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Brendan O’Neill
Out of Africa
Big Brother Africa is better than Big Brother Britain only because it's the first series rather than the fourth.
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Helene Guldberg
Challenging the precautionary principle
How has society come to be governed by the maxim 'better safe than sorry'?
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Josie Appleton
Seize the day, save the vermin
What made foxhunting into a 'totemic' issue for the Labour backbenches?
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| Thursday 3 July 2003 |
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Jennie Bristow
A marriage that dare not speak its name
The UK government's 'Civil Partnership' scheme for gay couples makes an institution of inequality.
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Daniel Ben-Ami
Recipe for austerity
George Monbiot's The Age of Consent is a caveman's manifesto.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 3 July
How does Rude-eski's Wimbledon performance compare to the great tirades of history?
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Martyn Perks
‘A mob for no reason’
Email gangs come together - and go away again.
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Carlton Brick
Beckham-mournia
Why the boy David's transfer to Real Madrid got Britain grieving.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 3 July
It is obvious that Alastair Campbell is behind the bomb plot in 24.
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| Friday 4 July 2003 |
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Patrick West
Don’t paint the town red
Confessions of a late-night graffiti-remover.
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| Tuesday 8 July 2003 |
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Naseem Khan
Change the whole agenda
'The infrastructure of the arts is invisibly conditioned - there are many "keep out" signs. Arts organisations have to point out this discrimination.'
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| Wednesday 9 July 2003 |
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Jon Holbrook
Can a company kill?
The UK government's proposed new offence of 'corporate killing' looks like a return to medieval law.
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Phil Mullan
Ageism is not the problem
Britain needs proper employment opportunities for older people, not a government consultation on 'age discrimination'.
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Jennie Bristow
Knocking equal opportunities
People think women are equal now - so why won't feminists believe them?
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Mick Hume
Health chiefs use kids as sticks to beat us
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London), on the UK government's war on fatty food and fags.
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Josie Appleton
The body piercing project
Why some people are staking their Being on their bellybutton ring.
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Jason Burton
Open source adhocracy
When it comes to software development, the cathedral could be a better model than the bazaar.
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| Thursday 10 July 2003 |
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Helene Guldberg
Little girl lost (not)
A child abduction that wasn’t sparked an alert system that failed. How is this a 'brilliant success'?
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 10 July
Michael Wood's search for Shakespeare forgets that the bard went beyond his own biography.
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Patrick West
Light out of Darkness
Rock bands, empires and 'stupid Americans'.
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Dominic Standish
When il capo met kapo
Dominic Standish reports from Italy on why Europe failed to get Silvio Berlusconi's 'ironic joke'.
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| Friday 11 July 2003 |
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Josie Appleton
Trials of the ‘war on terror’
What's driving the British reaction against Guantanamo Bay?
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Mick Hume
It’s the authority crisis, stupid
And it's doing more damage than WMD.
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Austin Williams
Transport and its discontents
Critics of the UK government’s roads policy say nothing radical, new...or even critical.
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| Monday 14 July 2003 |
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Rob Lyons
Hot air
The UK government's commitment to wind power is an expensive gesture, at odds with the nation's needs.
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Mick Hume
Addiction addicts
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London).
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| Tuesday 15 July 2003 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Iraq and the uranium: a fake debate
In the latest clash over the evidence, both sides are passing the buck.
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Dolan Cummings
Badging the British
The UK government hopes ID cards will give the nation an identity.
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Ellie Lee
Whatever happened to the university?
Higher education has come to mean everything - except intellectual endeavour.
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James Panton
Stressing out students
Students are encouraged to experience university challenges as traumas.
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Sandy Starr
Google hogged by blogs
By linking to insubstantial and random content, personal websites are strangling search engines.
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| Friday 18 July 2003 |
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 18 July
The Money Programme couldn't decide whether people are sick of McDonald's, or addicted to it.
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| Wednesday 23 July 2003 |
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Julian Spalding
They shock too much
Modern art requires the audience's reaction, but can't abide its judgement.
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Jon Holbrook
The law and the 'one in four'
A barrister takes issue with the UK government's 'shock-and-awe' approach to domestic violence statistics.
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Barbara Hewson
Treating women like children
The proposed changes to the law on domestic violence are degrading.
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| Thursday 24 July 2003 |
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Jennie Bristow
Give us a break
Summertime - and the pleasure police come out to play.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 24 July
It is an achievement that a 'drama' of Philip Larkin's life is even remotely watchable.
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Brendan O’Neill
Cross-border terrorism: a mess made by the West
How 'humanitarian intervention' made a world in which stateless terror could flourish.
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Neil Davenport
Dead poets' society
Why Philip Larkin's private misdemeanours have become a public obsession.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 24 July
Twenty20 is cricket for people who don't like cricket.
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Patrick West
Surface treatment
The NHS is treating 'low self-esteem' with tummy tucks.
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Suzanne Miller
Summer of the shark?
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water...it is.
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| Friday 25 July 2003 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Liberation by snapshot?
The killing of Uday and Qusay, and the photos to prove it, are the latest gestures in the coalition’s war of symbols.
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| Tuesday 29 July 2003 |
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Frank Furedi
The children who won’t grow up
Peter Pan-demonium, kidults, boomerang kids.... A sociologist examines the phenomenon of lost boys and girls hanging out on the edge of adulthood.
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Mick Hume
Politics isn't brutal enough
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London), on the fallout from the David Kelly affair.
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Brendan O’Neill
Unfree Liberia
Western intervention is inflaming tensions in the civil war.
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Mick Hume
Why sunburn is not a burning issue
spiked editor Mick Hume shines some light on the seasonal skin cancer scare, in The Times (London).
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Josie Appleton
Ritual allegiance
Giving British citizenship more trappings won't increase its value.
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Jon Holbrook
'Duties of care' to the careless and criminal
The expansion of negligence law throws personal responsibility out of the window.
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Raymond Perry
Law begets law
The Human Rights Act is encouraging a culture of litigation. A solicitor writes.
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Alan Miller
Capturing the Friedmans
One US documentary shows why it is imperative to pursue the truth - even in the ugliest situations.
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| Wednesday 30 July 2003 |
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Rob Lyons
Barbecue panic - transcript from the Today programme
A transcript from a radio item about the dangers of barbecues.
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| Thursday 31 July 2003 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Trafficking in dubious numbers
UNICEF's campaign against 'child traffic' is based on questionable evidence and a barely concealed contempt for people in the third world.
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Jon Holbrook
Keep the courts out of family life
Regardless of the merits of the MMR jab, the ruling that two children must receive it against their mothers' wishes represents a worrying expansion of the law.
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Jennie Bristow
A curse on all his houses
John Prescott's 'affordable housing' project should create decent homes where people want to live, rather than nasty soulless boxes that don’t disturb the weeds.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 31 July
Nasser Hussain is seen as an outdated autocrat - but he put some steel back into English cricket.
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Josie Appleton
Jabs through the backdoor
Parents should be won around to MMR by medical argument, not legal injunction.
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Patrick West
Brits behaving nicely
Tourists to Dublin have stopped vomiting into the Liffey.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 31 July
Faultlines documents not so much the rise of religion as the demise of politics.
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Martyn Perks
Blog-standard politics
Could blogging MPs reinvigorate the electorate?
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Priscilla Alderson
Making kids 'special'
'Special needs' is not a medical reality, but an administrative device that harms children, argues a professor of childhood studies.
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