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Brendan O’Neill
‘Did I cause the Norway massacre? That’s just silly’
Thilo Sarrazin, controversial author of Germany Abolishes Itself, tells spiked that those blaming him for Norway are ‘insane’.
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| Friday 17 October 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘Climate change denial is a mental disorder’
Ethan Greenhart, author of Can I Recycle My Granny?, scraps with spiked over the recession, breastfeeding and ‘anti-science speech crimes’.
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| Monday 30 April 2007 |
Austin Williams
On trial in the Red Star gallery
Sam Tanenhaus, the American editor and author of a book on McCarthyism, proves to be a prickly interviewee.
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| Thursday 20 April 2006 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘Gambling is a pastime, not a disease’
American addiction expert Stanton Peele chastises British commentators who see gamblers as fickle victims.
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| Thursday 15 September 2005 |
Jennie Bristow
Politics of Fear
Frank Furedi talks about his new book.
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| Wednesday 22 September 2004 |
Brendan O’Neill
Down with 21st century philistinism
Frank Furedi explains why his latest book calls for a new Culture War.
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| Friday 30 July 2004 |
Helene Guldberg
Keep taking the tablets
Forget the scare stories, says Diarmuid Jeffreys, author of a history of aspirin – the little white pill is 'one of the most amazing creations in medical history'.
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| Friday 23 July 2004 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘They have vilified the sun - and me’
Professor Michael Holick, author of The UV Advantage, tells Brendan O’Neill how he was turned into a pariah for suggesting that a little bit of sunlight can be good for you.
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| Wednesday 16 June 2004 |
Brendan O’Neill
More sorry than safe
Professor Sir Colin Berry says our obsession with the precautionary principle is making life more dangerous.
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| Thursday 22 April 2004 |
Ed Barrett
‘It’s stifling, that feeling of falseness’
Ricky Gervais talks to Ed Barrett about The Office and offices.
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| Monday 22 December 2003 |
JJ Charlesworth
'One aesthetic banality is added to another'
Art critic Matthew Collings on the controversy of contemporary art, and why Perry's Turner Prize-winning pots are mundane kitsch.
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| Tuesday 5 November 2002 |
Sandy Starr
Pooh-poohing postmodernism
Frederick Crews, author of the long-awaited sequel to The Pooh Perplex, discusses the transformation of academic disciplines into 'incomprehensible crap'.
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| Tuesday 5 November 2002 |
Sandy Starr
Pooh-poohing postmodernism
Frederick Crews, author of the long-awaited sequel to The Pooh Perplex, discusses the transformation of academic disciplines into 'incomprehensible crap'.
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| Thursday 11 July 2002 |
Helene Guldberg
Positing the positive
Charles Leadbeater, author of Up the Down Escalator, talked to Helene Guldberg about the politics of pessimism.
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| Thursday 24 January 2002 |
Helene Guldberg
‘This is a case of table pounding’
The 'Skeptical Environmentalist' Bjorn Lomborg tells Helene Guldberg how he has weathered the storm of reaction against him.
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| Friday 19 October 2001 |
Brendan O’Neill
Fighting talk: Claire Rayner
Claire Rayner on how Blair's 'war glee' has frightened the socks off her.
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| Friday 9 February 2001 |
Brendan O’Neill
Me and My Vote: Claire Rayner and Virginia Ironside
Claire Rayner and Virginia Ironside, the UK's leading agony aunts, worry about who to vote for at the general election.
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