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Mick Hume
Official anti-racism: the new nationalism?
Once the establishment preached the doctrine of race and nation - now the elites have redefined racism as ‘a secular sin’.
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| Monday 14 November 2011 |
Michael Fitzpatrick
Social democracy is dead. Now let’s move on
Across Europe, labour parties are reinventing themselves to stay relevant, but they’ve been redundant for decades.
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| Wednesday 9 November 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Colonialism in weapons inspectors’ clothing
Far from being politically neutral, nuke-hunting weapons inspectors are thoroughly in hock to Western interests.
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| Tuesday 1 November 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Why church officials worship these protesters
No attempt to depict Occupy London as a Second Coming of angry Jesuses can disguise the fact that it remains a shallow moral gesture.
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| Wednesday 5 October 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Let’s stop kowtowing to the cult of transparency
The demand that every corner of officialdom be thrown open to public view has only made politics a more deceptive, less principled sphere.
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| Wednesday 28 September 2011 |
Tim Black
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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| Wednesday 21 September 2011 |
Mick Hume
Problems in political life? Blame the Lib Dems!
Tories and Labour are bashing Nick Clegg’s pathetic party to try to hide the fact that they are all like the politics-lite Liberal Democrats now.
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| Wednesday 15 June 2011 |
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
No politics please, we’re trying to protest!
A Greek student reports on how ideology has been expelled from the anti-government protests in Athens and elsewhere.
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| Tuesday 24 May 2011 |
Mick Hume
Spanish protests: Viva, err... what, exactly?
The sit-in protests in Madrid and elsewhere are more a symbol of the problems of European radicalism than an offshoot of the Arab spring.
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| Tuesday 24 May 2011 |
Gareth King
‘Down with the regime! Long live the people!’
Gareth King reports from the colourful, often eccentric protests that have taken over Madrid’s main square.
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| Friday 18 March 2011 |
Sean Collins
Libya: how the West just made things worse
Sean Collins reports from New York on how the UN’s green light for military action may wreck any hope of freedom for the people of Libya.
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| Tuesday 14 December 2010 |
Tim Black
Hacktivism: the poison gas of cyberspace
The Anonymous hackers waging ‘cyber war’ in defence of Wikileaks are, ironically, acting censoriously.
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| Tuesday 7 December 2010 |
Tim Black
Wikileaks: a war of words against Johnny Foreigner
In leaking US diplomats’ bitchy gossip about foreign leaders, Julian Assange has helped make national chauvinism respectable once again.
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| Thursday 2 December 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Climate change: a practical problem, not a moral one
Has ‘skeptical environmentalist’ and scourge of Greenpeace Bjorn Lomborg really had a change of heart and turned green? Er, no, he tells spiked.
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| Tuesday 30 November 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Wikileaks: this isn’t journalism ‑ it’s voyeurism
High-minded newspapers’ celebration of the latest Wikileaks revelations is a cynical attempt to turn voyeurism into a virtue.
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| Wednesday 17 November 2010 |
Mick Hume
Burma: power to which people?
Aung San Suu Kyi has finally been released, but the Burmese people will not be freed by her international fan-club of statesmen and celebs.
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| Wednesday 17 November 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
A Paine in the ass for modern America
How did the ‘Father of the American Revolution’ become the crazy uncle of American history?
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| Wednesday 10 November 2010 |
Frank Furedi
It’s time to stand up for courage and conviction
Machiavelli and other humanists would have been appalled by today’s bureaucratisation of everyday life that threatens vital public virtues.
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| Monday 1 November 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
A message to the illiberal Nudge Industry: push off
The ‘politics of the brain’ is a threat to choice, freedom and democracy – which is why spiked is declaring war against it.
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| Wednesday 27 October 2010 |
Frank Furedi
France: a ‘revolution’ to preserve the status quo
In the past, youthful rebels were heroically indifferent to their long-term security. The French protesters are obsessed with theirs.
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