Home Mobile version spiked plus About spiked What is spiked? Support spiked spiked shop Contact us Advertising Summer school Top issues Abortion Arab uprisings British politics Economy Environment For Europe, Against the EU Free speech Fukushima Nudge Obesity Occupy protests Parents and kids Population US election 2012 USA View all issues... special feature The Counter-Leveson Inquiry other sections  Letters  Review of Books  Monthly archive selected authors Duleep Allirajah Daniel Ben-Ami Tim Black Jennie Bristow Sean Collins Dr Michael Fitzpatrick Frank Furedi Helene Guldberg Patrick Hayes Mick Hume Rob Lyons Brendan O’Neill Nathalie Rothschild James Woudhuysen more authors... RSS feed		spiked review of books Issue No. section issue May 2012 previous issues by Jason Walsh Don’t ban it. Get over it! by Luke Samuel It is time we burst this ‘bubbling’ by Peter Lloyd Banning broccoli? You protest too much by Martin Cullip Why gay marriage is a very bad idea by Brendan O’Neill Stand up if you hate this law by Luke Samuel The elites are making a virtue of intolerance by Frank Furedi ‘Comedians have a right to be offensive. But they should also be funny’ by Tim Black Freedom of religion is not a right-wing thing by Nathalie Rothschild A perverted ruling that degrades us all by Luke Samuel A sober reflection on ‘dangerous drinking’ by Timandra Harkness The misogyny of the anti-Page 3 brigade by Gabrielle Shiner The Leveson Inquiry is the enemy of a free press by Mick Hume How about butting out of family life? by Sally Millard A mega attack on internet freedom by Theresa Clifford ‘This is becoming an anti-tabloid witch-hunt’ by Brendan O’Neill Licensed to censor performance art by Manick Govinda Welcome to the Nagging Health Service by Rob Lyons Using tabloid tactics to slay the tabloids by Brendan O’Neill Celtic fans: you’re not singing anymore by Kevin Rooney Singing freely across the Old Firm divide by Stuart Waiton No more room for ‘the huddled masses’ by Nathalie Rothschild Lars von Trier and the dogma of hate speech by Jacob Mchangama From snap happy to ban happy by Nick Thorne Taking the liberal out of the Lib Dems by Patrick Hayes The Battle of Cable Street it wasn’t by Patrick Hayes Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a modern-day scapegoat by Tim Black Why the state should butt out of our personal lives by Rob Lyons What’s really motoring this anti-Murdoch crusade? by Brendan O’Neill An unholy marriage of snobbery and snideyness by Frank Furedi Is this just ‘ID cards without the cards’? by Patrick Hayes A demeaning epidemic of injunctionitis by Tim Black Post-Mosley, free speech is still the loser by Tessa Mayes The war between fact and fallacy in US politics by Wendy Kaminer On the wrong track over iPhone privacy by Tim Black The culture war behind the Will’n’Kate debate by Frank Furedi It’s not 1981 all over again by Mick Hume Up the Yid Army! by Frank Furedi An Observer of the public’s ‘speech crimes’ by Patrick Hayes by Tim Black Banning the burqa: an assault on freedom by Brendan O’Neill Why there’s no consensus on the 2011 census by Tim Black Maybe Britain needs a First Amendment, too by Kenny Hodgart First they came for the faux fascists by Patrick Hayes Demonising Celtic and Rangers fans by Kevin Rooney Turning drinkers into social lepers by Tim Black We need a ‘No to ASA’ campaign by Patrick Hayes A fitting tribute to the ‘forgotten Suffragette’ by Tim Black Why does the EU prefer predators to people? by Nathalie Rothschild Don’t blame tolerance for this multicultural mess by Frank Furedi The Human Rights Act: a crime against liberty by Jon Holbrook Let’s make 2011 the year of free speech by Nathalie Rothschild Is this the Big Brother Society? by Patrick Hayes Resist this nudge towards sobriety by Tim Black Rage against the x‑ray machine by Tim Black What happens when you opt out of the scanner by Brendan O’Neill A Paine in the ass for modern America by Brendan O’Neill Turning New York into a nudgocracy by Brendan O’Neill Let’s blow free speech restrictions sky high by Rob Lyons Terror: ‘f***ing calm down’ and carry on by Mick Hume Kings can swear, factoryhands can’t by Tim Black Don’t ban the burqa - but don’t celebrate it, either by Brendan O’Neill There’s nothing Enlightened about the new equality law by Brendan O’Neill Turning the workplace into a school playground by Tim Black Why shouldn’t we have the right to pack heat? by Christopher White A dozen reasons to stub out the smoking ban by Joe Jackson How Jon Gaunt became a free-speech martyr by Rob Lyons Turning us into a nation full of suspects by Tim Black Don’t tinker with the vetting rules: scrap them by Josie Appleton Stop policing our thoughts, including the hateful ones by Brendan O’Neill Criminalising the rough and tumble of politics by Tim Black Why I will always stand up for permissiveness by Frank Furedi Smile, the EU is watching you by Patrick Hayes Don’t arrest Brian Haw, but don’t idolise him either by Brendan O’Neill Prohibition, one binge drinker at a time by Patrick Hayes Want to travel abroad? Computer says ‘No’ by Patrick Hayes After thoughtcrime, now we have tweetcrime by Nathalie Rothschild Dog-fighting videos: a free speech issue by Tim Black A queer attack on personal conscience by Tim Black Thou shalt not criticise homosexuals by Nathalie Rothschild The paedophile panic: a product of elite hysteria by Tim Black First they came for the neo-fascists... by Tim Black ID cards: there’s more than money to lose by Patrick Hayes Building a fortress around British academia by Valerie Hartwich Putting free men under house arrest by David Bowden Turning teachers into objects of suspicion by Jennie Bristow Now they’re giving up more than cigarettes by Mick Hume Let’s stagger to the barricades by Tim Black by Tim Black by Chris Snowdon Privacy is not a royal privilege by Nathalie Rothschild Don’t make libel law ‘fairer’. Make it history by Nathalie Rothschild Welfare: how help becomes a hindrance by David Clements Modern Warfare 2 has not made me a terrorist by Shane O’Neill We must stop being tolerant of repression by Wendy Kaminer ‘Rescue’: a new PC term for repatriation by Nathalie Rothschild The new divide in British politics: Us and Him by Brendan O’Neill Hating Nick: a shared national experience by Alex Hochuli A naked assault on our right to privacy by Nathalie Rothschild Hey, union, leave us kids alone! by Shane O’Neill previous issues
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