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Patrick Hayes
Animal experimentation: nothing to be ashamed of
The scientific and political defensiveness about vivisection gives the green light to misanthropic animal-rights activists.
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| Thursday 29 April 2010 |
Helene Guldberg
Monkeys mourning? Don’t make me laugh
A handful of chimp mothers carrying around their dead babies is not evidence of ‘human-like’ qualities.
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| Friday 9 April 2010 |
Barry Curtis
Hands off the Grand National
For millions of human beings, the National is fun, thrilling and escapist. So who cares what the horses ‘think’?
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| Wednesday 27 January 2010 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Just monkeying around with a camera
A BBC film ‘made’ by chimpanzees at Edinburgh Zoo only confirms how different humans and apes really are.
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| Friday 24 July 2009 |
Helene Guldberg
Restating the case for human uniqueness
Despite all the media hype about ‘clever chimps’ using tools and feeling emotions, in truth there is nothing remotely human about primates.
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| Tuesday 9 June 2009 |
Rob Lyons
The fishy message of The End of the Line
Instead of guilt-tripping Western consumers about overfishing, we should invest our energy in developing aquaculture.
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| Wednesday 29 April 2009 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Give it a rest: fish do not feel pain
Yet another research project claims to show that fish are capable of feeling pain. It’s as wrongheaded as all the rest.
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| Thursday 19 March 2009 |
Helene Guldberg
Chimps are like humans? Stop monkeying around
This week it was revealed that chimps use sticks to smash open beehives. But there’s nothing remotely ‘human-like’ in such behaviour.
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| Tuesday 20 January 2009 |
Stuart Derbyshire
A fishy campaign
PETA’s attempt to rebrand fish as ‘sea kittens’ takes anthropomorphism to an unfathomable new low.
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| Tuesday 26 August 2008 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Humans are more important than animals
When it comes to using animals in research, the only moral judgement should be: does it benefit humankind?
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| Monday 4 February 2008 |
Tim Black
Decimation of the polar bear: bearfaced lies?
A leading expert in forecasting tells spiked that research into the impact of climate change on polar bears has been shockingly shoddy.
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| Wednesday 8 August 2007 |
Brendan O’Neill
China’s river of life
The extinction of the Yangtze dolphin is a small price to pay for the transformation of the river into a source of work and energy for millions of people.
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| Tuesday 7 August 2007 |
Mick Hume
Stamp out human foot’n’mouth fever
…before it spreads from Whitehall and Fleet St.
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| Monday 11 June 2007 |
Brendan O’Neill
…the ivory trade?
…the ivory trade?
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| Friday 16 March 2007 |
Rob Lyons
The bear necessities of climate change politics
A photo of two polar bears seemingly stranded on an ice floe has come to symbolise man’s destruction of nature. But is it all that it seems?
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| Wednesday 3 January 2007 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘Dangerous dogs’: code for underclass Britain
Behind the headlines about crazed pitbulls there's a salacious contempt for certain sorts of people.
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| Friday 8 December 2006 |
Mick Hume
Animals count?
No they don't
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London) this week.
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| Thursday 7 December 2006 |
Josie Appleton
Beware of the boars
From Bavaria to South Africa, rampaging animals are bringing towns to a standstill. Why don't we just shoot them?
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| Tuesday 5 December 2006 |
Helen Birtwistle
A ‘dick on a string’?
Those calling for an extension of the Dangerous Dogs Act - 'the worst piece of legislation ever written' - seem most frightened of 'dangerous owners'.
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| Tuesday 28 November 2006 |
James Panton
Time to stop monkeying around
One supporter of vivisection says a BBC documentary revealed the benefits of animal research - and the need for tough arguments to defend it.
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