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Jason Walsh
The snobbery of the anti-Titanic crew
The only thing more absurd than the recent outbreak of Titanic mania is the anti-Titanic tut-tutting.
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| Monday 23 January 2012 |
Dominic Standish
Riding the waves of a cruise crash
Dominic Standish reports from Italy on how anti-ship agitators are milking the Concordia tragedy.
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| Tuesday 17 January 2012 |
Tim Black
Costa Concordia: a vessel for anti-consumerist angst
Some observers are tastelessly leaping on board the sunken ship to pontificate about the decadence and folly of big, brassy cruise-liners.
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| Thursday 26 May 2011 |
Colin McInnes
How hyper-mobility can change the world
By investing in faster and cheaper transportation, we can truly realise the dream of a global village.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Defend green jobs! Smash ungreen jobs!
Environmentalists are defending jobs at the ‘good’ Vestas wind-turbine factory while ignoring the sacking of workers at ‘evil’ Thomas Cook.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Rob Lyons
We need planes, trains and automobiles
Justifying high-speed rail as a way of stopping people from flying is a perverse anti-travel argument.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Tim Black
Are British stag nights really wrecking Riga?
The annual silly-season attack on British stags in Latvia is, once again, based on snobbery rather than facts.
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| Thursday 6 August 2009 |
Butcher and Smith
Who’d go on a government-funded gap year?
Travel can be fun and inspiring, just so long as you avoid the micro-managed, skills-obsessed jaunts provided by New Labour.
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| Wednesday 27 May 2009 |
Peter Smith
Nuns on the rum
The arrest of 17 British men dressed as nuns in Crete should remind us how unmenacing laddish tourists really are.
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| Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
Alex Hochuli
Why I’m standing up for the right to fly
The co-founder of Modern Movement explains why they’re holding a pro-flight demo in London on Thursday.
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| Monday 26 January 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘A nasty little piece of smug class warfare’
A Green holiday firm’s promise of ‘chav-free holidays’ for the middle classes exposes the snobbery that underpins radical eco-tourism.
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| Thursday 15 January 2009 |
Rob Lyons
India’s ‘festival of
first-time fliers’
As British eco-activists fly into a fury over the Third Runway, millions of Indians are exploring the skies on cheap flights.
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| Tuesday 9 December 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Class hatred at Stansted Airport
Posh Plane Stupid insists that it is not picking on poor people. So why is it so madly obsessed with cheap flights?
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| Monday 22 September 2008 |
Peter Smith
A welcome break from
the doom-and-gloom
Despite the demise of holiday firm XL and money troubles at Alitalia, the desire to travel remains as strong as ever.
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| Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
Peter Smith
Sun, sea, sand and snobbery
Ignore the shrill headlines about badly-behaved British tourists: the overwhelming majority have a great time overseas.
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| Tuesday 27 May 2008 |
Henry Williams
A Kamikaze attack on manmade flight
A new exhibition charts the history of aviation from the suicidal Pioneer Age to the bold Jet Age to the drab ‘Eco Age’.
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| Thursday 3 April 2008 |
Sadhvi Sharma
The party’s over in India’s capital of fun
Sadhvi Sharma, a long-time vistor to Goa, reports on how the seaside resort has been remade as a mini police-state following the tragic murder of a British teenager.
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| Thursday 23 August 2007 |
Peter Smith
Ecotourism: holier-than-thou holidays
Ecotourist jaunts might make green-leaning holidaymakers feel warm and moist, but they do little to help Third World communities. In fact, ecotourism is a trap for the world’s poor.
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| Thursday 16 August 2007 |
James Panton
Let us celebrate the freedom of flight
There’s more to manmade flight than the spewing of CO2 molecules: flying is liberating and enlightening, and that’s why millions of us do it.
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| Thursday 22 March 2007 |
Peter Smith
Air travel: the skies, the limits
If poor people have less opportunity to fly, then surely the answer is to tackle poverty rather than to limit other people's travel.
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