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| Friday 24 May 2013 |
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Nathalie Rothschild
‘Swedish politics?
It’s effective but dull’
British leftists hail Sweden as a happy, welfarist utopia. In a week of riots in Stockholm, author Karin Svanborg-Sjövall says reality is different.
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David Bowden
Arrested Development:
a glorious comeback?
Yes, Arrested Development is daring and clever, but it has more traditional sitcom tropes than people realise.
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Duleep Allirajah
Palace, get over
your promophobia
Some Palace fans are quaking at the thought of promotion to the Premier League. They should grow a pair.
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Tom Slater
Mud: as sweet, and sickly, as barbecue chicken
Jeff Nichols’ highly lauded tale of adolescence in the Deep South is simple and effective, if saccharine fare.
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| Thursday 23 May 2013 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Woolwich: a knife crime, not an act of war
In overreacting to the frenzied stabbing in Woolwich yesterday, politicians and the police risk doing the killers’ dirty work for them.
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Mick Hume
Liberty comes out
against press liberty
The UK’s top civil liberties lobby has finally played its hand on the press – it favours statutory backed regulation.
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Luke Gittos
Keep the police out of our private lives
Maria Stubbings’ death was terrible, but a public inquiry would lead to even more hamfisted official intervention.
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| Wednesday 22 May 2013 |
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Sean Collins
Oklahoma: a swirling storm of anti-human prejudice
As people in Oklahoma heroically dealt with their tornado disaster, observers were busy pinning the blame for it on greedy mankind.
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Rob Lyons
A bug-eyed view of culinary pleasure
Being corralled into eating beetles and wasps to save the planet is enough to put you right off your food.
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Tim Black
Bozza, bonking and the public interest
Why should three men in wigs get to decide whether or not us plebs can read about Boris's sexual shenanigans?
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| Tuesday 21 May 2013 |
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Wendy Kaminer
No sex talk, please,
we’re students
The latest diktat from the Obama administration bizarrely treats students' sexual come-ons and flirting as sexual harassment.
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Wendy Earle
What is the point of teaching the arts?
ESSAY: Too many in the UK cultural sector seek to defend arts education in terms that have nothing to do with art.
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Patrick Hayes
One flew over the students’ nest
Why is the NUS so hellbent on depicting its members as mentally fragile creatures who can't cope with life?
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| Monday 20 May 2013 |
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Jon Holbrook
Gay marriage and the tyranny of sameness
Barrister Jon Holbrook says equality is no longer a progressive demand but rather is used to demolish differences between people.
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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.
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Rob Lyons
Is the EU now just a satire on itself?
The EU’s latest mad ban is revealing, suggesting it doesn’t even trust ordinary people to pour their own olive oil.
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| Friday 17 May 2013 |
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Neil Davenport
A nightmare vision of the welfarist trap
A reissue of Zoe Fairbairns’ dystopian novel Benefits is a timely reminder that left-wingers weren't always such big fans of welfarism.
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David Bowden
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up
In the battle of the quality American shows this spring, it’s Game of Thrones wearing the crown over Mad Men.
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Tom Slater
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.
The second instalment of JJ Abrams’ franchise reboot is more pointless popcorn than pop philosophy.
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| Thursday 16 May 2013 |
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Rob Lyons
The non-parochial case against the European Union
It isn’t only Little Englanders who should rage against the undemocratic EU – so should those who care about the continent and its peoples.
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