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Mick Hume
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will
Reviving the motto of the old Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci provides a starting point for tackling the crisis of politics today.
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| Wednesday 22 September 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Hands off our testicles!
Two men have been found guilty of ‘providing sperm without a licence’. But is there a man in Britain who hasn’t done that?
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| Wednesday 15 September 2010 |
Tim Black
Kevin the Teenager takes over Britain
Today’s incessant intellectual attacks on the baby boomers are really just a pubescent cry of ‘I HATE YOU!’.
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| Monday 14 June 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
The rise and rise of the Champagne Malthusians
spiked’s editor joined the population-control lobby in a posh church in London as they quaffed ‘luxury’ drinks and fretted about overbreeding.
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| Thursday 17 December 2009 |
James Howell
The victory of Greenthink on campus
James Howell thought university life would be filled with junk food, non-conformism and critical thinking. He was wrong.
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| Thursday 30 April 2009 |
Tim Black
At least the recession will ‘slow down London’
Why the well-heeled, slow-witted campaigners of the Slow Movement are welcoming the economic downturn.
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| Monday 9 March 2009 |
Tim Black
Whatever happened to ‘affluenza’?
The therapeutic elite has slyly shifted from blaming wealth to blaming poverty for our alleged mental instability.
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| Friday 19 December 2008 |
Tim Black
Outwitting our inner censor
From ancient Rome to 9/11, jokes have long been a way for humans to fart in the face of conventional logic, expectation and morality.
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| Friday 18 April 2008 |
Duleep Allirajah
Arsenal: the ‘beautiful losers’ of football
If he wants the Gooners to stop being perpetual bridesmaids, Arsene Wenger must forget about playing pretty and try playing to win.
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| Tuesday 15 April 2008 |
Ed Barrett
The seventh circle
of Dewsbury
Abductors, bombers, kids hanged from trees, crucified men... apparently Dewsbury has them all. Or is the media just making it up?
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| Friday 7 March 2008 |
Kevin Yuill
Colin Norris and the ‘ageing timebomb’
Was the murder of four pensioners by a British nurse a savage expression of today’s devaluation of older people’s lives?
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| Friday 18 January 2008 |
Helene Guldberg
Humanity, thou art sick
Shyness is now ‘social phobia’, and dissent is ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’. How did everyday emotions come to be seen as illnesses?
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| Friday 14 September 2007 |
Duleep Allirajah
The English disease: a loss of perspective
England’s wins against Israel and Russia show that we’re not as bad or as good as we think. We’re life’s perennial quarter-finalists.
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| Monday 10 September 2007 |
Ken McLaughlin
Look on the bright side of 'later life'
Ignore reports that depict millions of elderly people as the victims of abuse or mental illness. Getting older is better than it's ever been.
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| Thursday 16 August 2007 |
James Panton
Let us celebrate the freedom of flight
There’s more to manmade flight than the spewing of CO2 molecules: flying is liberating and enlightening, and that’s why millions of us do it.
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| Thursday 9 August 2007 |
Andrew Calcutt
1967: the summer of possibilities
There was more to the ‘summer of love’ than zoning out, says a writer who spent it reading the NME and fumbling with girls.
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| Friday 3 August 2007 |
Nancy McDermott
‘Parents take parenting far too seriously’
The widow of Dr Spock – author of the Bible of parenting guides – says he'd be horrified by today's avalanche of advice for mums and dads.
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| Monday 18 June 2007 |
Brandon Robshaw
Attack of the billboard brutalists
Murder, rape, torture, gang warfare: the billboard headlines for local newspapers are an assault on the senses.
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| Monday 11 June 2007 |
Helene Guldberg
Are children being held hostage by parental fears?
A new report calls on parents to let their kids venture out unsupervised. That might be easier if scaremongering officials put a sock in it.
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| Thursday 7 June 2007 |
Martyn Perks
‘It looks like Lisa Simpson giving head’
The bizarre squashed swastika that is the London 2012 Olympics logo perfectly captures the authorities' confusion about what the Games are for.
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