t to blame for our risk-averse culture.
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| Friday 19 August 2011 |
The state or the free market? What a choice...
Yes, capitalists are increasingly risk-averse and lethargic – but let's not fantasise that the state has the cojones to reinvigorate innovation.
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| Thursday 4 August 2011 |
Mubarak is gone, but Mubarakans still rule
The public humiliation of the former president is an attempt to show the New Egypt as free and over its past. But it isn’t.
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| Tuesday 2 August 2011 |
Panorama’s addiction to pisspoor journalism
Last night’s edition of the BBC’s current-affairs show was a one-sided showcase for the anti-alcohol lobby.
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| Friday 29 July 2011 |
The strange life and turbulent times of Andy Kershaw
No Off Switch describes the only man in history to be a stagehand to the Stones, Radio 1 DJ, reporter on brutal struggles from Haiti to Rwanda, and boyfriend to, err... Carol Vorderman?
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| Wednesday 27 July 2011 |
Forgive me, Bloomberg, for I have binged
The calorie info in NY restaurants may not have trimmed many waistlines, but it has induced Catholic levels of guilt about eating.
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| Thursday 21 July 2011 |
Why the state should butt out of our personal lives
It is a sign of the times that the only debate we seem to have about nudging is ‘does it work?’ rather than ‘what gives them the right?’.
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| Wednesday 20 July 2011 |
Good healthcare for all? Not on the NHS
Under new local NHS plans, smokers and obese people - the undeserving sick - will be made to wait months for operations.
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| Thursday 14 July 2011 |
How green politicking will deepen fuel poverty
British consumers will pay a high price for Chris Huhne’s desire for moral grandstanding on climate change.
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| Wednesday 6 July 2011 |
The tasteless aim of the war on salt
Why are health campaigners so down on the white stuff when all the evidence suggests it isn't bad for us?
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
The fag end of the argument
Attempts by anti-smoking zealots to smear a report on civil liberties reveal just how bankrupt their arguments are.
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| Monday 4 July 2011 |
Who’s really fibbing about Fukushima?
The way greens tried to play up the accident was far more shocking than ministers’ attempts to ‘play it down’.
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| Wednesday 29 June 2011 |
How to prolong a conflict, ICC-style
The ICC warrant for Gaddafi may make Western powers feel good, but it will make things a whole lot worse in Libya.
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| Monday 27 June 2011 |
A day in the life of the lonely crowd
Life in a Day editor Joe Walker tells spiked about the making and meaning of his innovative crowdsourced movie.
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