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| Tuesday 15 September 2009 |
Are we all autistic now?
Lumping Mozart and Einstein in with those who have severe socialisation problems is no help to sufferers or science.
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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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| Monday 27 October 2008 |
‘One at a Time’: an attack on choice
The HFEA’s campaign to reduce multiple births in IVF treatment reveals its elitist disdain for prospective parents.
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| Monday 31 March 2008 |
Should we stamp out ‘designer deafness’?
Sandy Starr of the Progress Educational Trust asks why the UK government is legislating against something as rare as pro-deaf embryo selection.
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| Thursday 26 October 2006 |
The inspirational debate
Concluding views on 'What inspired you?', the spiked/Pfizer survey of key scientists ranging from 19- to 93-year-olds and from new talents to Nobel laureates.
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| Tuesday 29 August 2006 |
What inspired you?
An overview of the new spiked/Pfizer survey of scientists aged 19 to 93, ranging from new talent to Nobel laureates, on what made them take up science.
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| Thursday 1 June 2006 |
The EC’s message to the people of Europe: make do and mend
The latest European campaign on climate change is driven by killjoy arguments for rationing and restraint.
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| Sunday 30 April 2006 |
Exercise in futility
Getting fit the Department of Health way turns out to be a full-time occupation.
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| Thursday 20 April 2006 |
The Time Lord of Love
spiked-TV: The new Doctor Who's emotional incontinence is light years away from the chaste original.
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| Thursday 19 January 2006 |
Who cares about Celeb BB? You decide
spiked-TV: Has-beens, hissy fits and a competition of victimhoods make Celebrity Big Brother grimly compelling.
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| Friday 9 December 2005 |
Pinter: good playwright, bad politician
Harold Pinter's Nobel speech highlighted the chasm between his literary insights and childish worldview.
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| Tuesday 18 October 2005 |
When it comes to politics, can we have a Pinteresque silence?
The same qualities that make Harold Pinter a great dramatist also make him a bad activist.
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| Friday 14 October 2005 |
Getting in a flap over bird flu
We need to put the disease in perspective.
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| Friday 30 September 2005 |
Anti-science lessons
UK schools’ new dumbed-down, issues-led science curriculum will inculcate students with suspicion about scientific endeavour.
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| Friday 23 September 2005 |
The virtual library
How the publishing industry is stalling Google’s attempt to put all the books in the world on the web.
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| Friday 16 September 2005 |
Making public debate history
Why should the authorities have the right to shut up both Make Poverty History and the BNP?
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| Tuesday 6 September 2005 |
Indecent proposals
It's not just perverts who should be worried about the government's proposed ban on violent pornography.
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| Thursday 18 August 2005 |
The marks of human progress
So what if astronauts can glimpse signs of man’s impact on Earth?
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| Friday 22 July 2005 |
Do mobile phones invade our privacy?
A report on the live spiked-debate.
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| Monday 18 July 2005 |
Mobile politics
Do mobile phones invade our privacy? British MPs give their views.
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