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Monday 8 April 2013 Parents and kids
Jennie Bristow
‘Pro-family’ politicians: a threat to the family
Social conservatives, take note: it is oxymoronic to try to strengthen the family by bombarding parents with patronising advice.

Wednesday 20 February 2013
Joan Wolf
‘Infant formula has enhanced lives’
Joan Wolf, author of Is Breast Best?, answers your questions on formula, fearmongering and free speech.

Thursday 10 January 2013
Helene Guldberg
Does watching TV give you cancer? Of course not
News reports claiming that TV-addicted kids risk getting cancer confirm that the scaremongers mean business in 2013. It’s time to fight back.

Tuesday 27 November 2012
Brendan O’Neill
It’s not just UKIP parents who are under suspicion
The Rotherham fostering controversy isn’t a mad one-off - it’s the logical conclusion to the intensification of state meddling in parents’ lives.

Monday 26 November 2012
Frank Furedi
The invention of yet
another form of abuse

A new report claiming that thousands of British children are being sexually exploited is built on alarmist moralising rather than hard facts.

Monday 26 November 2012
Tim Black
Revisiting the
Satanic panic

ESSAY: 20 years after families were ripped apart by hysterical officials, the lessons of that scandal haven’t been learnt.

Monday 26 November 2012
Neil Davenport
Don’t let them rewrite the Cleveland debacle
Some are using the Savile panic to rehabilitate the state’s unhinged child-protection policies. We must stop them.

Wednesday 21 November 2012
Eero Iloniemi
Standing up for the school bully
Cross-Europe anti-bullying campaigns underestimate children’s resilience and overestimate their fragility.

Tuesday 20 November 2012
Tim Black
Why mum is better than Big Mother
It is better for children to be with their parents, even those deemed ‘bad’ by the state, than to languish in care.

Tuesday 13 November 2012
Frank Furedi
The vigilantism of the Little Bullingdons
The current ‘paedo hysteria’ is being fanned, not by low-rent tabloid papers, but by politicians, serious journalists and the Twitterati.

Monday 5 November 2012
Victoria Scott
No, I am not scarred for life
I was abused as a child, but I won’t define myself as ‘damaged’. I have chosen to do something more life-affirming – move on.

Thursday 1 November 2012
Brendan O’Neill
We need a Full Stop
to this scaremongering

The NSPCC and others have leapt upon the Savile scandal to promote their claims that child abuse is rife in modern Britain. But it isn’t.

Wednesday 24 October 2012
Luke Gittos
An inhumane presumption of guilt
As the Savile scandal reaches a new pitch, key principles of criminal justice are being sacrificed at the altar of victimhood.

Wednesday 17 October 2012
Helene Guldberg
Switch off the junk science, not the TV
The recent claim that too much television is bad for children is just another policy agenda dressed up as science.

Monday 15 October 2012
Brendan O’Neill
Savile: the mad hunt for a conspiracy of witches
With its contagion of accusation and counter-accusation, the Savile scandal has exposed the Salem-style irrationalism of the modern elite.

Thursday 5 July 2012
Rania Hafez
Don’t protect us from ‘forced’ marriages
The government says it wants to liberate ethnic-minority women. Actually it’s infantalising us.

Monday 2 July 2012
Frank Furedi
The bigotry of the
anti-circumcision zealots

ESSAY: Today’s campaigning against circumcision is so dogmatic and intolerant it makes the old religions look enlightened in comparison.

Wednesday 27 June 2012
Nancy McDermott
An invitation for kids to be cruel
The humiliation of New York bus monitor Karen Klein reveals a great deal about the erosion of adult authority.

Thursday 21 June 2012
Patrick Hayes
Punished for
supporting the EDL?

A mum in northern England believes her kids were taken because of her political views. She talks to spiked.

Thursday 14 June 2012
Tim Black
Officialdom’s pervy fantasy world
Recent reports of rampant child abuse in the UK owe more to the sordid mindset of officialdom than fact.

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Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.



15 May 2013
St Angelina, save
us from ourselves!

14 May 2013
Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life

17 May 2013:
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.


17 May 2013:
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up