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| Monday 20 April 2009 |
Ballard: explorer of catastrophe
The author of Empire of the Sun and Crash was no dystopian prophet; he used disaster to reimagine the world.
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| Wednesday 11 February 2009 |
A return to wartime housing policies
What is Britain’s new vision for housing? Bribing council tenants to move into smaller properties to ‘make room’ for others.
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| Monday 26 January 2009 |
Dale Farm rebellion against eco-elitism
The gypsies in Basildon, England, are being evicted for sinning against that sacred cow: the English Countryside.
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| Monday 29 December 2008 |
The problem with Pinteresque politics
The same qualities that made Harold Pinter one of the great dramatists – free association, non-sequiturs, jarring juxtapositions, unreliable recollections – also made him a bad political activist.
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| Thursday 4 December 2008 |
Bringing the English Civil war to life
From the Diggers’ lunacy to Cromwell’s moral emptiness, the aim of TV drama The Devil’s Whore is never less than true.
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| Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
Capitalising on climate change
The emergence of a market in carbon emission rights shows that there is big money to be made from trading in hot air.
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| Tuesday 15 July 2008 |
Who demolished the housing industry?
The UK’s housebuilders are laying off thousands of staff while millions struggle to buy a home - all thanks to the anti-growth lobby.
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| Monday 7 July 2008 |
Food price rises: are biofuels to blame?
Forget crops-for-energy. The politics of protectionism and environmentalism are far bigger culprits in the global food crisis.
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| Tuesday 3 June 2008 |
Questioning the myth of food scarcity
World leaders are debating global hunger in Rome, yet French fishermen are giving away seafood stolen from supermarkets. What’s going on?
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| Wednesday 21 May 2008 |
Gordon Brown and the ghosts of innovation
James Heartfield reports from yesterday’s NESTA conference in London on the flailing PM’s vampiric relationship with the ‘innovation economy’.
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| Monday 7 April 2008 |
Gordon Brown’s Great Eco-Towns Con
The PM is proposing new zero-carbon towns to make up for his government’s kneejerk hostility to real housebuilding. It’s too little, too late.
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| Monday 28 January 2008 |
Suharto: made and broken by the West
The bloody dictator was not overthrown by Indonesian ‘people power’, as the obits claim; he was sacked by his Western backers when his face no longer fitted.
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| Friday 25 January 2008 |
The tyranny of
identity politics
The left’s cry ‘the personal is political!’ sounded radical once, but it has been used to legitimise state interference in our lives. If what we do in the bedroom is ‘political’, why shouldn’t the authorities regulate it?
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| Monday 7 January 2008 |
Green toffs vs the ‘shopping herd’
The panic about greedy mobs invading Oxford Street during the New Year sales is driven by elite disdain for consumerism and economic growth.
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| Thursday 27 December 2007 |
He’s a son of a bitch, but he’s their son of a bitch
Western observers loathe Time Man of the Year Vladimir Putin’s aggressive nationalism. But he is widely supported by the Russian people.
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| Friday 21 December 2007 |
New Labour’s out-of-control freakery
Yes, the UK government under Blair, and now Brown, has tried to micro-manage our daily lives. But it is Labour's outsourcing of political responsibility, rather than its control-freakery, that has killed politics.
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| Tuesday 18 December 2007 |
Eco-imperialism at
the Bali summit?
After Bali: Are Western powers offsetting their industrial growth by blackmailing poorer countries to foreswear development? One writer thinks so.
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| Monday 5 November 2007 |
Fifteen myths about the housing crisis
Government slothfulness, combined with the green lobby's snobbery towards the masses and their 'ugly houses', is the cause of Britain's shocking homes shortfall.
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| Monday 1 October 2007 |
The high price of the UK’s housing shortage
While commentators speculate about a house price crash, it's the failure to build new homes that should worry us.
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| Friday 21 September 2007 |
The sickness at the heart of New Labour
Always ill, disowned by their own partners and children, forever moaning about ‘workloads’… the new crop of diaries from Blairite politicians shows that the Blair regime had no idea where it was going or what it believed in.
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