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Patrick Hayes
Free speech on Facebook? Think again
The prosecution of a teenager for sounding off about British soldiers on Facebook should be of concern to us all.
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| Thursday 1 March 2012 |
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Why there’s a crisis of compassion
When society doesn’t respect wisdom and experience, is it any wonder carers don't respect the elderly?
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| Tuesday 28 February 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
The war on workfare is worse than workfare itself
The pity and tears of the anti-workfare lobby are far more insulting to working-class youth than asking them to stack shelves in Tesco.
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| Tuesday 21 February 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
The Penn is mightier than the sword
Argentina's use of Sean Penn to goad Britain over the Falklands confirms the terrifying power of celebrity today.
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| Wednesday 15 February 2012 |
Tim Black
The pursuit of Lansley is a masterclass in cliquishness
Anyone who thinks the Tory infighting over Andrew Lansley’s NHS bill is a clash of principles should think again. It is class-A bitchiness.
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| Wednesday 15 February 2012 |
Neil Davenport
Maybe the jobless should get on their bikes
No self-respecting working-class youth should choose the dole, live with mum and dad and while away his free time.
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| Tuesday 14 February 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
The real reason we should cut aid to India
When Britain begs India to keep taking handouts, you know aid is more about nourishing soulless Westerners than feeding hungry Southerners.
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| Tuesday 14 February 2012 |
Luke Samuel
The biggest problem with Qatada? He’s innocent
Abu Qatada has been incarcerated for nine years, and not once has he been found guilty of anything illegal.
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| Wednesday 8 February 2012 |
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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