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| Friday 14 March 2008 |
Who are the real dons of counterknowledge?
Blaming the demise of Enlightenment thinking on poo-inspecting nutritionists and one-eyed Islamists gets things the wrong way round.
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| Friday 29 February 2008 |
Who are the real dons of ‘counterknowledge’?
Damian Thompson’s fiery polemic against conspiracy theories has much to recommend it. But we can’t blame the demise of Enlightenment thinking on diet doctors and Islamists alone.
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| Monday 17 December 2007 |
Christmas is banned! Or is it?
Many of the 'PC gone mad!' stories about Christmas cards and cribs being outlawed are little more than rumours. So why do people believe them?
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| Thursday 22 November 2007 |
Is modern art a left-wing conspiracy?
Munira Mirza picks apart the idea that all of Britain's arts bodies are stacked with pinkos generating propaganda for liberal causes.
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| Thursday 10 May 2007 |
What now for the M-word?
Today, many slam the Blairites for enforcing divisive multiculturalism policies – but the critics’ solutions are no better.
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| Tuesday 10 April 2007 |
Stop pandering to Muslims
UK government initiatives to 'deal with' younger Muslims only leave them feeling more alienated from political life.
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| Thursday 5 April 2007 |
‘We’re creating a hierarchy of victimhood’
Neil Addison, author of a new book on religious hatred laws, says the laws are dividing communities and inflaming a ‘grievance culture’.
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| Wednesday 31 January 2007 |
Mediating the Muslim experience
The co-author of a report that caused a transatlantic stir over Britain’s ‘militant Muslim youth’ puts some of the explosive headlines in perspective.
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| Wednesday 29 November 2006 |
Creativity by numbers
The UK Creative Partnerships scheme for deprived schools seems more interested in exercising children’s bodies rather than their minds.
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| Thursday 23 November 2006 |
Diversity is divisive
A new manifesto looks set to kickstart a debate about how multiculturalism fosters tribalism and political victimhood.
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| Wednesday 25 October 2006 |
Let’s have a heated debate
Officialdom's calls for a 'gentle, nuanced' debate about race, veils and multiculturalism is just another way of policing public discussion.
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| Monday 25 September 2006 |
A thinly veiled political gesture
Ruth Kelly’s call for more women in hijabs on TV was a shallow attempt to show that the government is listening to ‘Muslim voices’.
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| Wednesday 30 August 2006 |
Getting to the root of ‘homegrown terrorism’
For all the talk of hotbeds of radicalism in Britain, these small, isolated sects are shaped by Western politics and self-loathing.
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| Tuesday 8 August 2006 |
Making Muslims into a race apart
In his TV show on British Muslims, Jon Snow was more anthropologist than journalist, trekking to an exotic land to meet apparently peculiar people.
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| Friday 7 July 2006 |
Why we should ignore Shehzad Tanweer’s pompous video
One way to deal with angry young Muslims is to stop taking their grandiose claims so seriously.
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| Friday 3 February 2006 |
The press should be free to ridicule Islam
On the European controversy about those Danish cartoons.
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| Wednesday 21 December 2005 |
Teaching adults about ‘scary Santa’
How did patronising advice for parents about the perils of Christmas end up on a government-funded website?
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| Wednesday 23 March 2005 |
Cultural myth-making at the Met
Police campaigns against 'forced marriages' and 'honour killings' are a pretext for intervening in immigrant communities.
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| Monday 24 January 2005 |
It’s not so grim up north
A new film about British Asians, Yasmin, is middle-class prejudice masquerading as social concern.
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| Thursday 19 August 2004 |
How ‘diversity’ breeds division
The more the authorities talk about racism, the more they racialise everyday life.
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