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| Sean Collins
The trouble with ‘anti-capitalism’
ELECTION ESSAY: contemporary so-called ‘anti-capitalism’ – which is underpinned by a powerful misanthropy – is the main barrier to progress today.
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| Wednesday 5 May 2010 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Public health and the obsession with behaviour
ESSAY: Recent thinking on health policy has been driven by two myths: that bad health is caused by bad habits, and that government can promote good health by changing our behaviour.
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| Monday 3 May 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Unfettered freedom: the basis of the Good Society
ESSAY: Both the political elite and its critics believe there is a conflict between rights and responsibilities. They could not be more wrong.
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| Wednesday 28 April 2010 |
Jennie Bristow
Turning parents into ‘partners of the state’
ELECTION ESSAY: Thanks to New Labour, the family is no longer seen as a haven in a heartless world, but as a site of all sorts of abuse.
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| Wednesday 21 April 2010 |
James Panton
What’s so great about the welfare state?
ESSAY: The origins of state welfare were far from progressive, and in its new therapeutic form it is actually a barrier to human solidarity.
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| Thursday 8 April 2010 |
James Woudhuysen
Whatever happened to innovation?
ELECTION ESSAY: James Woudhuysen explores the roots of the establishment’s neglect of scientific and technological innovation.
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| Thursday 1 April 2010 |
Mick Hume
Don’t believe in the ghosts of politics past
ELECTION ESSAY: Whether we are talking about the UK General Election or the current outbreak of strikes, it is definitely not déjà vu all over again.
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| Tuesday 23 March 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Turning immigration into a tool of social engineering
ELECTION ESSAY: The elite now expresses its snobbery and authoritarianism by being ‘pro-immigration’ rather than anti-immigration.
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| Tuesday 16 March 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Education: you can’t buy and sell intellectual capital
ELECTION ESSAY: Frank Furedi explains why the mighty mess Labour made of education won’t be fixed by privatisation or parental pressure.
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