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Thursday 4 December 2008 Ask Ethan

Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to give a goat to Africa?


Friday 14 November 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to buy a spiked t-shirt?
Our ethical columnist loses the plot over clothing that declares ‘Humanity is underrated’.

Friday 3 October 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to laugh at the financial crisis?
Our ethical columnist does a jig at the downfall of the anthropocentric, wealth-generating nightmare that is the world economy.

Monday 8 September 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to support Sarah Palin?
Why our ethical columnist has no time for the gun-toting, pro-life wannabe VP.

Thursday 28 August 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to use toilet paper?
Our ethical columnist explains the proper way to wipe away the damage we inflict on the planet.

Friday 22 August 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to take fat kids into care?
Why obese children are a heavy burden for Gaia to bear - and why they must be kept away from their resource-guzzling parents.

Friday 8 August 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to boycott Beijing?
Our ethical columnist discusses the Beijing Olympics

Friday 11 July 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to work in a leisure centre?


Friday 6 June 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to get old?


Friday 16 May 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to be an ethical lifestyle adviser?
Our ethical columnist draws the attention of his fellow advisers to some basic rules of the trade.

Friday 9 May 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to support the BNP?
Our ethical columnist explains why the far-right party are greener than most - it's their dreadful supporters that are the problem.

Friday 14 March 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to watch Delia Smith?


Friday 7 March 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to home-school my kids?
Regular schools are full of anthropocentric notions of human rationality and superiority - and feral children driven mad by processed foods.

Friday 22 February 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Are anti-malarial bed nets ethical?


Friday 15 February 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to celebrate Valentine’s Day?


Friday 8 February 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ever ethical to eat chicken?


Friday 1 February 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to pray for recession?
Never mind the unemployment, poverty and homelessness - an economic slowdown would be good for the planet.

Friday 18 January 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to boycott Japan?
Our ethical columnist on the 'uncivilised barbarity' of the world's leading whaling nation.

Friday 11 January 2008
Ethan Greenhart
Is it ethical to use low-energy bulbs?
Our ethical columnist on the benefits of sitting in the dark.

Thursday 20 December 2007
Ethan Greenhart
My ethical ‘heroes’ of 2007
Our ethical columnist nominates the ‘heroes’ of 2007

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Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.



15 May 2013
St Angelina, save
us from ourselves!

14 May 2013
Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life

17 May 2013:
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.


17 May 2013:
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up