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| Friday 14 August 2009 |
There’s more to Calvin than dourness and asceticism
We have forgotten that John Calvin was not only a severe Christian but also a key figure in the intellectual making of the modern world.
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| Monday 10 August 2009 |
Against booze bans
Giving police the arbitrary power to prevent people from drinking in public is an attack on everyday freedom.
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| Friday 31 July 2009 |
The depraved genius of John Calvin
‘Calvinist’ has become a dirty word, used to describe especially dour people. We have forgotten that John Calvin was not only a severe Christian but also a key figure in the intellectual making of the modern world.
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| Thursday 7 May 2009 |
New Labour plays its last card
Media-friendly, gimmicky and pointless: New Labour’s ID cards scheme provides a fitting testament to its time in office.
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| Wednesday 8 October 2008 |
How the anti-smokers are stubbing out liberty
A new report by YouGov and ASH confuses acquiescence to the smoking ban with support for official interference.
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| Tuesday 26 August 2008 |
Raising a glass to public spiritedness
Yesterday’s ‘provocation picnic’ in Hyde Park was a protest against officialdom’s bizarre bans on public boozing.
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| Friday 15 August 2008 |
Who’s afraid of corporate shills?
A new book on scary shills whitewashes the intellectual failures of the left, and shirks the task of putting forward a political alternative.
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| Friday 25 July 2008 |
Are corporate fakers taking over the world?
A new book on the evil of corporate spin ends up whitewashing the intellectual failures of the left, and propagating delusions about twenty-first century politics that are more misleading than anything put out by the shills.
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| Friday 16 May 2008 |
Rangers after UEFA: just don’t call us plucky
We’d far rather stay as the team that everyone hates rather than be patronised as spirited, have-a-go heroes.
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| Wednesday 5 March 2008 |
Why we need a Humanist Reformation
Our response to religious radicalism should not be to plea for moderation, but rather to inject some real radicalism into politics.
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| Friday 14 December 2007 |
Defending the Terror
Maximilien Robespierre was a fearless critic of tradition and incorruptibly committed to liberty: a million miles from today’s webcam jihadists.
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| Friday 30 November 2007 |
Remembering the
Reign of Terror
Robespierre is today depicted as a sexless fanatic who invented modern terrorism. His own words reveal he was a fearless critic of tradition and incorruptibly committed to liberty: a million miles from today’s webcam jihadists.
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| Thursday 25 October 2007 |
Count me out of atheism's creed
The desire to belong has made atheism into its own religion. But non-belief is no basis for a group identity.
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| Friday 12 October 2007 |
In defence of ‘radicalisation’
Critiques of Hizb ut-Tahrir focus less on its dodgy politics than on its intellectualism. But what’s wrong with a devotion to the debate of ideas?
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| Friday 21 September 2007 |
In defence of ‘radicalisation’
Contemporary critiques of Hizb ut-Tahrir focus less on its dodgy mishmash of politics and religion and more on its intense intellectualism. But what’s wrong with devoting oneself to the debate of ideas?
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| Friday 7 September 2007 |
Ossifying the Enlightenment
In his defence of reason, author Dan Hind prefers paternalistically to ‘enlighten’ the public rather than engage it in a battle of ideas.
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| Friday 24 August 2007 |
Ossifying the Enlightenment
Dan Hind’s defence of reason has much to recommend it. But his desire paternalistically to ‘enlighten’ the public rather than engage it in a battle of ideas belongs in the dark ages.
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| Thursday 19 July 2007 |
Intrusion, intrusion, intrusion
When education becomes about turning young people into obedient, healthy-eating, environmentally aware conformist-citizens, then it is not really education at all.
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| Friday 15 June 2007 |
Why we must stop deferring to authority
In the run-up to next week’s spiked debate on the ‘surveillance society’, speaker Dolan Cummings sorts fact from science-fiction.
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| Tuesday 15 May 2007 |
Stop the press: Scientologists are creepy!
Last night's 'exposé' of Scientology told us more about the narrow-mindedness of the BBC than the weirdness of L Ron Hubbard's lot.
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