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Tom Bailey
It's no surprise that bankers ♥ Occupy
Having won praise from the church and media, now conformist Occupy is fawned over by the Bank of England.
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| Tuesday 1 May 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Why Occupy and the church cling together
The ongoing love-in between Occupiers and men of the cloth is fitting: both have a pious disdain for the masses.
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| Tuesday 20 December 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
The protesters who tried to steal Christmas
The Grinches at Occupy reveal what they really think of the masses they claim to represent: not a lot.
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| Wednesday 23 November 2011 |
Sean Collins
Occupy: the sad reality and the mad fantasies
Far from being clear-eyed, Occupy Wall Street is a blank slate on to which every opportunistic op-ed writer is scribbling his or her pet concerns.
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| Tuesday 22 November 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Occupy London really are Blair's babes
Judging by their Safer Space policy, the occupiers are big fans of Blair-style, PC petty authoritarianism.
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| Tuesday 15 November 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Occupy movement: all process and no principle
ESSAY: If the occupiers are so opposed to ‘the one per cent’, why do they keep ripping off its soul-destroying managerial style of politics?
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| Tuesday 15 November 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Occupy London in cahoots with coppers
Far from being enemies of the state, the St Paul’s occupiers are helping the police arrest political undesirables.
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| Tuesday 15 November 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Occupy: the Tea Party, with better press?
The media has covered these often-eccentric reactions to America’s economic and political crises very differently.
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| Thursday 3 November 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Who needs demands when you can Occupy?
Patrick Hayes reports from a debate last night in London where Occupy supporters dismissed the need for politics.
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| Tuesday 1 November 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Why church officials worship these protesters
No attempt to depict Occupy London as a Second Coming of angry Jesuses can disguise the fact that it remains a shallow moral gesture.
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| Tuesday 1 November 2011 |
Paul Seaman
OWS: not a preoccupation of social-media users
Despite its claims to be 'the 99%', the Occupy movement has generated little interest on Facebook or Twitter.
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| Thursday 27 October 2011 |
Frank Furedi
It’s 100% certain that they don’t represent 99%
The occupiers’ claim to speak for ‘the 99%’ exposes how determined they are to avoid hard political debate in favour of cheap moralising.
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| Monday 24 October 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Occupy LSX: London’s revolting campers
PHOTO ESSAY: Patrick Hayes reports from the recycling-obsessed, ideas-lite ‘tent city’ by St Paul’s Cathedral.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Occupy London: a ragbag of political conformists
The occupiers think that by eschewing leaders and ideology they become immune to dogmatic thinking. The precise opposite is the case.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Sean Collins
Turning protest into a freakfest
Why do the great and good of America want to be best friends with the Occupy Wall Street oddballs?
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The disenfranchised majority kicks back
Occupy Wall Street may be incoherent, but it’s a long overdue reaction to an out-of-touch political class.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Tim Black
V for Vacuous
From the Occupy protests to the anti-tuition fees protest, you’ll always find someone disguised as Guy Fawkes. What’s going on?
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| Wednesday 12 October 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The rage of hip consumers
When Ben & Jerry’s, owned by Unilever, offers support to Occupy Wall Street, you know this ain’t no revolution.
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| Thursday 6 October 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The wannabe tyrants of Wall Street
Disdainful and conspiracy-minded, the protesters claiming to speak for all Americans are acting like teenage despots.
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| Wednesday 21 September 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Is this Monty Python’s Occupy Wall Street?
The surreal protests in New York’s financial district will certainly leave the system shaking. With laughter.
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