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Rob Lyons
An energy policy
for dimwits
The UK government’s new energy strategy is about muddling through, not powering society forward.
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Jason Walsh
How smokers’ rights are being vapourised
The anti-smoking lobby has now targeted electronic cigarettes in order to crack down even on the ‘notion’ of smoking.
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| Tuesday 22 May 2012 |
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Tim Black
Don’t let these killjoys kill the Olympic spirit
From talk of terrorism and crime to claims that London will become a ‘hotbed of diseases’, why is officialdom so down on the Olympics?
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Nathalie Rothschild
The Dictator: satirising America
Sacha Baron Cohen’s rollicking comedy about a tinpot tyrant is more a send-up of Americans than Arabs.
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Colin McInnes
Bringing new life
to dead matter
Human beings have the potential to transform the universe, so let’s not lose sleep about turning it into ‘grey goo’.
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| Monday 21 May 2012 |
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Frank Furedi
Parental determinism: a most harmful prejudice
David Cameron’s proposed parenting classes are built on the bizarre and destructive idea that parenting determines society’s fortunes.
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Nancy McDermott
Time magazine did not invent the mommy wars
A cover image of a mother breastfeeding her four-year-old has aroused ire, but debates about parenting aren’t new.
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Ken McLaughlin
When red tape is a good thing
Ignore social workers’ claims about red tape costing lives – it shouldn’t be easy for the state to intervene in family life.
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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Parenting: you learn it on the job
The government wants to take anxiety out of parenting, but suffering anxiety is crucial to becoming a good parent.
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| Friday 18 May 2012 |
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Dolan Cummings
UK cultural policy: using art to divide us
By promoting diversity through culture, UK policymakers have ignored precisely what makes art so valuable: its universality.
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David Bowden
It’s not too late
to cross The Bridge
An autistic investigator, a grisly murder, sleek furniture: The Bridge has all you’d expect from Scandi thrillers.
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Duleep Allirajah
The end of the
United Empire?
Don’t blame the ‘noisy neighbours’ at City, the real problem for United is they’ve lost their all-conquering aura.
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Patrick West
Does it matter if you’re black or white?
The deaths of culture-defying musicians Adam Yauch and Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn are a reminder of music's skin-tone sensitivities.
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| Thursday 17 May 2012 |
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Josie Appleton
These petty laws are an insult to the public
Yes, let’s get rid of Britain’s mad ban on using ‘insulting’ words. But don’t ignore the rest of the state’s criminalisation of everyday behaviour.
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Ben Pile
‘The real enemy is humanity itself’
At Rio+20 next month, the world’s elites will meet in Brazil with the aim of holding back human progress.
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Wendy Kaminer
‘I've never seen people smiling so broadly’
US civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer says progressives should welcome the rise of gay marriage.
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