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Thursday 23 May 2013 Home
Brendan O’Neill
Woolwich: a knife crime, not an act of war
In overreacting to the frenzied stabbing in Woolwich yesterday, politicians and the police risk doing the killers’ dirty work for them.
Mick Hume
Liberty comes out
against press liberty
The UK’s top civil liberties lobby has finally played its hand on the press – it favours statutory backed regulation.
Luke Gittos
Keep the police out of our private lives
Maria Stubbings’ death was terrible, but a public inquiry would lead to even more hamfisted official intervention.
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Sean Collins
Oklahoma: a swirling storm of anti-human prejudice
As people in Oklahoma heroically dealt with their tornado disaster, observers were busy pinning the blame for it on greedy mankind.
Rob Lyons
A bug-eyed view of culinary pleasure
Being corralled into eating beetles and wasps to save the planet is enough to put you right off your food.
Tim Black
Bozza, bonking and the public interest
Why should three men in wigs get to decide whether or not us plebs can read about Boris's sexual shenanigans?
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Wendy Kaminer
No sex talk, please,
we're students
The latest diktat from the Obama administration bizarrely treats students' sexual come-ons and flirting as sexual harassment.
Wendy Earle
What is the point of teaching the arts?
ESSAY: Too many in the UK cultural sector seek to defend arts education in terms that have nothing to do with art.
Patrick Hayes
One flew over the students’ nest
Why is the NUS so hellbent on depicting its members as mentally fragile creatures who can't cope with life?
Monday 20 May 2013
Jon Holbrook
Gay marriage and the tyranny of sameness
Barrister Jon Holbrook says equality is no longer a progressive demand but rather is used to demolish differences between people.
Tim Black
Does tax avoidance really ‘do evil’?
The political class’s war on alleged ‘tax dodgers’ like Google and Starbucks is a big fat displacement activity.
Rob Lyons
Is the EU now just a satire on itself?
The EU’s latest mad ban is revealing, suggesting it doesn’t even trust ordinary people to pour their own olive oil.
Friday 17 May 2013
Neil Davenport
A nightmare vision of the welfarist trap
A reissue of Zoe Fairbairns’ dystopian novel Benefits is a timely reminder that left-wingers weren't always such big fans of welfarism.
David Bowden
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up
In the battle of the quality American shows this spring, it’s Game of Thrones wearing the crown over Mad Men.
Tom Slater
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.
The second instalment of JJ Abrams’ franchise reboot is more pointless popcorn than pop philosophy.
Thursday 16 May 2013
Rob Lyons
The non-parochial case against the European Union
It isn’t only Little Englanders who should rage against the undemocratic EU – so should those who care about the continent and its peoples.
Luke Gittos
What’s so liberal about rehabilitation?
Chris Grayling’s proposal to supervise offenders after they've been released from jail is authoritarian and unjust.
James Woudhuysen
The right to bear
3D-printed arms
The US authorities are armed to the teeth, and we're panicking about citizens printing out rubbish guns?

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Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.



23 May 2013
Woolwich: a knife crime, not an act of war
23 May 2013
Liberty comes out
against press liberty

17 May 2013:
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.

17 May 2013:
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up

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