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| Friday 26 August 2011 |
The unfunniest arse in God’s universe
This is a meandering, wittering book that claims to be about faith but reveals far more about its comedian-author Marcus Brigstocke’s nasty prejudices.
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| Thursday 25 August 2011 |
No shooting events in front of the kids
Boris wants to stop yoof from watching Olympic shooting events because of their gun-glorifying effect. Is he joking?
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| Wednesday 24 August 2011 |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a modern-day scapegoat
In the past, backward villagers would invest a goat with the sins of the village and then cast it out. Feminists tried the same trick with DSK.
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| Monday 22 August 2011 |
There’s more to this movie than misanthropy
The critics leaping for joy over the sneering at humanity in Rise of the Planet of the Apes have missed the point.
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| Thursday 18 August 2011 |
Why the US is still stuck in Iraq
The interminable occupation of Iraq exposes the crazy idea that Western forces can liberate foreign peoples.
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| Tuesday 16 August 2011 |
Attacking press freedom in the name of privacy
Having made private conduct central to politics, it’s a bit rich for MPs now to slate the press for being obsessed with private peccadilloes.
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| Friday 12 August 2011 |
Bigmouth tweets again
Ever ready with a quote from Kant, Joey Barton’s Twitter account confounds those who expect working-class footballers to be thick.
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| Thursday 11 August 2011 |
Climate-change alarmism: you couldn’t make it up
Not content with haranguing us with The Science, now green campaigners want to scare us silly with The Stories of climate change, too.
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| Tuesday 9 August 2011 |
Famine in Somalia: it’s not all about us
From climate change to guilt-tripping about donations, the Somalian famine has been framed by Western concerns.
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| Friday 5 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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| Wednesday 3 August 2011 |
ASA and Ofcom: you’re not worth it
We don’t need quangos to protect us from ‘misleading’ L’Oreal adverts or bad soap-opera storylines.
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| Monday 1 August 2011 |
Defending the right to be anonymous online
We should be able to use the web as we want, even if those who hide their identities sometimes act childishly.
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| Friday 29 July 2011 |
Mike Sacks’ one-man war against the zeitgeist
American humourist Mike Sacks doesn’t bother with predictable targets like Palin or hicks. He prefers gerbils, the Holocaust, girls’ lockerrooms...
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| Thursday 28 July 2011 |
Libya: palace intrigue replaces people power
Recent events confirm that NATO’s numpty-led war has led to the colossal disempowerment of the Libyan people.
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| Monday 25 July 2011 |
The rise of the
eco-imperialists
Why the United Nations is wrong to depict everything from war to famine as a ‘climate change issue’.
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| Monday 18 July 2011 |
Why is the government wrecking homes?
The new effort to clamp down on ‘sham marriages’ is, in fact, a mean-spirited attack on free movement.
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| Wednesday 13 July 2011 |
The Human Rights Watch plan to save US imperialism
HRW is demanding that Bush be tried for war crimes only because it wants to resuscitate US authority over the uncivilised hordes.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
The myth of the feral tabloid reader
Why the political class loves to peddle stories about the tabloids’ evil grip on the masses’ minds.
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| Thursday 7 July 2011 |
Why ‘victim’s rights’ are bad for justice
Why is the state keen to stand up for victims in the justice system? Because it wants to boost prosecution rates.
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| Monday 4 July 2011 |
Miss Fancy Pants vs uncouth youth
That snooty mother-in-law’s email about manners has been a viral hit because it exercises something rare: adult authority.
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