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| Friday 24 June 2011 |
Britain makes more things than you think
Evan Davis’s TV tie-in book has some surprising stats on the state of British manufacturing. But our political class lacks the cojones to invest seriously in infrastructure and innovation.
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| Tuesday 14 June 2011 |
The Pipe: a liberal pantomime in the bogs
A film about local resistance to a Shell gas pipeline off Ireland's west coast invites us to boo at the big, bad corporation.
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| Thursday 9 June 2011 |
Too many mouths to feed? Get stuffed
Food prices aren’t rising because the Earth is full. But Malthusian commentators are certainly full of BS.
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| Tuesday 7 June 2011 |
Killer cucumbers and evil bean sprouts? Chill out
Yes, the E. coli outbreak in Germany is serious, but the panic-fuelled overreaction to it has ended up making things even worse.
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| Tuesday 31 May 2011 |
Dodging the burgers won’t save the planet
New film Planeat claims that a vegan lifestyle can save the world and our health. But where’s the beef?
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| Friday 27 May 2011 |
Anyone but United... or Barcelona
With smug United playing the equally smug Barca, it’s just a shame there can’t be two losers in the Champions League final.
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| Wednesday 25 May 2011 |
The sky’s the limit
for risk-aversion
It’s not the volcanic eruption in Iceland that has grounded flights in northern Europe, but an obsession with worst-case scenarios.
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| Thursday 12 May 2011 |
The Cube: welcome to your eco-prison cell
Apparently our unwillingness to live in cramped, low-energy homes reveals our psychological flaws.
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| Thursday 5 May 2011 |
Shale gas: a welcome energy shock
As science writer Matt Ridley describes in a new report, we have a new, abundant source of cheap energy. What’s not to like?
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| Tuesday 3 May 2011 |
Henry Cooper: more than a one-punch wonder
The popular British boxer, who died on Sunday, was an icon for an era in sport — and society — that’s long since gone.
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| Monday 18 April 2011 |
Making a meal of school children’s diet
A survey hailing the impact of healthy school dinners on kids’ capacity to learn is not as smart as it thinks.
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| Friday 15 April 2011 |
Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful
Physicist Wade Allison expertly demolishes fears about radiation. If only he was equally as sceptical about the fear-fuelled climate-change panic.
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| Thursday 14 April 2011 |
The busybody war on packed lunches
A US school’s ban on parents giving their kids packed lunches reeks of ‘we know best’ condescension.
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| Tuesday 12 April 2011 |
Weight loss: the futility of the exercise
If even running a marathon doesn’t shift the pounds, why are the rest of us constantly told to ‘get active’?
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| Tuesday 5 April 2011 |
Keeping the poor in the dark
New World Bank rules restricting support for coal-fired power stations will confine millions to poverty.
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| Friday 1 April 2011 |
Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful
Physicist Wade Allison says he wants to alleviate fears about nuclear. Trouble is, his warnings against catastrophic climate change sound just as alarmist as the nuke panic.
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| Thursday 31 March 2011 |
The unbearable monotony of S*** My Dad Says
A new Twitter-based sitcom will need more than an aged William Shatner spouting s*** to sustain a whole series.
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| Friday 25 March 2011 |
John Terry for England captain: who cares?
This week's Big Debate only demonstrates how the run-up to an England match is the most tedious period in sport.
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| Tuesday 22 March 2011 |
Life expectancy: and now for the good news...
We’re living longer. So why do campaigners and public-health workers keep trying to scare us to death?
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| Wednesday 16 March 2011 |
Five lessons from Fukushima
Alarmist talk of a nuclear crisis in Japan reveals just how fearful modern society has become.
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