|
|
James Heartfield
Ballard: explorer of catastrophe
The author of Empire of the Sun and Crash was no dystopian prophet; he used disaster to reimagine the world.
|
 |
| Monday 29 December 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
The curious victory of Conor Cruise O’Brien
The arch revisionist of Irish history is now denounced as an intellectual eccentric. Yet his misanthropic vision governs modern Ireland; he was the Grandfather of the Peace Process.
|
|
| Monday 29 December 2008 |
Sandy Starr and James Heartfield
The problem with Pinteresque politics
The same qualities that made Harold Pinter one of the great dramatists – free association, non-sequiturs, jarring juxtapositions, unreliable recollections – also made him a bad political activist.
|
|
| Thursday 6 November 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Michael Crichton, RIP
Farewell to the author who supported spiked spiritually and financially.
|
|
| Friday 1 February 2008 |
Patrick West
Jeremy Beadle:
comic genius
Ignore the cant-fuelled attacks by envious members of the chattering classes on Jeremy Beadle. He was a man who ‘got’ humour.
|
|
| Tuesday 11 September 2007 |
James Heartfield
Anita Roddick: prophet of Green Capitalism
The founder of The Body Shop has died – but not before helping to move exhausted industrial capitalism towards a new life as ‘capitalism without growth’.
|
|
| Wednesday 5 September 2007 |
Mick Hume
Remembering Dave Hallsworth
An obituary by Mick Hume.
|
|
| Tuesday 19 June 2007 |
Ed Barrett
Bernard Manning:
the oldest and truest punk in town
Some brief thoughts penned in sorrow upon hearing of the death of the foul-mouthed comedian.
|
|
| Tuesday 24 April 2007 |
James Heartfield
Yeltsin: the West’s hero-turned-scapegoat
From ‘warrior for democracy’ to drunken buffoon: the former Russian president’s reputation was made and broken by Western pundits.
|
|
| Tuesday 10 April 2007 |
Obituary
In memory of Gina Owens
Helene Guldberg and Wendy Earle pay tribute to a long-time supporter of spiked who died last month.
|
|
| Tuesday 14 March 2006 |
Philip Cunliffe
After Milosevic
Why the international community turned the ineffectual, authoritarian former president of Yugoslavia into evil personified.
|
|
| Tuesday 23 August 2005 |
Brendan O’Neill
Mo Mowlam and the politics of disgruntlement
Everyone agrees that she was a 'breath of fresh air', but what exactly did she stand for?
|
|
| Friday 4 March 2005 |
Graham Barnfield
We’re all gonzo now
Hunter S Thompson's penchant for putting himself in the story is today what passes for mainstream journalism.
|
|
| Friday 5 November 2004 |
Andrew Calcutt
John Peel died in 1998
With Home Truths, he crossed the fine line between Scouse-ish wit and cloying sentimentality.
|
|
| Wednesday 7 July 2004 |
Andrew Calcutt
Elvis and Marlon
Fifty years on, why we bow down to the King more than the Wild One.
|
|
| Wednesday 1 October 2003 |
James Heartfield
What Edward Said
A reflection on the Palestinian theorist's strivings, insights and shortcomings.
|
|
| Thursday 18 September 2003 |
Andrew Calcutt
Hard Cash and soft men
What Johnny Cash means to the Nick Hornby generation.
|
|
|
