Tue 11 Jun 2013
Let’s call a halt to the worship of whistleblowersby Brendan O’Neill
The increasingly irrational cult of the whistle-
blower is bad for politics and bad for journalism. We need some heretics to blow it apart.
Turning art into advertisingby Wendy Earle
The Art Everywhere plan to plaster art on UK billboards is more about public relations than public art.
The victims are taking over the law courtsby Luke Gittos
Reorientating criminal justice around the rights of alleged victims is destroying the rights of the defendant.
Mon 10 Jun 2013
Govephobia: the malady sweeping right-on Britainby Frank Furedi
Saying ‘I hate Michael Gove’ now works as a kind of password that grants one entry into the inner circle of polite society. Why has this happened?
Stop messing with
mothers-to-beby Ellie Lee
The mountain of scary ‘advice’ facing pregnant women is built on risk inflation and utterly junk science.
Losing faith in state schoolsby Neil Davenport
A new campaign for the abolition of UK faith schools ignores the real crisis in the state education sector.
Fri 7 Jun 2013
‘This manual is, frankly,
a disaster for children’by Helene Guldberg
Christopher Lane talks to spiked about the new edition of the bible of psychiatry – ‘a legal document facilitating the medication of millions’.
Emily Davison: an early ‘suicide terrorist’?by Ceri Dingle
One hundred years after she leapt in front of the king’s horse at Epsom, Davison death still divides opinion.
The beauty and
pathos of animeby Tom Slater
The re-release of two classic Japanese cartoons reminds us of a time when kids’ intellect was taken seriously.
No thank you for the matchday musicby Duleep Allirajah
The fashion for blaring out pop songs is killing the real source of stadium atmosphere: the noise of the fans.
We don’t want a Time Lord for our timesby David Bowden
Doctor Who fans are right to be anxious about the prospect of an oh-so-relevant gender- or race-swapping Doctor.
Thu 6 Jun 2013
Occupy: the marauding Starbucks of radical protestby Brendan O’Neill
Events in Turkey confirm that imposing the conformist Occupy brand on every global protest only helps to confuse and contain them.
The art of defending
press freedomby Mick Hume
In this video, Mick Hume takes us on a trip through the ‘After Leveson’ exhibition in London that he helped to curate.
Can we ‘save Muslims’
by banning the EDL?by Tom Bailey
Activists want to squish the EDL because they think its propaganda turns Muslims into Islamists. How patronising.
Wed 5 Jun 2013
Let's get real about
reversing the recessionby Phil Mullan
Britain has profound economic problems that can only be addressed through the wholesale renewal of production and infrastructure.
Invasion of the
tank-chasing lawyersby Tim Black
Lawyers leading the prosecution of British soldiers for abusing Afghans are unwittingly legitimising the war on terror.
In praise of
American Englishby Patrick West
Stop being sniffy about this language that uses words like diaper and can’t pronounce aluminium; it's the new Latin.