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Thursday 9 February 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.

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.

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.

Tuesday 24 January 2012
Sean Collins A political fiasco of historic proportions Obama is ailing, yet the bunch of political misfits posing as Republican presidential candidates can’t make any mileage from that.

Tuesday 24 January 2012
Theresa Clifford A mega attack on internet freedom You don’t have to be a fan of the juvenile people behind Megaupload to be worried by the crackdown against it.

Tuesday 24 January 2012
Brendan O’Neill ‘This is becoming an anti-tabloid witch-hunt’ Read the transcript of CBC’s interview with Brendan O’Neill about Leveson, lies and press freedom.

Monday 23 January 2012
Frank Furedi Message to EU meddlers: Hands off Hungary! Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers.

Monday 23 January 2012
Dominic Standish Riding the waves of a cruise crash Dominic Standish reports from Italy on how anti-ship agitators are milking the Concordia tragedy.

Monday 23 January 2012
Nick Thorne Putting plankton before people Eco-warriors who campaign against the building of dams are damning the poor to live at nature’s mercy.

Friday 20 January 2012
Nathalie Rothschild The Obamas: 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.

Friday 20 January 2012
Patrick Hayes Don’t give way to the Top Gear-bashers What Clarkson’s audience understands that his shrill critics do not is that he is not to be taken seriously.

Friday 20 January 2012
Duleep Allirajah Football’s longstanding tradition of change From Leeds United’s all-white strip to terrace chanting, many of the traditions fans take for granted are not so very old.

Friday 20 January 2012
Tom Slater What a Shame: taking sex addiction at face value Steve McQueen’s latest film offers an unconvincing portrayal of a promiscuous yuppie at the mercy of his sexual urges.

Thursday 19 January 2012
Mick Hume The shared delusions of Labour and the unions Labour Party leader Ed Miliband versus the British trade union bosses? A plague on both their empty houses.

Thursday 19 January 2012
Luke Samuel Trial by jury: the case for the defence We should fight hard to defend the right to a jury trial, which remains the ‘lamp that shows that freedom lives’.

Thursday 19 January 2012
Sadhvi Sharma India’s inspiring war on polio The massive human effort that helped make India polio-free shows that greater wealth brings greater health.

Wednesday 18 January 2012
Brendan O’Neill Let’s have a proper debate about the welfare state Hooked on poverty porn, getting the unelected Lords to do their dirty work... there’s little progressive about today’s welfare-defenders.

Wednesday 18 January 2012
Rob Lyons First they came for the smokers... The remorseless illiberal logic of the ‘we don’t like it, so ban it’ lobby is now leeching its way into the lives of meat-eaters.

Wednesday 18 January 2012
Nathalie Rothschild The future of internet freedom left in the dark Opponents of the US web regulations that inspired the Wikipedia blackout have some pretty illiberal tendencies, too.

Tuesday 17 January 2012
Tim Black Costa Concordia: a vessel for anti-consumerist angst Some observers are tastelessly leaping on board the sunken ship to pontificate about the decadence and folly of big, brassy cruise-liners.
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