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Tuesday 16 October 2012
Welcome to the politics of pastiche
Our political leaders are so bereft of ideas that they have taken to plundering the slogans of yesteryear.

Monday 13 August 2012
Why facts cut no ice
in the climate debate
Reports of Greenland’s ice melting are overheated because the eco-outlook poisons both science and politics.

Tuesday 3 July 2012
Rio+20: a tyranny
of green do-gooders
The latest ‘save the planet’ shindig provided yet another chance for political poseurs to dictate our future.

Thursday 17 May 2012
‘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.

Tuesday 28 February 2012
Greens, face it: we’re just not that into you
As ‘Fakegate’ inconvenient truth for greens is there is no denialist conspiracy blocking climate-change action.

Tuesday 14 February 2012
Climate-change alarmism: fuelled by fantasy
As a study of the state of the world’s glaciers indicates, climate catastrophists are still making it up as they go along.

Wednesday 25 January 2012
Greens to sceptics: show us the money!
The campaign to get a tiny charity to reveal its backers is driven by a desire to stamp out any eco-criticism.

Wednesday 14 December 2011
The delusions of the climate technocrats
The last people you should trust to save the world are the whiners and bureaucrats gathered in Durban.

Monday 21 November 2011
Not the BEST way to debate climate
A study prompted by ‘Climategate’ has been held up as proof that sceptics are wrong. The truth is far murkier.

Wednesday 28 September 2011
Time to put this morality tale on ice
Greens are using misinformation about melting Arctic ice caps to try to scare us into accepting their reactionary policies.

Monday 12 September 2011
Wishing Greenpeace an unhappy birthday
For 40 years, big green NGOs have helped to denigrate democracy and stand in the way of progress.

Friday 29 July 2011
Admit it: environmentalism was an ugly experiment
Mark Lynas has converted from being an eco-alarmist to a pro-growth rationalist. But he still doesn’t get the problem with green thinking.

Friday 22 July 2011
Admit it: environmentalism was an ugly experiment
Mark Lynas has converted from eco-alarmist to pro-growth rationalist. But he still doesn’t get the problem with green thinking.

Thursday 26 May 2011
Putting humanity in a kangaroo court
When Nobel laureates staged a mock eco-trial in Stockholm last week, they were really demanding to rule the world.

Monday 4 April 2011
Fukushima: why greens turned on each other
The reaction to events in Japan shows that fear – of climate change or radiation – trumps old solidarities.

Monday 14 March 2011
Making mountains out of meltdowns
Despite the scaremongering of the media and green groups, the real lesson of Fukushima is that nuclear power is safe.

Tuesday 1 February 2011
Scepticism is not an ‘attack on science’
Scientific institutions undermine their own authority when they say we should ‘take sides’ over climate change.

Tuesday 18 January 2011
A tedious dollop of eco‑propaganda
Unlike its earlier exhibits, the Science Museum’s new climate-change exhibition neither inspires nor educates.

Wednesday 8 December 2010
Cancun: scavenging around for scientific fact
At a time of great doubt about climate change, policymakers must magic up more ‘evidence’ of manmade mayhem.

Monday 8 November 2010
What the greens really got wrong
Channel 4’s mea culpa from two leading environmentalists still took for granted that humanity faces insuperable natural limits.

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Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.



15 May 2013
St Angelina, save
us from ourselves!
14 May 2013
Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life

17 May 2013:
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.

17 May 2013:
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up

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