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Patrick Hayes
‘Stop! You’re entering a restricted space!’
spiked talks to the Londoner who campaigned to switch off a Robocop-style talking CCTV camera in Camden.
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| Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
Tim Black
A politician resigns and no one cares
The fall of Chris Huhne may have thrilled the Westminster village, but for the rest of us it barely registered.
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| Monday 6 February 2012 |
Mick Hume
No Jubilee for republicans
– or royalists
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee throws the spotlight on royalty that is not very regal, and critics who are not really republican.
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| Thursday 2 February 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Banker-bashers: a lynch mob with PhDs
The mad political pursuit of ‘evil’ Fred Goodwin confirms that bankers are to posh commentators what paedos are to tabloid hacks.
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| Thursday 2 February 2012 |
James Woudhuysen
All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy
Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs.
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| Thursday 26 January 2012 |
Tim Black
Don't lobby the Lords. Demolish it instead
It is unseemly for so-called progressives to bow and scrape before the second chamber, pleading with it to punish the Lib-Cons.
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| Thursday 19 January 2012 |
Mick Hume
The shared delusions of Labour and the unions
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband versus the British trade union bosses? A plague on both their empty houses.
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| Wednesday 18 January 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Let’s have a proper debate about the welfare state
Hooked on poverty porn, getting the unelected Lords to do their dirty work... there’s little progressive about today’s welfare-defenders.
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| Wednesday 11 January 2012 |
Rob Lyons
High-speed rail,
snail's-pace building
The HS2 link between London and Birmingham will do wonders for Britain, but why will it take til 2026 to build the thing?
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| Wednesday 30 November 2011 |
Mick Hume
Evoking the ghost of general strikes past
The day of industrial action over UK public sector pensions is a gesture, not a general strike – and both sides know it.
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| Tuesday 22 November 2011 |
Tim Black
Olympics: forget the legacy and enjoy the spectacle
The transformation of 2012 into a vehicle for regenerating east London and re-engineering the populace is bad for sport, and bad for politics.
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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 2 November 2011 |
Tim Black
We need elected members, not the Wingnut of Windsor
The revelation that Prince Charles has the power to veto legislation is shocking, but UK democracy in general has fallen into disrepute.
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| Tuesday 1 November 2011 |
Dave Clements
Why feel charitable towards charities?
Charities in the UK have become far too dependent on state funding, at the cost of their independence.
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| Monday 31 October 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Call off this culture
war against ‘the poor’
In a speech for the Liberty League in London, Brendan O’Neill denounced the dictatorship of
do-gooders colonising poor communities.
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| Wednesday 26 October 2011 |
Mick Hume
EU referendum: democracy is not a ‘distraction’
We cannot suspend democratic debate about Europe’s future while watching the political elites bungle the economic crisis.
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| Wednesday 26 October 2011 |
Neil Davenport
The decline and fall of British Conservatism
The Conservative Party may still live on, but its pragmatic defence of authority, tradition and autonomy are dead.
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| Wednesday 19 October 2011 |
Mick Hume
The unhidden truth about Hillsborough
The political reasons why 96 Liverpool fans died in the football disaster of 1989 have always been clear enough to those who want to see.
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| Monday 17 October 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
These Fox-hunters can’t see the wood for the trees
The anti-Liam Fox lobby didn’t stop to ask: what does it say about today’s civil service that many ministers now fall back on their friends?
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| Tuesday 11 October 2011 |
Mick Hume
For Fox sake, call this politics? That's scandalous
Neither the idiot-abroad UK defence secretary nor scandal-mongering critics seem able to separate important public issues from personal sleaze.
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