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Luke Samuel
‘International justice’
is no justice at all
An international court's trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor dents the democratic rights of West Africans.
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| Tuesday 13 March 2012 |
Luke Samuel
The Kony viral campaign? Dislike
With its inaccuracies and childish arguments, Kony2012 is no help whatsoever to the people of Uganda.
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| Wednesday 11 January 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Taking risks in pursuit of the truth
The jailing of two Swedish journalists in Ethiopia is a powerful reminder of the need for investigative reporting.
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| Tuesday 13 December 2011 |
Philip Alcabes
AIDS and the rise of
the behaviour police
After much self-congratulation amongst safe-sex crusaders on Worlds AIDS Day, Philip Alcabes says their scaremongering was far from a good thing.
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| Wednesday 28 September 2011 |
Tim Black
Why Fairtrade is an unfair deal
Buying Fairtrade products may make consumers feel good, but in reality they amount to a PC-form of bonded labour.
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| Tuesday 9 August 2011 |
Tim Black
Famine in Somalia: it’s not all about us
From climate change to guilt-tripping about donations, the Somalian famine has been framed by Western concerns.
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| Wednesday 29 June 2011 |
Rob Lyons
How to prolong a conflict, ICC-style
The ICC warrant for Gaddafi may make Western powers feel good, but it will make things a whole lot worse in Libya.
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| Tuesday 5 April 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Keeping the poor in the dark
New World Bank rules restricting support for coal-fired power stations will confine millions to poverty.
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| Tuesday 15 March 2011 |
Tim Black
The court where the West judges the Rest
The ICC metes out ‘justice’ to poor countries while denying them any say in their own affairs.
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| Wednesday 23 February 2011 |
Mick Hume
Overdue end to the old world order
The Arab uprisings shocked us all – but perhaps the even bigger surprise is that these empty regimes have taken so long to crumble.
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| Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
Frank Furedi
This yearning for freedom will not lead to theocracy
The fear that the Egyptian uprising will create ‘another Iran’ reveals the extent to which 1979 still haunts the Western imagination.
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| Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The truth about the Muslim Brotherhood
Secularist politics is weak in Egypt partly because the Brotherhood was often used as an attack dog against it.
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| Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
This is so much more than a ‘webolution’
Egyptian bloggers talk exclusively to spiked about why an uprising takes more than technology.
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| Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
Sean Collins
Message to America: Hands off Egypt!
After decades of backing autocrats, the best thing Washington can do for the cause of Egyptian democracy is to butt out.
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| Tuesday 18 January 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Tunisians don’t need advice from the Twittering classes
The inspiring uprising springs from people’s aspiration for real freedom, not from Western Wikileakers revealing ‘the truth’ to Africans.
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| Wednesday 24 November 2010 |
Tim Black
Praising the pope, patronising Africans
It is crazy to believe that Benedict XVI can decide the fate of millions of Africans with one comment about condoms.
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| Thursday 11 November 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Bob Geldof: he’s so overrated
The obsession over whether ‘St Bob’ is the saviour or destroyer of Africa precludes tougher questions about charity appeals.
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| Wednesday 15 September 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
They don’t give a dam about development
Greens must have very hard hearts if they can look at flood-hit Ethiopia and still say ‘don’t build dams’.
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| Monday 16 August 2010 |
Tim Black
Sierra Leone and the White Shoppers’ Burden
The idea that Western consumers can prevent African wars by saying no to ‘blood diamonds’ is pure self-flattery.
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| Monday 16 August 2010 |
Kieron Ryan
This is a 24-carat disaster for Africa
A former diamond-digger in the Congo explains how the ‘blood diamonds’ scare has made life tougher for Africans.
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