Mashing the ‘couch potato’ myth
The claim that playing computer games is making kids fat is thin on evidence.
Down with 21st century philistinism
Frank Furedi explains why his latest book calls for a new Culture War.
Anti-vaccination nation?
An injection of perspective into the debates about vaccines, past and present.
The strange death of social aspiration
Today's popular culture looks down on those who want to move up in the world.
You aren’t what you eat
Dr Gillian McKeith's diet, as seen on TV, is pure quackery.
Must-reads from the past week
Making the geopolitical personal
Anti-globalisation author Paul Kingsnorth seems more interested in self-discovery than radical politics.
Construction and transport: Victorian Britain lives on
Risk-aversion, short-termism and technophobia are holding back the UK’s roads, railways and buildings.
Postmodernity goes to war
Contemporary warfare is more about images and effects than bombs and battles.
A diet of hysteria
A new book suggests that the panic about obesity has been super-sized.
A brief history of bollocks
Francis Wheen talks to Brendan O'Neill about creationism, McDonald's and the new anti-Enlightenment.
