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Nathalie Rothschild
After thoughtcrime, now we have tweetcrime
The conviction of a Twitter user for posting a joke about a bomb shows how insanely paranoid officialdom has become.
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| Thursday 11 February 2010 |
Valerie Hartwich
Building a fortress around British academia
A new report shows just how devastating, irrational and unfair are the UK’s restrictions on international students.
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| Thursday 11 February 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
It is the liberal elite that feels tortured
Why has torture become a flashpoint political issue today when it was so flagrantly ignored in the past?
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| Tuesday 26 January 2010 |
Tim Black
The opportunism of a caveman
By latching on to the ‘heroic’ Pantsman, bin Laden proved he is an attention-seeking exploiter of Western anxiety.
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| Thursday 21 January 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A pants response to the terrorism threat
Gordon Brown’s stringent security measures in response to one failed bombing show the madness of the ‘war on terror’.
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| Wednesday 13 January 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Can we have our Voltaire back please?
Voltaire’s belief in freedom of speech has been so spectacularly abandoned by mainstream society that it can now be co-opted by radical Islamists.
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| Wednesday 13 January 2010 |
Tim Black
Why they hate this ‘modern Machiavelli’
The idea that Alastair Campbell is single-handedly responsible for the disaster of Iraq is politically bonkers.
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| Monday 11 January 2010 |
James Heartfield
Yemen: taking another beating from the West
The post-Pantsman labelling of Yemen as a hotbed of terrorism is not the first time that nation has been unfairly demonised.
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| Thursday 7 January 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Wootton Bassett: a
political pantomime
The clash between self-pitying Islamists and weeping military men is a perfect metaphor for the ‘war on terror’.
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| Monday 4 January 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
How did Pantsman conquer the world?
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s promotion from loser to enemy of civilisation suggests the politics of fear is a bigger threat than bitter individuals.
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| Thursday 17 September 2009 |
Tim Black
Osama bin Laden’s
cut-and-paste job
The al-Qaeda frontman’s latest address to the American people wouldn’t sound out of place in mainstream US politics.
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| Wednesday 16 September 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Hands off my camera!
spiked joined a ‘flash mob’ where photographers stood up against anti-terror laws and defended the right to snap.
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| Monday 7 September 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Afghanistan: the dangers of a risk-averse war
In continually advertising their fear of suffering casualties on the battlefield, Britain’s rulers are unwittingly strengthening their enemies’ hand.
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| Monday 7 September 2009 |
Patrick Hayes
The myth of Afghan terrorism
Contrary to Gordon Brown’s claims, no Afghan has been involved in the terror attacks of the past 10 years.
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| Wednesday 19 August 2009 |
Mick Hume
Afghan questions: eight years too late
There has been no serious opposition to the West’s disastrous war in Afghanistan since 2001. What’s behind the outburst of questions now?
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| Wednesday 15 July 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Afghanistan: the war for New Labour’s soul
All of those who are suddenly asking ‘Why are we in Afghanistan?’ should look for the answer, not in Helmand or Kabul, but at home.
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| Wednesday 15 July 2009 |
Tim Black
The defeatism of the anti-war movement
Instead of opposing the war in Afghanistan on principle, the anti-war movement has merely exploited Western failures.
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| Friday 10 July 2009 |
Philip Hammond
Al-Qaeda: it’s not big and it’s not clever
What do suicide bombers and environmentalists have in common? Faisal Devji explains in his daring new book on contemporary terrorism.
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| Monday 6 April 2009 |
David Chandler
‘This matters greatly to our public opinion’
Widespread opposition to a proposed Afghan law is less about liberating women than shoring up Western authority.
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| Wednesday 25 March 2009 |
David Chandler
Blaming Karzai for the West’s failures
It is not the Afghan PM’s corruption that has wrecked Afghanistan, but the disarray of the invading powers.
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