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Luke Gittos
The greatest legal philosopher of our time
Ronald Dworkin, who died last week, brilliantly argued for the injection of moral beliefs into the black-and-white world of The Law.
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| Monday 28 January 2013 |
Theresa Clifford
The tragedy of the creative commons
Portraying Aaron Swartz as a victim of government bullying will not help the cause of internet freedom.
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| Tuesday 8 January 2013 |
Frank Furedi
Stanley Cohen: a hero of sociology
The death of Cohen, who coined the term ‘moral panic’, deprives us of a great intellectual voice.
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| Tuesday 2 October 2012 |
James Heartfield
Eric Hobsbawm and the tragedy of the left
Where Hobsbawm’s histories of the 19th century were enlivened by his Marxism, his histories of the 20th century were corrupted by his Stalinism.
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| Monday 23 July 2012 |
Alexander Cockburn
‘I have committed intellectual blasphemy’
Following the death of Alexander Cockburn, we republish his spiked piece on what happens to leftists who challenge climate-change alarmism.
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| Friday 15 June 2012 |
Patrick West
Ray Bradbury: prophet of nostalgia
Where most sci-fi writers create an alternative present or imaginary future, the great Bradbury longed for a future that would recapture the past.
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| Monday 19 March 2012 |
Eero Iloniemi
In memoriam: the
cold-cut warrior
The strange tale of TV butcher Väinö Purje and how his Finnish sausages helped to finish the Cold War.
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| Wednesday 21 December 2011 |
Mick Hume
Velvet Revolution: no script for a democratic uprising
Playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel owed his status as anti-Communist rock star more to the West than to the Czech people.
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| Tuesday 20 December 2011 |
Michael Fitzpatrick
From revolutionary student to Byronic celebrity
Michael Fitzpatrick recalls his first meeting with Christopher Hitchens 40 years ago, when there was more to him than flashy posturing.
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| Thursday 8 December 2011 |
Niall Crowley
Who’s in the ‘In Crowd’ these days?
The late US soul singer Dobie Gray provided the theme tune for uppity working-class kids in 1960s Britain.
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| Tuesday 29 November 2011 |
Tim Black
The exploitation of Gary Speed’s death
Details of the Wales manager’s suicide are unknown, yet it’s still being turned into a lesson about mental illness.
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| Friday 7 October 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
In defence of Steve Jobs
The idea that Jobs and his brilliant Apple gadgets were responsible for alienation in the West and for ‘slavery’ in the East is i-nonsense on stilts.
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| Friday 7 October 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The iMourning for Steve Jobs
The reaction to the death of the Apple boss shows how thoroughly mainstream Princess Di-style public weeping has become.
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| Thursday 4 August 2011 |
Neil Davenport
When social mobility meant something
Stan Barstow, author of A Kind of Loving, captured the inner world of working-class people who left the mines behind.
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| Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
Julia Stitch
Farewell, Goddess with the beehive
In our cynical times there’s something to be said for living intensively, like Amy Winehouse did.
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| Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
Michael P Fitzpatrick
The woman who could have ruled the world
With the death of Amy Winehouse, British music has lost what should have been its brightest talent.
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| Tuesday 3 May 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Henry Cooper: more than a one-punch wonder
The popular British boxer, who died on Sunday, was an icon for an era in sport — and society — that’s long since gone.
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| Monday 14 February 2011 |
Andrew Calcutt
Gary Moore: the bebop guitarist
An appreciation of the Thin Lizzy guitarist who died last week.
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| Wednesday 29 December 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
RIP Denis Dutton
A friend and fan of spiked who took ideas and the world wide web seriously.
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| Monday 29 November 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Falling fowl of the food snobs
Bernard Matthews became a culinary Antichrist for the chattering classes who never shop anywhere but Waitrose.
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