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Monday 15 April 2013 No to Neo-Malthusianism

Rob Lyons
We need a bit more hunger to end poverty
Claims that climate change will cause mass starvation could actually make it harder to feed the world.

Monday 28 January 2013
Patrick Hayes
David Attenborough’s demographic determinism
The TV naturalist is still banging on about there being ‘too many people’, just when others fret about declining population.

Thursday 8 November 2012
Patrick Hayes
The greens showing their true colours
The far-right-sounding ideas of Swiss greens EcoPop display the misanthropy of Malthusian thought.

Thursday 12 July 2012
Tom Bailey
How neo-Malthusians demonise dissent
In branding those who disagree with them ‘deniers’, the overpopulation lobby reveals its allergy to debate.

Monday 31 October 2011
Nathalie Rothschild
Happy birthday, baby seven billion!
Ignore the population doom-mongers and dive into spiked’s archives for a celebration of human life and ingenuity.

Wednesday 12 October 2011
Brendan O’Neill
Beware Malthusians posing as progressives
Don’t be fooled by the fashionable new crowd of Malthus-bashing greens: they’re as misanthropic as old-style population scaremongers.

Thursday 18 August 2011
Patrick Hayes
Sterilise yourself and win a car!
The bribing of Indians to stop having babies is not that different to the moral blackmail used by Western Malthusians.

Wednesday 20 July 2011
Patrick Hayes
Why not celebrate the birth of Harper Seven?
Ignore the miserable misanthropists who think the Beckhams set a bad example by having too many children.

Wednesday 6 July 2011
Patrick Hayes
Let’s just all SQUASH together
Squatters once fancied themselves as radical. Now they have embraced the low horizons of the political elite.

Thursday 13 January 2011
Brendan O’Neill
The definitive guide to modern-day Malthusians
With the human population heading towards seven billion, spiked challenges the miserabilists who say this is a Very Bad Thing.

Wednesday 22 December 2010
Tim Black
The return of the population panickers
In 2010, more and more of the supposedly great and good signed up for the misery-fest that is neo-Malthusianism.

Friday 17 December 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Our Brave New World of Malthusian madmen
From Burgess’s Wanting Seed to Huxley’s Brave New World, the wacky Malthusian ideas of dystopian literature are now everyday beliefs.

Friday 3 December 2010
Sean Collins
Jonathan Franzen: the Great American Malthusian
Franzen’s deep misanthropy prevents Freedom from being a good novel: his characters’ lack of nobility means they just aren’t interesting.

Monday 8 November 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Think the Earth is finite? Think again
When modern Malthusians insist that resources are finite, they only expose their historical illiteracy, misanthropy and social pessimism.

Tuesday 19 October 2010
Nathalie Rothschild
The British elite prefers polite Malthusianism
The American woman paying British drug addicts to stop breeding is only saying out loud what respectable people normally say in code.

Wednesday 17 February 2010
Brendan O’Neill
The ‘taboo’ they just can’t stop talking about
Article after article after article now tells us that human overpopulation of the planet is the Great Unmentionable. Hmm, something doesn’t add up.

Wednesday 6 January 2010
Tim Black
Down with these Malthusian MPs
A proposal to cap the UK population at 70million shows how mainstream miserabilist population control has become.

Monday 7 December 2009
Frank Furedi
Treating human beings as little more than carbon
As the Copenhagen summit starts, the rise of eco-Malthusianism shows the anti-human, future-fearing essence of climate-change alarmism.

Thursday 19 November 2009
Brendan O’Neill
Too many people? No, too many Malthusians
Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and they’re still wrong today.

Tuesday 6 October 2009
Jennie Bristow
Population reduction: a war on women’s bodies
Pro-choice activists must defend women’s reproductive rights against those who say we should curb population growth to save the planet.

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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