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Monday 20 May 2013	British politics


Tim Black Does tax avoidance really ‘do evil’? The political class’s war on alleged ‘tax dodgers’ like Google and Starbucks is a big fat displacement activity.

Thursday 9 May 2013
Brendan O’Neill The phoney border war over immigration The fallout from the Queen’s Speech confirms that today neither right nor left views immigrants as real, breathing human beings.

Wednesday 8 May 2013
Mick Hume They’re all Mr Less- Than-Ten-Per-Cent The remarkable fact that no UK party won even 30 per cent of the votes cast last week marks a new low in the disintegration of the old order.

Tuesday 7 May 2013
Tim Black 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.

Tuesday 7 May 2013
James Heartfield UKIP’s rise: a shortlived rebellion The success of anti-EU parties speaks to the decline of the old political order rather than to the rise of a new one.

Thursday 2 May 2013
Patrick Hayes Muslims vs EDL: a car crash of civilisations Neither the English Defence League nor Islamist extremists could organise a fry-up in a chippie. So why the hysteria?

Wednesday 1 May 2013
Rosamund Cuckston Sacked for having the wrong beliefs The dismissal of a bus driver who supports the BNP has exposed how fragile freedom of association is today.

Tuesday 30 April 2013
Patrick Hayes UKIP: monster raving loonies? The political and media classes' pathologisation of the UK Independence Party exposes their own cowardice.

Monday 29 April 2013
Denis Joe Time to end UK art’s dependency culture State funding of the arts does not help creativity; it suffocates it with policymaking imperatives.

Wednesday 17 April 2013
Brendan O’Neill Five things liberals love that Thatcher invented From safe sex to incapacity benefit, today’s shrill Thatcher-bashers are actually continuing Mrs T’s worst work.

Tuesday 9 April 2013
Brendan O’Neill The myth of Thatcherism The idea that Britain’s problems are all the fault of the evil ‘Mrs T’ distorts history, and lets the left and Labour off the hook.

Tuesday 9 April 2013
Tim Black 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.

Tuesday 9 April 2013
Rob Lyons One cheer for Labour’s new welfare policy Basing welfare entitlements on an individual's work history is a good idea. Let's explore it.

Tuesday 9 April 2013
Baris Tufekci Defending democracy from the demos The political classes’ fear of right-wing populism is really a fear of volatile voters.

Monday 8 April 2013
Tim Black 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.

Wednesday 27 March 2013
Rob Lyons This barking at politicians is getting boring Eddie Mair’s humiliation of London mayor Boris Johnson was a triumph for anti-political cynicism, not journalism.

Thursday 21 March 2013
Tim Black 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.

Thursday 14 March 2013
Tom Bailey ‘Zionist’: the worst insult in the world Among the Western chattering classes, ‘the Zionist’ has replaced 'the Jew' as the cause of the world's ills.

Wednesday 13 March 2013
Brendan O’Neill The SWP: slain by cynical scandal-milkers The socialists have joined the Catholic Church and the BBC as victims of a corrosive zeitgeist that views all institutions as nests of perverts.

Tuesday 12 March 2013
Tim Black 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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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.


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