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| Wednesday 16 January 2013 |
Loyalists: the pariahs of the peace process
The rioting over the Union flag illuminates the tragedy of modern loyalism: these people are loyal to a world that no longer exists.
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| Thursday 10 January 2013 |
The cult of welfarism has become suffocating
Far from there being a war over welfare, everyone now accepts that people can't survive without the state.
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| Friday 21 December 2012 |
In 2013, can we call off the Culture Wars?
This year, there was a decisive shift in the Culture Wars in favour of the ‘illiberal liberals’. The wrong side is winning, in the wrong war.
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| Wednesday 19 December 2012 |
‘I am not a contrarian. I find contrarians annoying’
spiked editor Brendan O’Neill answers readers’ questions on everything from liberty and progress to drunken contrarianism and gay marriage.
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| Monday 17 December 2012 |
After Connecticut: the myth of America’s ‘gun culture’
The obsession with the guns used in school shootings overlooks the cultural factors behind these modern outbursts of nihilistic violence.
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| Thursday 13 December 2012 |
Pat Finucane wasn't the only victim of state terror
All those observers ‘shocked’ to discover that Britain colluded with loyalist death squads: where have you been for the past 30 years?
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| Wednesday 12 December 2012 |
The iron fist in the velvet glove of gay marriage
Under the radical cover of being pro-gay, the state is expanding its sovereignty over all of our private lives and most intimate relationships.
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| Friday 30 November 2012 |
spiked: proud to be unlicensed
Lord Justice Leveson has proposed a kitemark system to distinguish which press and online outlets are 'trustworthy'. spiked doesn't want it.
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| Wednesday 28 November 2012 |
Who is treating Palestinians like animals?
Palestinian solidarity campaigns sound increasingly similar to bleeding-heart animal-rights campaigns.
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| Tuesday 27 November 2012 |
It’s not just UKIP parents who are under suspicion
The Rotherham fostering controversy isn’t a mad one-off - it’s the logical conclusion to the intensification of state meddling in parents’ lives.
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| Wednesday 21 November 2012 |
The burdens that Israel should not have to bear
ESSAY: Between being treated as a conduit for Western colonial guilt and as a beacon of Western Enlightenment, Israel is being slowly strangled.
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| Tuesday 20 November 2012 |
Why should we take part in these political charades?
Everyone says the low turnout in the PCC elections points to a crisis of democracy. But these elections weren’t democratic to begin with.
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| Monday 12 November 2012 |
‘Serious journalists’ are the most tabloidesque of all
The Newsnight/paedophile fiasco has utterly exploded the idea that modern British journalism can be divided into Good and Bad camps.
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| Thursday 1 November 2012 |
We need a Full Stop
to this scaremongering
The NSPCC and others have leapt upon the Savile scandal to promote their claims that child abuse is rife in modern Britain. But it isn’t.
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| Tuesday 30 October 2012 |
Egalité without liberté? Non, non, non!
A new army of equality quangos and experts promises to make us all equal – but at the expense of our freedoms and desire to be rich.
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| Thursday 25 October 2012 |
A disaster that science brought upon itself
The jailing of scientists for failing to predict an earthquake is the sad conclusion to the scientific community’s depiction of itself as soothsayer.
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| Wednesday 24 October 2012 |
An educated,
erudite lynch mob
The hysteria over Savile reminds us that it isn’t tabloids that drive paedophile panics - it’s the great and the good.
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| Thursday 18 October 2012 |
Israel vs Iran: clash of the pariah states
With Iran demonised by Western leaders and Israel demonised by Western liberals, both countries have become unpredictable beasts.
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| Monday 15 October 2012 |
Savile: the mad hunt for a conspiracy of witches
With its contagion of accusation and counter-accusation, the Savile scandal has exposed the Salem-style irrationalism of the modern elite.
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| Thursday 11 October 2012 |
Venezuela: the left’s heart in a heartless world
The Western left’s bizarre love affair with the Bonapartist Hugo Chavez speaks volumes about its intellectual disarray and desperation.
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