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Patrick Hayes
The hunger for a simpler, black-and-white world
The Hunger Games trilogy is the fictional equivalent of Occupy’s adolescent worldview. No wonder it’s a hit.
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| Friday 27 April 2012 |
David Bowden
Imagining a world where no one can be trusted
Populated by acts of nihilistic terror and domestic surveillance, Ken Macleod's fantastic new novel explores the dystopian possibilities of the present.
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| Thursday 26 April 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Is Murdoch really
a lizard in a suit?
The Murdoch-bashing of the smart set who believes he ‘controls Britain’ has crossed the line from rational inquiry into David Icke territory.
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| Thursday 26 April 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Barcelona are crying out for Andy Carroll
As Chelsea stood resolute in the face of endless tedious passing, it became clear what Barcelona needed: a big lummox up front.
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| Thursday 26 April 2012 |
Martin Cullip
Will it be au revoir
to ’Allo, ’Allo?
Cowardly broadcasters are blacklisting TV classics like It Ain’t Half Hot Mum for fear of causing offence.
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| Thursday 26 April 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Audience charming in the Yemen
Lasse Hallström’s rom-com serves up an appealingly fishy main with a side of political satire, but that only gets it so far.
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| Wednesday 25 April 2012 |
Mick Hume
History and politics are never a ‘High Court’ matter
It is a sad sign when a leading war reporter can declare that big issues are not for ‘media debate’ and threaten critics with libel writs.
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| Wednesday 25 April 2012 |
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Greece: a police state
made by the EU
The EU is usually the first to moralise about human rights and democracy, but not when it comes to Greece.
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| Wednesday 25 April 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A nation of cake-
loving racists?
Those keen to brand Sweden racist on the basis of a tasteless gateau need to get some perspective.
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| Tuesday 24 April 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Who made Jamie Oliver the Emperor of Eating?
The celebrity chef now has such a fattened sense of self-importance that he thinks he has the right to lecture elected politicians.
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| Tuesday 24 April 2012 |
Chris Snowdon
Old moralism in new packaging
The current campaign to force cigarettes into plain packets is driven by an ugly Prohibitionist zeal.
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| Tuesday 24 April 2012 |
Patrick Basham
Monkey see, monkey smoke?
Despite anti-smoking activists’ claims, a fancy fag packet does not turn us into 20-a-day nicotine fiends.
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| Tuesday 24 April 2012 |
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
What’s really behind the crisis in caring?
Last night’s BBC Panorama showed how grim some care homes are. But more bureaucratic monitoring is not the solution.
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| Monday 23 April 2012 |
Tim Black
Abu Qatada and the farcical fearmongers
If there is one thing worse than successive governments’ hyping up of hate preachers, it’s their inability to do much about them.
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| Monday 23 April 2012 |
Sandy Starr
Is autism just another identity?
ESSAY: With so many people being added to the ‘autism spectrum’, a disorder is being transformed into a lifestyle.
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| Monday 23 April 2012 |
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
It’s not just the truants bunking off education
Charlie Taylor’s proposals to crack down on truancy miss the point about how schools really fail children.
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| Friday 20 April 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
The hunger for a simpler,
black-and-white world
The Hunger Games trilogy is the fictional equivalent of Occupy’s adolescent worldview. No wonder it’s a hit.
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| Friday 20 April 2012 |
Duleep Allirajah
Controversy makes the football go round
Football doesn’t need technological gizmos to prevent its demise - heated debate is its lifeblood.
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| Friday 20 April 2012 |
David Bowden
So long Ceefax, I shall miss you
Despite the clunky graphics and slow-to-change pages, Ceefax and Teletext always offered unexpected pleasures.
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| Friday 20 April 2012 |
Tom Slater
The oddball charm of a Nazi-hunting goth
Packed full of intriguing characters, offbeat drama-comedy This Must Be The Place even manages to make Sean Penn likeable.
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