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| Tuesday 18 June 2013 |
Roll up, roll up – watch Nigella being strangled!
The Nigella Lawson ‘choking’ incident confirms that respectable observers are as good at being voyeuristic and moralistic as any tabloid hack.
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| Tuesday 11 June 2013 |
Let’s call a halt to the worship of whistleblowers
The increasingly irrational cult of the whistle-
blower is bad for politics and bad for journalism. We need some heretics to blow it apart.
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| Thursday 6 June 2013 |
Occupy: the marauding Starbucks of radical protest
Events in Turkey confirm that imposing the conformist Occupy brand on every global protest only helps to confuse and contain them.
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| Tuesday 28 May 2013 |
Woolwich: we have to talk about the bystanders
There’s no more avoiding it: we must discuss the chilling fact that people casually watched and photographed the aftermath of a brutal murder.
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| Thursday 23 May 2013 |
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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| Wednesday 15 May 2013 |
St Angelina, save
us from ourselves!
The beatification of Angelina Jolie for writing about her mastectomy confirms that celebrity culture has reached new and hysterical heights.
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| Thursday 9 May 2013 |
The phoney border
war over immigration
The fallout from the Queen’s Speech confirms that today neither right nor left views immigrants as real, breathing human beings.
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| Tuesday 30 April 2013 |
Iain Banks and the death of privacy
The press releases and Twittergrief over the Scottish author’s coming demise from cancer confirm that dying has become a public spectacle.
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| Wednesday 17 April 2013 |
Five things liberals love that Thatcher invented
From safe sex to incapacity benefit, today’s shrill Thatcher-bashers are actually continuing Mrs T’s worst work.
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| Monday 15 April 2013 |
Freedom can never be ‘granted’ to us
Brendan O’Neill’s recent speech imploring young libertarians to keep their eyes peeled for ‘phony freedoms’.
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| Thursday 11 April 2013 |
Gay marriage: a case study in conformism
Anyone who values diversity of thought and tolerance of dissent should find the sweeping consensus on gay marriage terrifying.
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| Tuesday 9 April 2013 |
The myth of Thatcherism
The idea that Britain’s problems are all the fault of the evil ‘Mrs T’ distorts history, and lets the left and Labour off the hook.
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| Tuesday 2 April 2013 |
Saving footie fans from their inner fascist
The increasingly unhinged moral crusade against racism in football is anti-prole loathing dressed up as high liberal principle.
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| Wednesday 27 March 2013 |
Eco-obedience: a lifetime of Lent with no pay-off
Comparing Pope Francis to Francis of Assisi is mad; unlike today’s miserable green Vatican, Assisi's self-denial had some spiritual purpose.
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| Tuesday 19 March 2013 |
Don’t blame Hacked Off for this crisis of liberty
Screeching at Hugh Grant is a displacement activity for intellectuals who can’t explain or reverse the historic corrosion of press freedom.
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| Wednesday 13 March 2013 |
The SWP: slain by cynical scandal-milkers
The socialists have joined the Catholic Church and the BBC as victims of a corrosive zeitgeist that views all institutions as nests of perverts.
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| Thursday 7 March 2013 |
Chavez’s cheerleaders: parasites on US impotence
Far from doing battle with US imperial hegemony, Hugo Chavez and his Western fans merely danced on the grave of America’s withered global clout.
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| Wednesday 20 February 2013 |
Piggybacking the Pistorius tragedy
Even before the body of Reeva Steenkamp had been cremated, various moral entrepreneurs were milking her killing for political ends.
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| Tuesday 12 February 2013 |
Is the pope Catholic?
The praise heaped on Benedict XVI for effectively destroying the idea of papal infallibility speaks to the flighty, narcissistic nature of our times.
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| Monday 11 February 2013 |
Saving Sun readers from themselves
Feminist campaigners against Page 3 are driven by the same misanthropy as every other censor in history.
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