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| Wednesday 18 November 2009 |
A climate scare in Trafalgar Square
Ghost Forest, a new art installation, wants to frighten us into changing our greedy, planet-wrecking ways.
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| Monday 16 November 2009 |
‘Poker is all about skill and self-control’
An American expert on poker challenges the idea that it encourages reckless, addictive, spendthrift behaviour.
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| Tuesday 10 November 2009 |
See? Mothers can be sex abusers, too
On the flimsiest of evidence, ChildLine and the NSPCC are now even spreading suspicion about the mother-child bond.
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| Wednesday 4 November 2009 |
Giving the young a taste of freedom
Prince Edward’s comments may have been crass, but today’s cotton-wool kids need to be allowed to take risks.
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| Monday 2 November 2009 |
Why New Labour is so dopey on cannabis
The interminable debate about whether dope should be a class B or C drug reveals the government’s incoherence.
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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
The drawn-out decay of the capitalist class
Richard Overy’s splendid new book on the ‘morbid age’ of the 1920s and 30s sheds light on the emergence of a profound crisis of confidence amongst the bourgeoisie – a crisis that has never quite gone away.
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| Wednesday 28 October 2009 |
If comedians can’t be offensive, who can?
Jimmy Carr is only the latest public figure to fall victim to the ‘offence hounds’ who love being scandalised.
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| Tuesday 27 October 2009 |
The cheap thrill of global warming
Ed Miliband’s ‘climate map’ confirms that climate change is the only thing providing New Labour with a sense of mission.
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| Thursday 22 October 2009 |
‘Voltaire never saw concentration camps’
Tim Black reports from a radical-left anti-BNP rally at which free speech was denounced as ‘nonsense’.
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| Tuesday 20 October 2009 |
Off with their head of state
New Labour’s craven justification for maintaining the Royal Prerogative shows that today’s political class doesn’t trust the people – or itself.
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| Monday 19 October 2009 |
I am offended, therefore I am
The overblown reaction to Jan Moir’s bilious column about Stephen Gately shows offence now trumps open debate.
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| Wednesday 14 October 2009 |
New Labour’s phoney battle with fascism
The more the party’s crisis deepens, the more it cynically ups the ante against a far-right phantasm.
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| Thursday 8 October 2009 |
Tory leader in ‘drinking champagne’ shock!
When appearance is everything in politics, even David Cameron enjoying a glass of bubbly can become a scandal.
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| Tuesday 6 October 2009 |
Strictly No Racism – even in private
The reaction to dancer Anton du Beke’s dodgy joke shows that official ‘anti-racism’ is an insidious form of censorship.
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| Thursday 1 October 2009 |
Feral kids: ‘confident, cocky and in control’?
Brown’s latest declaration of war on antisocial behaviour expolits today’s widespread adult fear of children.
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| Monday 28 September 2009 |
Why shouldn’t people work beyond their 60s?
At a time when people are living longer, healthier lives it makes no sense to have a Default Retirement Age.
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| Wednesday 23 September 2009 |
Fifteen months for a foolish affair?
The jailing of a teacher who had a lesbian affair with a 15-year-old girl is a victory for legalism rather than justice.
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| Thursday 17 September 2009 |
Osama bin Laden’s
cut-and-paste job
The al-Qaeda frontman’s latest address to the American people wouldn’t sound out of place in mainstream US politics.
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| Tuesday 1 September 2009 |
Who’s really to blame for Big Brother?
The reality TV show was a product, rather than the cause, of the collapse of standards and the death of privacy.
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| Wednesday 26 August 2009 |
Viewing Britain as a nation of Begbies
The Home Office proposal to replace pint glasses with plastic cups sums up its suspicion of animalistic Brits.
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