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Frank Furedi
We don’t need experts to teach us how to be civil
A new report calls on officialdom to ‘nudge’ the masses towards civilised behaviour. It isn’t only a patronising idea, but a dangerous one.
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| Tuesday 20 September 2011 |
Tim Black
Trying to nudge us towards decency
The Lib-Con government’s obsession with nudging suggests it sees us as mere putty to be remoulded at will.
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| Thursday 21 July 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Why the state should butt out of our personal lives
It is a sign of the times that the only debate we seem to have about nudging is ‘does it work?’ rather than ‘what gives them the right?’.
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| Tuesday 28 June 2011 |
Jan Bowman
The barbarians within the arts establishment
The drive to use art to change people’s behaviour is as contemptuous of us as it is of culture.
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| Thursday 12 May 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The Cube: welcome to your eco-prison cell
Apparently our unwillingness to live in cramped, low-energy homes reveals our psychological flaws.
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| Tuesday 4 January 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Lib-Cons: following New Labour’s diet
Andrew Lansley’s health vouchers scheme exposes the coalition’s view of the masses as unhealthy and a bit thick.
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| Monday 6 December 2010 |
Basham and Luik
Treating people like lab rats
When it comes to UK health policy, dodgy Nudge-style psychology is just as oppressive as New Labour nannying.
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| Wednesday 1 December 2010 |
Tim Black
Resist this nudge towards sobriety
The UK government’s decision to raise duty on high-strength lager in order to change our behaviour diminishes us all.
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| Monday 15 November 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Turning New York into a nudgocracy
City Hall is now awash with Nudge-inspired brain invaders, and they’re threatening to zap the spirit and soul from the greatest city on Earth.
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| Monday 1 November 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
A message to the illiberal Nudge Industry: push off
The ‘politics of the brain’ is a threat to choice, freedom and democracy – which is why spiked is declaring war against it.
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| Wednesday 5 May 2010 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Public health and the obsession with behaviour
ESSAY: Recent thinking on health policy has been driven by two myths: that bad health is caused by bad habits, and that government can promote good health by changing our behaviour.
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| Tuesday 6 April 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Now the elite wants to colonise our brains
As the election date is announced, it’s becoming clear that the political class views the electorate as an incomprehensible, inscrutable blob.
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| Monday 29 December 2008 |
Martyn Perks
‘Nudging’: the very antithesis of choice
‘Libertarian paternalism’ represents a retreat from political debate, and the rise of a base psychological agenda that wants to make us conform on green, health and lifestyle issues.
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| Tuesday 17 July 2007 |
Rob Lyons
A 'fat tax'? Get stuffed
Rob Lyons gives a big fat finger to those who would add taxes to junk food in order to save the masses from themselves.
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