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| Monday 24 August 2009 |
Why I’m opposed to a maximum wage
It masquerades as progressive, but the campaign to cap big bonuses is really a moralistic critique of ambition.
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| Tuesday 18 August 2009 |
Going ‘soft’ on learning
While Michael Gove has attacked the way children are pushed toward easier subjects, the real problem is a society that has devalued education.
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| Wednesday 12 August 2009 |
Baby P: another round of ‘prole porn’
After the tragic death of Peter Connelly, underclass-baiting offers a relief for pundits in search of a moral crusade.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Are British stag nights really wrecking Riga?
The annual silly-season attack on British stags in Latvia is, once again, based on snobbery rather than facts.
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| Wednesday 5 August 2009 |
The UN’s Twitter war against nukes
Why Ban Ki-moon’s teenage Twittering about the evil of nuclear weapons has only 1,064 followers.
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| Monday 3 August 2009 |
Bobby Robson and the decline of British decency
He was by all accounts a lovely bloke. But behind the effusive eulogising there lurks a disdain for today’s allegedly crass football fans and players.
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| Friday 31 July 2009 |
‘We want to determine the world, not be determined by it’
Susan Neiman talks to spiked about the death of philosophy, the need for moral reasoning, and how the Enlightenment taught us to live without absolute certainty.
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| Wednesday 29 July 2009 |
It is the EHRC itself that is autocratic
It wasn’t Trevor Phillips who made the Equality and Human Rights Commission ‘dictatorial’ - by its very nature the EHRC is authoritarian.
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| Tuesday 21 July 2009 |
Scanning hoodies’ brains: eugenics by the back door?
Is children’s charity Kids Company really planning to send a mobile scanner to examine tearaways’ brains? Yes and no, says the charity’s founder.
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| Wednesday 15 July 2009 |
The defeatism of the anti-war movement
Instead of opposing the war in Afghanistan on principle, the anti-war movement has merely exploited Western failures.
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| Tuesday 14 July 2009 |
This politicisation of swine flu is bad for our health
There are two swine flus: the real disease, which is proving manageable, and the fantasy catastrophic disease invented by officialdom.
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| Thursday 9 July 2009 |
Vote ‘Yes’ or the economy gets it
Officials are using financial threats to get the right result in the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
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| Monday 6 July 2009 |
Austerity is not the only solution
Ahead of tomorrow’s live spiked debate on the future of business, Tim Black laments the lack of vision on the recession.
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| Tuesday 30 June 2009 |
These obscenity laws should be abolished
The case of a pervy blog about Girls Aloud should alert us to the dangers of allowing the state to regulate people’s fantasies.
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| Wednesday 24 June 2009 |
‘This is only the beginning’
Tim Black spent the day with strikers at the Lindsey oil refinery, listening to Freddie Mercury and some heated conversation.
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| Monday 22 June 2009 |
Bring me the head of Fred Goodwin
Commentators called for Goodwin’s head to be put on a spike. Now, courtesy of an EU-funded arts festival, it very nearly has been.
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| Wednesday 17 June 2009 |
Iraq: we don’t need another inquiry
Supine, shameless politicians want a public inquiry to do what they signally failed to do six years ago: refute the case for invading Iraq.
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| Monday 15 June 2009 |
‘I am not a man. I am Cantona’
With a brilliant and surreal turn from King Eric of Manchester, Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric is a film of unusual optimism.
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| Thursday 11 June 2009 |
Committing the sin of demanding more
In their anachronistic demand for better wages, London Tube workers have struck a blow against the culture of austerity.
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| Friday 5 June 2009 |
John Gray: the poster boy for misanthropy
He thinks there are too many humans and we’ve become a plague on the planet. How does he get out of bed every morning?
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