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Ben Pile
Let’s pick apart this politics of doom
‘Climategate’ confirms what many of us already knew: that claims of future catastrophe are political, not scientific.
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Mark Adnum
Get ready for the annual Meryl Weep
It is right and proper that Meryl Streep hasn’t won an Oscar since Sophie’s Choice in 1982. But just try telling her fans.
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| Monday 8 February 2010 |
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Wendy Kaminer
The retarded state of American politics
With Republicans pandering to the hard right and Democrats labelling their liberal critics ‘retards’, the US political scene is in a weird state of stasis.
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Tim Black
Is the world really poorer without Bo?
The death of tribal languages is sometimes a good thing, revealing the itchy dynamism of human society.
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Brendan O’Neill
Precious: a new kind of ‘blaxploitation’
It’s tipped to win Oscars, yet Precious is black-trash porn designed to titillate Oprahites and Hollywood liberals.
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| Friday 5 February 2010 |
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Sean Collins
The politico-porn behind the presidential race
From libidinous Bill and crazy Hillary to the narcissistic John Edwards, Game Change shines a glorious, gossipy light on American politics.
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Duleep Allirajah
John Terry: let the love rat keep the armband
The England captain may have been a two-timing shit to his wife, but that’s a bad reason for Fabio Capello to sack him.
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Patrick West
Does anyone believe in Danny Dyer?
In a programme that was as much about the much-mocked cockney as UFOs, Dyer showed an unidentified side of himself.
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| Thursday 4 February 2010 |
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Brendan O’Neill
The IPCC: a Vatican for the twenty-first century?
The problem with the IPCC is not that some of its science is dodgy, but the fact that it elevates science per se above politics and democracy.
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Guy Rundle
How to ensure a lizard always gets in
As the Australian experience shows, so-called Alternative Voting obscures rather than expresses the democratic will.
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Dolan Cummings
The first step: admit drinking is normal
Yes, we need a better drinking culture: one where alcohol consumption is not seen as a social problem.
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| Wednesday 3 February 2010 |
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Jennie Bristow
‘We’re afraid of our kids, and we’re afraid for them’
Anthony Horowitz, author of the bestselling teenage spy novels, talks to Jennie Bristow about vetting and the poisoning of adult-child relations.
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Tim Black
On the Equality Bill, the pope has a point
If you believe in freedom of association, then you must accept the right of private institutions to discriminate.
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Nathalie Rothschild
Stop perverting Anne Frank’s diary
Banning the diary from schools because she wrote about sex is bizarre. But so are the attempts to turn it into a guide to life.
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Jason Walsh
Why Ireland needs a new politics
The farcical devolution talks at Stormont should remind us of the need to replace the exhausted institutions, both north and south.
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| Tuesday 2 February 2010 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The war on Dr Wakefield: only 12 years too late
Yes, Dr Andrew Wakefield’s MMR-autism theory was dishonest, but he’s not the only one to blame for the great vaccine scare of the past 12 years.
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David Bowden
The fag-end of the New Labour government
As it heads for possible defeat in a General Election, what is Labour’s big idea? To ban smoking all over again.
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Basham and Luik
A bleary-eyed attitude to alcohol research
It is time we started evaluating studies on the effects of booze on their merits rather than on who happened to fund them.
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