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| Friday 28 October 2011 |
The ongoing appeal of this ‘libel against the human race’
The reason why such an army of present-day miserabilists are drawn to the gloomy reverend has far more to do with Malthus’s thorough-going social pessimism than his supposed laws of population growth.
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| Tuesday 25 October 2011 |
So, it wasn’t the gangs wot dunnit
New Home Office figures confirm that the craven attempt to blame England’s August riots on well-organised, evil gangs was pure fantasy.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
V for Vacuous
From the Occupy protests to the anti-tuition fees protest, you’ll always find someone disguised as Guy Fawkes. What’s going on?
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| Tuesday 18 October 2011 |
Booker Prize: trusting the public would be novel
While literary types have arid debates about ‘readability’, the rest of us seem excluded from the conversation.
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| Thursday 13 October 2011 |
The imaginary plot against higher education
The Lib-Con government has no ideological axe to grind against Britain’s universities - it’s way too superficial for that.
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| Monday 10 October 2011 |
The global culture war over Amanda Knox
How did one woman become such a talking point? Because she got bound up in a clash between ‘louche America’ and ‘medieval Italy’.
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| Monday 3 October 2011 |
The culture war over ‘Foxy Knoxy’
The pro-Amanda Knox campaign is far from saintly, what with its Italy-bashing and whispers about backward European men.
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| Friday 30 September 2011 |
Darling’s memoirs: Adding fuel to Labour’s funeral pyre
Ex-chancellor Alistair Darling’s account of his 1,000 days in office reveals the court politics, cluelessness and lack of direction that were at the heart of Brown’s New Labour government.
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| Friday 30 September 2011 |
A philistine defence of the university
They’re more than happy to fight a fantasy left-wing crusade against the ‘ConDem’ government, yet defenders of higher education lack a sense of what they're actually defending.
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| Wednesday 28 September 2011 |
Why Fairtrade is an unfair deal
Buying Fairtrade products may make consumers feel good, but in reality they amount to a PC-form of bonded labour.
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| Monday 26 September 2011 |
Dale Farm: good Gypsies versus evil Essex Man?
The luvvies and leftists supporting the Dale Farm Travellers view the rest of us - the mob - as a racist pogrom in the making.
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| Thursday 22 September 2011 |
Why climate alarmism isn’t toppled by cock-ups
It will take more than exposés of scientific errors to dent green miserabilism, because its roots are moralistic rather than scientific.
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| Tuesday 20 September 2011 |
Trying to nudge us towards decency
The Lib-Con government’s obsession with nudging suggests it sees us as mere putty to be remoulded at will.
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| Friday 16 September 2011 |
The Last Days of New Labour
Ex-chancellor Alistair Darling’s account of his 1,000 days in office reveals much about the rot at the heart of Brown’s Labour government.
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| Thursday 8 September 2011 |
Are you shy? Then you
have a mental disorder
The mad claim that 165million Europeans suffer from ‘mental illness’ confirms that normal emotional states are now seen as diseases.
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| Tuesday 6 September 2011 |
The birth of the
non-political party
The plan to disband the Conservative Party in Scotland is only the latest sign of the disintegration of UK politics.
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| Monday 5 September 2011 |
The NSPCC doesn’t help kids - it harms them
With its ceaseless promotion of fear and suspicion of adults, the NSPCC undermines organic bonds between generations.
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| Thursday 1 September 2011 |
This is a freedom issue, not a ‘humanitarian crisis’
We should support the Dale Farm Travellers’ right to live where they choose, not invite the UN to help preserve their cultural Otherness.
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| Wednesday 31 August 2011 |
The politics of fear blows into New York
The world’s greatest city was brought to a standstill not by Hurricane Irene, but by politicians’ worst-case thinking.
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| Friday 26 August 2011 |
‘Man is more than an overdeveloped monkey’
Raymond Tallis tells spiked why he has declared a war of words on the trendy ideas that underpin ‘neuromania’ and ‘Darwinitis’.
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