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articles by Patrick Hayes
Friday 23 October 2009
‘Would the BBC give a platform to Hitler?’
Patrick Hayes joined the rabble of censors protesting outside BBC Television Centre in the run-up to Question Time.

Friday 18 September 2009
Stop this rumble in ‘the jungle’
The French should demolish the migrant slum in Calais — but only after Europe’s inhumane immigration policies have been bulldozed.

Monday 7 September 2009
The myth of Afghan terrorism
Contrary to Gordon Brown’s claims, no Afghan has been involved in the terror attacks of the past 10 years.

Thursday 3 September 2009
Big trouble in ‘Little Cairo’
The UK government’s neverending, evidence-lite assault on smokers threatens to bankrupt London’s shisha bars.

Wednesday 5 August 2009
Sorry, but Fairtrade is a political issue
BBC newsreader George Alagiah is shocked that his bosses think Fairtrade is ‘somehow controversial’. It is.

Wednesday 22 July 2009
Taking sides in the Vestas dispute
Patrick Hayes reports from the Vestas factory occupation on the Isle of Wight where greens and workers made uncomfortable bedfellows.

Thursday 16 July 2009
I Have A Dream: no more flights!
Patrick Hayes joined a rabble of radical greens in London demanding a 55mph speed limit and an end to stag nights.

Tuesday 16 June 2009
Keep border police out of universities
Patrick Hayes talks to the students occupying the director's office at SOAS in protest against the arrest of nine university cleaners.

Monday 27 April 2009
Bamboo Joint: raided by the junk food cops
Patrick Hayes reports from the first fast-food outlet in Britain to be shut down because it is too close to a school.

Monday 6 April 2009
‘I never thought I would be a squatter’
Patrick Hayes reports from Visteon in Enfield, where sacked workers launched a surprise occupation of their factory.

Monday 3 December 2007
A backpacker's guide to eco-death
Into the Wild, Sean Penn's film about the anti-materialist Christopher McCandless, reminds us why being 'one with nature’ is no picnic.

Sunday 8 October 2006
‘It is like things are now, but worse’
Alfonso Cuarón’s apocalyptic drama Children of Men may be set in 2027, but it is self-consciously 'about today'.

 


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19 November 2009
Too many people? No, too many Malthusians
17 November 2009
Election: up for grabs, but nothing to play for
There’s more to human character than sharing toys

13 November 2009:
Erasing David and the fight for privacy rights


20 November 2009:
Never mind the guest presenters