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Saleha Ali
Another Christmas, another ‘ethical gift’
Charities urge us to shop till Third World poverty drops, but ‘ethical consumption’ only makes Westerners feel good.
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| Tuesday 20 December 2011 |
Nancy McDermott
Merry Christmas! Well, sort of.
America’s un-Christmassy cards show a national inability to share each other's rituals and beliefs with confidence.
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| Thursday 9 December 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
It’s Christmas, so watch out for rapists
A Xmas-hooked ad campaign designed to raise awareness about illegal cabs is exploiting women’s fear of rape.
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| Monday 22 December 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
These gifts are degrading to people, not animals
Animal Aid has attacked the nauseating fashion for sending goats and dung to Africans at Christmas - but for all the wrong reasons.
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| Monday 22 December 2008 |
Nancy McDermott
Christmas culture wars
Concern that Christmas is anything from too religious to too commercial exposes America’s troubled soul.
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| Monday 7 January 2008 |
James Heartfield
Green toffs vs the ‘shopping herd’
The panic about greedy mobs invading Oxford Street during the New Year sales is driven by elite disdain for consumerism and economic growth.
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| Thursday 27 December 2007 |
Brendan O’Neill
Mankind is more than the janitor of planet Earth
I am avowedly atheist. But listening to the bishops' drab, eco-pious Christmas sermons, I couldn’t help thinking: ‘Bring back God!’
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| Wednesday 19 December 2007 |
Mick Hume
Meet the new Eco-nezer Scrooges
In the name of scrimping and saving the planet, miserabilism about Xmas has gone mainstream and taken the moral high ground this year.
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| Monday 17 December 2007 |
Munira Mirza
Christmas is banned! Or is it?
Many of the 'PC gone mad!' stories about Christmas cards and cribs being outlawed are little more than rumours. So why do people believe them?
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| Thursday 13 December 2007 |
Nathalie Rothschild
It's time to unwrap ‘Oxfam Unwrapped’
Celebs want us to give ‘funusual’ Xmas gifts to Africans, like goats, cans of worms and dung. A new film says the recipients are not impressed.
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| Monday 19 November 2007 |
Lee Jones
The grinch who stole Christmas cards
Primary school pupils in Wales have been banned from exchanging cards in the name of saving the planet and its ‘wretched’ Africans.
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| Thursday 21 December 2006 |
Sadhavi Sharma
Why these patronising gifts get my goat
Giving donkeys, goats, therapy or campaigning packs to developing countries only helps to reinforce Third World poverty.
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| Friday 15 December 2006 |
Emily Hill
Have yourself a killjoy Christmas
In the second round of nominations, spiked approaches the great and the good in the ongoing quest to expose the King of the Killjoys 2006.
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| Wednesday 13 December 2006 |
Frank Furedi
Do they know it’s Christmas?
Forget 'Peace on Earth' - Christmas has become a battleground in the culture war over the status of religion.
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| Tuesday 12 December 2006 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Worse than Scrooge
Underlying the frequently expressed concerns about personal debt is a distaste for popular consumption.
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| Tuesday 5 December 2006 |
Emily Hill
Santa’s grotty
It's hard to know which is more pathetic: the standard of art at Banksy's Christmas-bashing shop in Oxford Street, or the losers paying a fortune for it.
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| Wednesday 21 December 2005 |
Josie Appleton
Who Killed Christmas
There's no 'war on Christmas' from without – only a lack of belief within.
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| Thursday 19 December 2002 |
Ray Crowley
Nativity scrooges
Images of a young boy disappearing into the night with a dodgy looking snowman might send the wrong message to children.
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