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| Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
A politician resigns and no one cares
The fall of Chris Huhne may have thrilled the Westminster village, but for the rest of us it barely registered.
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| Tuesday 31 January 2012 |
Still getting off on
banker-bashing
Given that it lets the state off the hook for the current economic mess, what's radical about baiting the rich?
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Bozza: a conformist in eccentric clothing
A new biography is too obsessed with skewering Boris’s personality to expose his real failing: his embrace of Livingstone-like miserabilism.
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| Thursday 26 January 2012 |
Don't lobby the Lords. Demolish it instead
It is unseemly for so-called progressives to bow and scrape before the second chamber, pleading with it to punish the Lib-Cons.
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| Tuesday 17 January 2012 |
Costa Concordia: a vessel for anti-consumerist angst
Some observers are tastelessly leaping on board the sunken ship to pontificate about the decadence and folly of big, brassy cruise-liners.
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| Thursday 12 January 2012 |
SNP: world-beaters in authoritarianism
The SNP claims to be concerned about Scottish people’s freedom. So why is it always legislating against it?
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| Tuesday 10 January 2012 |
Executive pay and the assault on aspiration
The consensus that top bosses get paid too much is really a way of selling the idea that all society is too greedy.
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| Friday 6 January 2012 |
Bozza: a conformist in eccentric clothing
A new biography is too obsessed with skewering Boris’s personality to expose his real failing: his embrace of Livingstone-like miserabilism.
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| Tuesday 3 January 2012 |
The Syrian uprising: it isn’t all about us
The vanity of those calling for the West to intervene is matched only by the navel-gazing of those who claim to be opposed to intervention.
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| Thursday 29 December 2011 |
Making sense of a rollercoaster year
Whether we were cheering uprisings or challenging nuclear panic, spiked cut to the chase in 2011.
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| Friday 23 December 2011 |
Alan Partridge: an invitation to sneer
The autobiography of the fictional broadcaster and all-round master of naff is undoubtedly funny, but, like creator Steve Coogan’s recent pronouncements, it is fuelled by large doses of liberal snobbery.
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| Monday 5 December 2011 |
Britain vs Iran: the politics of nostalgia
Who’s more deluded: Iranian students who think Britain’s still an imperial threat, or British ministers who fantasise that Iran is EVIL?
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| Tuesday 29 November 2011 |
The exploitation of Gary Speed’s death
Details of the Wales manager’s suicide are unknown, yet it’s still being turned into a lesson about mental illness.
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| Friday 25 November 2011 |
The liberal betrayal of freedom
Domenico Losurdo, the author of Liberalism: A Counter-History, tells spiked that the principle of liberty continues to be too important to be left in the hands of liberals.
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| Friday 25 November 2011 |
These occupiers are so 1990s
A novel about the anti-rat race, anti-roads protesters of the early 1990s reveals the origins of the radical snobbery behind today’s Occupy movement.
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| Tuesday 22 November 2011 |
Olympics: forget the legacy and enjoy the spectacle
The transformation of 2012 into a vehicle for regenerating east London and re-engineering the populace is bad for sport, and bad for politics.
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| Friday 18 November 2011 |
These occupiers are so 1990s
A novel about the anti-roads protesters of the early 1990s reveals the roots of the radical snobbery behind today’s Occupy movement.
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| Monday 14 November 2011 |
These charmless
commentators
Their hissyfit over the use of a Smiths song in a John Lewis ad shows how much middle-aged Moz-heads loathe other people.
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| Tuesday 8 November 2011 |
The ugly blame game over the M5 pile-up
There is something almost medieval, certainly opportunistic, in the shameless rush to find someone to blame for Friday's tragic car crash.
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| Wednesday 2 November 2011 |
We need elected members, not the Wingnut of Windsor
The revelation that Prince Charles has the power to veto legislation is shocking, but UK democracy in general has fallen into disrepute.
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