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Wednesday 23 May 2012


Mick Hume A respectable riot against tabloid readers The interrogation of Rebekah Brooks over the NotW exposing paedophiles only exposed the prejudices behind the Leveson inquisition.

Tuesday 15 May 2012
Matthias Heitmann Pirate Party: giving politics a jolly roger The cyber-rights obsessives are not a ‘fresh wind’ - they just show how much politics is screwed.

Tuesday 15 May 2012
Rob Lyons Give food labelling the red light The state’s attempt to colonise our kitchens by crudely labelling food ‘good’ and ‘bad’ is deeply unhealthy.

Monday 14 May 2012
Frank Furedi Gay marriage: redrawing the American political map In officially endorsing same-sex marriage, Obama is signalling that the Democratic Party now has little interest in its old blue-collar supporters.

Monday 14 May 2012
Sean Collins Why I’m coming out... against gay marriage A New York progressive braves the opprobrium of his peers by questioning same-sex marriage.

Monday 14 May 2012
Tim Black Why the Hollygarchy hearts gay marriage Hollywood has become a closed set to anyone who is less than effusive about same-sex marriage.

Friday 11 May 2012
Daniel Ben-Ami The petty politics of the anti-inequality brigade ESSAY: Don’t be fooled by their egalitarian rhetoric - today’s equality campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.

Friday 11 May 2012
Nancy McDermott Thank you, Maurice Sendak In picture and word, Where the Wild Things Are remains a sublime testament to the untamed emotions of childhood.

Friday 11 May 2012
Patrick Hayes Homeland: fear and self-loathing in America One of Homeland’s greatest strengths is that it shows how much modern terrorists now ape liberal Westerners.

Friday 11 May 2012
Duleep Allirajah It’s time to knock out the Europa League Watching Athletic Bilbao and their bonkers coach may make Thursdays fun, but the Europa League is still pointless.

Thursday 10 May 2012
Tim Black It’s not just sex gangs who abuse ‘white trash’ It seems Pakistani sex pests and British politicians share a similar disdain for the allegedly decadent white working class.

Thursday 10 May 2012
Nathalie Rothschild A bad tan doesn't equal a bad parent It should be no business of anti-bronzing health freaks whether ‘tan mum’ chooses to have a burnt-to-the-crisp complexion.

Thursday 10 May 2012
Luke Samuel This defamation bill is no friend of freedom Bizarrely, free-speech activists are cheering a new bill that will entrench the state’s right to decide what we can say.

Wednesday 9 May 2012
Brendan O’Neill Posturing against austerity: an infantile disorder The left-wing groups making electoral gains in Europe are driven by a desire to avoid reality rather than a determination to create a new one.

Wednesday 9 May 2012
Patrick Hayes Beware the celebrity troll-hunters Thin-skinned celebs whining about being bullied by internet ‘trolls’ pave the way for online censorship.

Wednesday 9 May 2012
Yoni Eshpar It’s time to bury Peace Studies Johan Galtung’s anti-Semitic comments were despicable, but the paternalism of his academic brainchild is worse.

Tuesday 8 May 2012
Mick Hume The Incredible Shrinking Mandate The miserable turnout in last week’s British elections confirmed to the isolated political elite that voters are not to be trusted.

Tuesday 8 May 2012
Brendan O’Neill A Boris in every city? No thanks Voters’ rejection of elected city mayors was a rebellion against the ‘reformitis’ of the modern oligarchy.

Tuesday 8 May 2012
Tim Black The catfight over the capital Observers got excited about ‘Red Ken’ vs ‘Blue Boris’, but the electorate could see that both were grey.

Friday 4 May 2012
Tim Black Masses duped by greenwash? Get real! Eliane Glaser’s sceptical take on the world is frequently insightful. But it still takes too many fashionable ideas at face value.
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