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Brendan O’Neill
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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| Wednesday 8 May 2013 |
Mick Hume
They’re all Mr Less-
Than-Ten-Per-Cent
The remarkable fact that no UK party won even 30 per cent of the votes cast last week marks a new low in the disintegration of the old order.
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| Tuesday 7 May 2013 |
Tim Black
Why the political class is so scared of Farage
In the electoral successes of UKIP, Britain’s political elite glimpses its own creeping irrelevance and out-of-touchness.
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| Tuesday 7 May 2013 |
James Heartfield
UKIP’s rise: a
shortlived rebellion
The success of anti-EU parties speaks to the decline of the old political order rather than to the rise of a new one.
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| Thursday 2 May 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
Muslims vs EDL: a car crash of civilisations
Neither the English Defence League nor Islamist extremists could organise a fry-up in a chippie. So why the hysteria?
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| Wednesday 1 May 2013 |
Rosamund Cuckston
Sacked for having the wrong beliefs
The dismissal of a bus driver who supports the BNP has exposed how fragile freedom of association is today.
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| Tuesday 30 April 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
UKIP: monster raving loonies?
The political and media classes' pathologisation of the UK Independence Party exposes their own cowardice.
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| Monday 29 April 2013 |
Denis Joe
Time to end UK art’s dependency culture
State funding of the arts does not help creativity; it suffocates it with policymaking imperatives.
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| Wednesday 17 April 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
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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| Tuesday 9 April 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
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 9 April 2013 |
Tim Black
How iron was the Iron Lady?
Both right-wing eulogisers and left-wing partiers are wrong: Thatcher was neither ideological firebrand nor destroyer of modern Britain.
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| Tuesday 9 April 2013 |
Rob Lyons
One cheer for Labour’s new welfare policy
Basing welfare entitlements on an individual's work history is a good idea. Let's explore it.
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| Tuesday 9 April 2013 |
Baris Tufekci
Defending democracy from the demos
The political classes’ fear of right-wing populism is really a fear of volatile voters.
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| Monday 8 April 2013 |
Tim Black
Asking a teenager to do an adult’s job
The outrage over sweary teen-twitterer Paris Jones tells us far more about the crisis of adulthood than uncouth yoof.
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| Wednesday 27 March 2013 |
Rob Lyons
This barking at politicians is getting boring
Eddie Mair’s humiliation of London mayor Boris Johnson was a triumph for anti-political cynicism, not journalism.
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| Thursday 21 March 2013 |
Tim Black
The teenage futility of bashing baby boomers
The pseudo-radical vogue for screeching at comfortably off pensioners will not improve the lives of the young. It will only divide society.
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| Thursday 14 March 2013 |
Tom Bailey
‘Zionist’: the worst
insult in the world
Among the Western chattering classes, ‘the Zionist’ has replaced 'the Jew' as the cause of the world's ills.
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| Wednesday 13 March 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
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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| Tuesday 12 March 2013 |
Tim Black
Huhne v Pryce: the politics of dirty linen
This sordid affair exposes how insular, self-important and allergic to the ideal of privacy the modern political class is.
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| Wednesday 6 March 2013 |
Mick Hume
Nobody wins election
that never was!
After the Eastleigh by-election, the question is not just who might win the next British General Election, but what is politics for anymore?
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