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Frank Furedi
None of them knows what we’re thinking
The political class is running on empty.
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Josie Appleton
It’s not enough to not be Blair
Too many independents are carrying on complaining from their election platforms
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Brendan O’Neill
Voting for me, me, me!
How did casting a ballot become an exercise in personal protest?
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| Thursday 5 May 2005 |
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Jennie Bristow
Unwrapping the ‘cotton wool’ kids
It would take more than school lessons in risk-taking to challenge the culture that is stifling our children.
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Brendan O’Neill
‘Reality capitalism’ is no substitute for real entrepreneurship
Alan Sugar's The Apprentice was not a new dawn for British business: it was a gameshow.
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| Friday 6 May 2005 |
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Mick Hume
An election that nobody won
It looked less like a vibrant contest than the night of the living dead.
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Philip Cunliffe
Downfall of humanity?
The response to a film about Hitler's final days suggests that some believe we're all to blame for the Holocaust.
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Daniel Ben-Ami
Postponing the ‘End of Poverty’
Economist Jeffrey Sachs' new book has an upbeat title, but the message inside is that underdevelopment is here to stay.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 6 May
The Pop Idol election: looking for entertainment over transformation.
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Nancy McDermott
More than a ‘momoir’
Judith Warner's new book Perfect Madness tries to untangle the mess of motherhood.
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Mick Hume
Don’t lose your bottle in the face of militant lactivism
spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 6 May
Liverpool: triumph of the mediocre.
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| Monday 9 May 2005 |
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Helene Guldberg
How can we halt the ‘march of unreason’?
Dick Taverne on why we need to defend the Enlightenment against dodgy science and 'dogmatic environmentalists'.
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Josie Appleton
Tough lessons for The Edukators
The characters in a new German film find that rearranging the furniture is no way to change the world.
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James Heartfield
Second World War: The Battle of the Books
James Heartfield surveys the struggle to define the Second World War.
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| Wednesday 11 May 2005 |
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Chris Bickerton
The end of the EU romance
Euro-elites can't decide whether enlargement is a new dawn, or if it's already exhausted.
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Jennie Bristow
What did the turnout tell us?
Messing with the voting process hasn't boosted turnout - but it has cheapened the meaning of the vote.
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Dolan Cummings
No ‘Scottish solution’
Politics in Scotland suffers from the same ailments as politics in England.
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| Thursday 12 May 2005 |
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Neil Davenport
Respect: ‘the fourth force in British politics’?
George Galloway's party owes its isolated successes to the disgruntlement of Muslim youth.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 12 May
TV ghouls, weeping fans - it must be relegation weekend.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 12 May
The Monastery: looking for the Big Brother in the sky.
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| Friday 13 May 2005 |
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Mick Hume
Seven misconceptions about that election
Everybody in British politics seems to have joined the SDP - Self-Delusion Party.
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Josie Appleton
Michael Jackson trial: nobody’s innocent
Outside the Californian court, we're witnessing a show trial of the most sordid aspects of contemporary culture.
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Brendan O’Neill
Immigration isn’t the issue
Among the political class, ‘the immigration issue’ has become code for their own fear and loathing of the white working class.
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Mercury and autism: a damaging delusion
A new book by a New York journalist falls for some contagious myths about the dangers of vaccines.
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Mick Hume
Since when was a hot summer something to be scared of?
spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Mercury and autism: a damaging delusion
A new book by a New York journalist falls for some contagious myths about the dangers of vaccines.
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| Tuesday 17 May 2005 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Guantanamo: truth goes down the toilet
Camp X-Ray is a disgrace - but so are unsubstantiated reports of Koran-abuse and other horror stories.
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James Heartfield
Abolish the DCMS
A cultural critic argues that arts funding should not be a matter for government.
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Phil Mullan
It’s not the economy, stupid
Why it wasn't Gordon Brown wot won it.
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| Wednesday 18 May 2005 |
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Josie Appleton
Uzbekistan: ‘War on terror’ bears bitter fruit
The crisis shows how America creates its own enemies.
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| Thursday 19 May 2005 |
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Jennie Bristow
Respect for what?
Tony Blair's 'culture of respect' is as antisocial as it is illiberal.
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Tiffany Jenkins
Memorial museums: cabinets of misery
There is an unhealthy obsession with showcasing the dark side of history.
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Chris Gilligan
Northern Ireland: a return to ‘extremes’?
The increased vote for Ian Paisley's DUP reflects a new mood of disengagement, not a resurgence of 'tribal loyalties'.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 19 May
United’s anti-Glazer drama queens need to take a bow.
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Craig O’Malley
The rise in crime
It is only relatively recently that crime became a political issue.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 19 May
Operation Muslim Vote: two blokes from Ilford take on the foreign secretary.
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| Friday 20 May 2005 |
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Kevin Yuill
Leslie Burke: life, death and law
Laws preventing doctors from withdrawing patients' food and drink are no way to reassert a culture of life.
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Graham Barnfield
How I unwittingly helped to start the Happy Slaps panic
A modern media tale: my 15 minutes of fame commenting on those 15-second videos.
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Mick Hume
The anti-Glazer camp’s allegiance to Cloud Cuckoo Land
spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
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| Monday 23 May 2005 |
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Chris Bickerton
The European ‘social model’ - non merci!
Measures such as the Working Time Directive make a virtue out of economic exhaustion.
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| Tuesday 24 May 2005 |
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Jennie Bristow
‘Every parent’s nightmare’
A little girl's claim that she was raped in her bedroom turned out to be a childish fabrication. Why did the police get it so wrong?
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Brendan O’Neill
George Galloway: an accidental hero
It says something about the degraded state of the global anti-war movement when the Swiss Toni of British politics can become its figurehead.
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David Wainwright
Workers behaving sadly
The UK government is mobilising an army of psychotherapists to get people off Incapacity Benefit. Will it work?
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| Wednesday 25 May 2005 |
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Helene Guldberg
The ethical case for animal research
A new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics makes a virtue out of 'muddying the water'.
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| Thursday 26 May 2005 |
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Josie Appleton
Is Britain a teenage ‘baby factory’?
Behind the national outcry over the young Derby mothers lies a concern about the 'wrong kinds' of people breeding.
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Josie Appleton
MRSA: the making of a ‘superbug’
How an everyday infection came to be seen as the biggest problem facing the health service.
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Sandy Starr
Why we need free speech online
In their crusade against 'hate speech', regulators want to subject all internet users to a system of parental controls.
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Dolan Cummings
TV UK, 26 May
Gordon Ramsay 'Galloways' another intake of dopey chefs.
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Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Fashion’s youth fixation
When it comes to style, teenagers rule OK.
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Duleep Allirajah
Offside, 26 May
Kick joyless health zealots out of football!
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| Friday 27 May 2005 |
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Mick Hume
We’re all Scousers now? Count me out
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London).
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Adam Burgess
Dialling up an old panic
What's behind the claims that it's riskier to use a mobile in the country than it is in the city?
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Rob Lyons
Nil points for Eurovision whiners
Who cares about 'political' voting bias?
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| Tuesday 31 May 2005 |
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Frank Furedi
The reawakening of European democracy
The French people's rejection of the EU Constitution represents a positive political event.
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Simon Singh, Colin Berry, Philip Ball and Tracey Brown
What is science for?
Four experts offer their thoughts, as part of spiked's Einstein survey.
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Bruno Waterfield
No means no
The EU is governance without government
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