http://www.spiked-online.com Humanity is underrated en Copyright 2009 2009-11-06T10:00:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7675/ Frank Furedi explains that the real problem in education isn’t intefering politicians or pushy parents, but a profound crisis of adult authority. Books & Essays, Education 2009-11-06T10:00:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7676/ The most striking thing about this decade is how much of it we spent looking back at past decades. TV and radio 2009-11-06T09:45:00+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7677/ Most Liverpool fans still believe Rafael Benitez is a tactical genius. But the voices of dissent are increasing. Sport 2009-11-06T09:30:22+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7671/ The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion challenges both those who want to cure and those who want to celebrate autism. MMR and autism 2009-11-05T10:11:48+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7672/ The notion that green beliefs in the workplace should be legally protected from ridicule is deeply censorious. Environment 2009-11-05T08:17:13+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7673/ Miserabilists want to make Bonfire Night a less explosive, less colourful affair in the name of protecting pets. No way. Modern life 2009-11-05T05:23:48+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7674/ Jason Walsh spoke to some of those who claim to be the legitimate heirs of 1916 and found their legitimism geeky and unconvincing. Ireland 2009-11-05T04:28:02+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7670/ Grubby elected – and kick-outable – MPs are still more of a democratic choice than squeaky-clean appointed and unaccountable civil servant Sirs. British politics, Vote for Politics 2009-11-04T10:00:51+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7669/ The pro-dolphin documentary The Cove exposes how warped are the misanthropic values of the animal-rights lobby. Film 2009-11-04T09:00:28+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7668/ Prince Edward’s comments may have been crass, but today’s cotton-wool kids need to be allowed to take risks. Risk 2009-11-04T07:59:10+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7665/ With a survey showing that only 15 per cent of Brits are worried about global warming, it’s time to extinguish the ideas warping the public’s mind. 2009-11-03T07:59:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7666/ With the swarm of human beings expected to hit nine billion by 2050, it’s time we discussed tough remedies. 2009-11-03T06:00:15+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7667/ By all means take away the children of obese parents, but parents who smoke and drink are an even greater danger. 2009-11-03T05:10:22+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7661/ It was wrong of the government to sack David Nutt. But it’s also wrong for experts to pose as paragons of wisdom who are above democracy. British politics, Drink and drugs 2009-11-02T10:00:10+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7662/ The interminable debate about whether dope should be a class B or C drug reveals the government’s incoherence. Drink and drugs 2009-11-02T09:45:01+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7663/ The fining of French comedian Dieudonné for publicly insulting Jews is a crime against freedom of speech. Free speech 2009-11-02T09:30:17+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7640/ Frank Furedi, author of the new book Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, talks to Jennie Bristow about the politicisation of education and the crisis of adult authority. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T10:00:40+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7643/ Stephen Roach provides some useful, counterintuitive insights into the economic relationship between America and China, but too often uses the term ‘global imbalance’ as a euphemism for ‘US decline’. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T09:53:47+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7641/ Two new books expose how epidemiology has been used as a tool of propaganda in the war on tobacco – and woe betide anyone who tries to inject some real facts into the debate. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T09:44:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7652/ With the passing of Norman Levitt, a rigorous defender of scientific truth against the relativism and cowardice of the ‘academic left’, we have lost a modern Enlightenment hero. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T09:40:48+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7644/ Richard Overy’s splendid new book on the ‘morbid age’ of the 1920s and 30s sheds light on the emergence of a profound crisis of confidence amongst the bourgeoisie – a crisis that has never quite gone away. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T09:35:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7642/ Larsson’s hugely popular Millennium novels are not only brilliant page-turners – they also challenge the clapped-out view of Sweden as a social paradise peopled by buxom blondes and depressives. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T09:30:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7645/ With his smaller teeth and jaws, what separated Homo erectus from his predecessors was not just eating meat, but cooking what he caught. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T08:15:10+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7646/ British industry isn’t dead by any means, but if low-carbon jobs and protectionism trump new research and development, it soon will be. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T08:05:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7647/ Martin Bell’s account of the expenses scandal has insights, but his willingness to embrace infringements upon parliamentary sovereignty in the name of restoring trust denigrates democracy. review of books - 2009-10 (October) 2009-10-30T08:00:36+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7650/ The Stern-endorsed campaign to stop people eating meat shows that greens have no solutions for society beyond launching wars on enjoyment. Environment, Food 2009-10-29T10:08:45+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7649/ BBC Radio 4’s brave choice to rework the ultra-visual Bullitt showed that old-school noir can still be entertaining. 2009-10-29T09:44:38+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7651/ The arguments that football fans have become too abusive and more inclined to violence don’t stack up. 2009-10-29T09:20:35+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7637/ The ‘would Churchill have supported the BNP?’ furore says more about politics today than it does about the role of ‘our hero’ in history. British politics 2009-10-28T10:00:06+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7638/ The radical-atheist assaults on the late sister of Calcutta are the intellectual equivalent of mugging an old woman. Religion 2009-10-28T09:45:51+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7639/ Jimmy Carr is only the latest public figure to fall victim to the ‘offence hounds’ who love being scandalised. Free speech 2009-10-28T09:30:28+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7628/ People are right to be sceptical about the swine-flu scare, but it is telling – and worrying – that they focus their scepticism on swine-flu jabs. Health, Pandemic fears 2009-10-27T09:46:03+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7629/ In a speech for the Battle of Ideas, Tiffany Jenkins argued that cultural diplomacy leads to bad art and bad politics. Arts and entertainment 2009-10-27T07:57:44+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7630/ Ed Miliband’s ‘climate map’ confirms that climate change is the only thing providing New Labour with a sense of mission. Environment, Science and technology 2009-10-27T02:00:12+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7625/ As the sex-trafficking scare is exposed as a tissue of lies, Nathalie Rothschild spells out the need for full freedom of movement for migrants. Crime and the law, Immigration, Liberties, Open borders campaign 2009-10-26T09:55:01+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7626/ A proposal to ban lighting up in New York’s parks has exposed the puritanical agenda behind the crusade against smoking. Smoking, USA 2009-10-26T09:01:41+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7627/ The lack of hysteria at a new influx of refugee boats to Australia has disappointed pro- and anti-refugee groups alike. Australia, Immigration, Open borders campaign 2009-10-26T08:16:37+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7611/ Question Time was no victory for rigorous and free debate – it merely confirmed Nick Griffin’s elevation as the voodoo doll of public life. British politics, Liberties, Race 2009-10-23T10:36:45+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7612/ Alex Hochuli reports from a London university that showed Question Time on a big screen in a bar, football-style. British politics, Liberties 2009-10-23T09:50:12+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7608/ Patrick Hayes joined the rabble of censors protesting outside BBC Television Centre in the run-up to Question Time. British politics, Free speech 2009-10-23T09:48:41+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7606/ Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change took an unusually empathic look at ‘gender dysphoria’ amongst children. TV and radio 2009-10-23T09:44:57+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7607/ Eight weeks in and Liverpool’s season might already be over – thanks, in part, to a little comedy intervention. Sport 2009-10-23T09:29:34+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7603/ Just because the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently reached 10,000, that doesn’t mean the US economy is springing back to life. Economy, Financial crisis, USA 2009-10-22T09:45:28+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7604/ Tim Black reports from a radical-left anti-BNP rally at which free speech was denounced as ‘nonsense’. British politics, Free speech 2009-10-22T09:00:20+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7600/ Cartoonist Sarnath Banerjee illustrates how a website about a sexy Indian sister-in-law got the censors hot under the collar. Asia, Free speech 2009-10-22T08:00:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7596/ Behind the UK postal dispute is the spectre of privatisation and the authorities’ inability to take responsibility for basic state services. British politics, Economy, Politics 2009-10-21T09:30:28+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7597/ Opening up UK family courts to the public will not lead to social worker witch-hunts, but to greater public trust. Crime and the law, Parents and kids 2009-10-21T07:13:03+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7598/ For Hamid Karzai to justify the West’s unjustified war, the Afghan presidential elections had to be rigged. Afghanistan 2009-10-21T04:29:04+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7592/ New Labour’s craven justification for maintaining the Royal Prerogative shows that today’s political class doesn’t trust the people – or itself. British politics 2009-10-20T07:15:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7591/ A BBC News journalist's willingness to report more than climate orthodoxy should be encouraged not condemned. Environment, Free speech, Science and technology 2009-10-20T07:00:49+00:00