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Tim Black
Still getting off on
banker-bashing
Given that it lets the state off the hook for the current economic mess, what's radical about baiting the rich?
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| Tuesday 31 January 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Liberated from the ‘idiocy of rural life’
Over half of China’s population – 691million people – now live in cities. It’s a mind-boggling achievement for mankind.
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| Monday 30 January 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
The moral hijacking of Bloody Sunday
On the 40th anniversary of the paratroopers’ massacre in Derry, it is remarkable how much Britain has exploited this event to its advantage.
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| Monday 30 January 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Hey, why shouldn’t we go to the moon?
Yes, Gingrich’s idea of turning the moon into the 51st state is wacky, but why is everyone so down on space exploration?
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| Monday 30 January 2012 |
Gabrielle Shiner
The misogyny of the
anti-Page 3 brigade
The prudes trying to strip the tabloids of topless pics belittle women far more than any male reader could.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Calories and Corsets: why dieting never went out style
From vomiting and food abstention to mastication and ‘reducing salons’, a new book shows that weight-loss regimes have a long, weird and unhealthy history.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
James Heartfield
With ‘enemies’ like these, who needs friends?
Again and again, the official Italian Communist party helped to prop up Italy’s ruling class, saving it from its potential gravediggers.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Lexy Barber
The latest draft of The Jeanette Winterson Story
In her new autobiography, the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit revisits old ground, mixing misery porn, madness and self-deprecation in an attempt to explain herself.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Running scared of the English Defence League
‘We talk about apathy, then these guys get into politics and we shit ourselves.’ The author of a new report on the EDL talks to spiked.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Tim Black
Bozza: a conformist in eccentric clothing
A new biography is too obsessed with skewering Boris’s personality to expose his real failing: his embrace of Livingstone-like miserabilism.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
From 'Yes we can!' to 'No we can't!'
Jodi Kantor’s gossipy account of America’s first couple reveals their struggle to adjust to the anti-climatic reality of government.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Dominic Standish
Venice: a shifting metaphor for the human condition
In this extract from his new book, Dominic Standish explores how Venice has gone from symbolising brash human vision to being viewed as a victim of eco-degradation.
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| Friday 27 January 2012 |
Jason Walsh
There’s more to progress than biology
Steven Pinker’s new book certainly does much to suggest that humanity is progressing rather than regressing. It’s puzzling then that he gives people so little credit.
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| Thursday 26 January 2012 |
Tim Black
Don't lobby the Lords. Demolish it instead
It is unseemly for so-called progressives to bow and scrape before the second chamber, pleading with it to punish the Lib-Cons.
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| Thursday 26 January 2012 |
David Bowden
The roots of the riots: found in translation
Forget British TV’s feeble attempts to explain urban disarray - look to Scandinavian drama instead.
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| Thursday 26 January 2012 |
Tom Slater
The timeless power of the Bard
Coriolanus won’t tell us much about contemporary politics but it does reveal Shakespeare’s take on the human condition.
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| Wednesday 25 January 2012 |
Mick Hume
The Leveson Inquiry is the enemy of a free press
Now it's out: Lord Justice Leveson wants quasi-state regulation - in the name of 'press freedom'.
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| Wednesday 25 January 2012 |
Rob Lyons
What’s up with the bees?
Two researchers tell spiked that green activists have been a little too keen to blame pesticides for the not-so-great bee die-off.
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| Wednesday 25 January 2012 |
Ben Pile
Greens to sceptics: show us the money!
The campaign to get a tiny charity to reveal its backers is driven by a desire to stamp out any eco-criticism.
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| Wednesday 25 January 2012 |
Sally Millard
How about butting out of family life?
With its latest guilt-tripping wheeze, the anti-smoking lobby seems intent on turning our children against us.
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