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| Wednesday 15 May 2013 |
Syria and the
myths of WMD
The West’s conventional firepower, used against regimes with WMD, is far more destructive than any WMD.
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| Thursday 9 May 2013 |
Defending the right to mock JM Keynes
Why on earth is historian Niall Ferguson being dragged over the coals for having a pop at a dead economist?
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| Tuesday 7 May 2013 |
Why the political class is so scared of Farage
In the electoral successes of UKIP, Britain’s political elite glimpses its own creeping irrelevance and out-of-touchness.
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| Wednesday 1 May 2013 |
The weird obsession with chemical weapons
If Assad really has killed 15 people with sarin, why is that worse than his slaughter of thousands of others with bullets and bombs?
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| Friday 26 April 2013 |
Biblical miserabilism disguised as science
No wonder Andrew Simms and other greens are always fantasising about Earth’s end: they can't stand Earth’s inhabitants.
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| Monday 22 April 2013 |
Beware the broadband bobbies
The police may have dropped an investigation into Paris Brown, but the clampdown on free speech online continues.
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| Friday 19 April 2013 |
Biblical miserabilism disguised as science
No wonder Andrew Simms and other greens are always fantasising about Earth's end: they can't stand Earth's inhabitants.
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| Thursday 18 April 2013 |
An inspiring scientist and a nutty professor
Cheers for a test-tube pioneer who improved our lives, but jeers for the druggy professor who would rule our lives.
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| Monday 15 April 2013 |
So it’s okay for the Beeb to be ‘unethical’?
If a tabloid used students as a human shield to get a story, there’d be outrage. But by saying ‘public interest!’ the BBC can get away with it.
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| Tuesday 9 April 2013 |
How iron was the Iron Lady?
Both right-wing eulogisers and left-wing partiers are wrong: Thatcher was neither ideological firebrand nor destroyer of modern Britain.
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| Monday 8 April 2013 |
Asking a teenager to do an adult’s job
The outrage over sweary teen-twitterer Paris Jones tells us far more about the crisis of adulthood than uncouth yoof.
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| Thursday 4 April 2013 |
North Korea: a tale of two superpowers
The latest round of instability on the Korean peninsula reveals a great deal about American and Chinese influence today.
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| Thursday 28 March 2013 |
From class politics to classy products
Once, people defined themselves by what they did and believed; now, as Harry Wallop’s entertaining Consumed reveals, we are what we buy.
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| Monday 25 March 2013 |
Boris Berezovsky and the Evil Empire nostalgists
In the eyes of Westerners who crave some of those old Cold War certainties, every death of a Russian oligarch is proof of Putin’s malfeasance.
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| Thursday 21 March 2013 |
The teenage futility of bashing baby boomers
The pseudo-radical vogue for screeching at comfortably off pensioners will not improve the lives of the young. It will only divide society.
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| Friday 15 March 2013 |
From class politics to classy products
Once, people defined themselves by what they did and believed; now, as Harry Wallop’s entertaining Consumed reveals, we are what we buy.
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| Tuesday 12 March 2013 |
Huhne v Pryce: the politics of dirty linen
This sordid affair exposes how insular, self-important and allergic to the ideal of privacy the modern political class is.
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| Friday 1 March 2013 |
‘The world itself is a bad dream’
On the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, the cool cynicism and snobbery of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has gone mainstream.
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| Tuesday 26 February 2013 |
The cardinal and the Lib Dem: death by sex scandal
The moral authority of the child abuse panic is now being used against individuals accused of far lesser, even non-criminal misdemeanours.
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| Monday 25 February 2013 |
Why Gove annoys the chattering classes
Education secretary Michael Gove upsets the liberal set because he is prepared to lead rather than conform.
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