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Friday 9 March 2012	Fukushima


Rob Lyons One year on: the lessons of Fukushima On the first anniversary of the Japanese tsunami, Rob Lyons asks why some fairly minor damage to one nuclear plant became the story.

Thursday 29 December 2011
Rob Lyons Reasons to be fearful? Top 10 panics of 2011 It was a turbulent year across the world, yet petty fearmongers still grabbed their share of the headlines.

Monday 12 September 2011
Colin McInnes The long road to green serfdom Germany’s decision to ditch nuclear power should be a wake-up call to all those who favour development.

Monday 4 July 2011
Rob Lyons Who’s really fibbing about Fukushima? The way greens tried to play up the accident was far more shocking than ministers’ attempts to ‘play it down’.

Thursday 2 June 2011
Frank Furedi Nuclear vs climate change: the clash of the alarmists Germany’s hysterical decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants exposes the dangers of competitive fearmongering.

Monday 16 May 2011
Dominic Standish Is it arrivederci to nuclear power in Italy? The Italian government has prioritised risk-avoidance and short-term political survival over acute energy needs.

Monday 4 April 2011
Ben Pile Fukushima: why greens turned on each other The reaction to events in Japan shows that fear – of climate change or radiation – trumps old solidarities.

Friday 1 April 2011
Rob Lyons Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful Physicist Wade Allison says he wants to alleviate fears about nuclear. Trouble is, his warnings against catastrophic climate change sound just as alarmist as the nuke panic.

Tuesday 29 March 2011
Bill Durodié Fukushima: sounding worse, getting better Obsessed with the idea of a nuclear meltdown, the doom mongerers are blind to the reality at Fukushima.

Thursday 24 March 2011
Frank Furedi Japan needs our solidarity, not a blame game The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback.

Thursday 24 March 2011
Tim Black My catastrophe is bigger than yours Anti-nuclear activists’ exploitation of the instability at Fukshima is a historic low point - even for them.

Thursday 24 March 2011
Matthias Heitmann The globalisation of German angst Never mind the people in Japan — for fearful Germans, every natural disaster is now ‘all about us’.

Thursday 24 March 2011
Bill Durodié The mad post- tsunami food panic You could eat Japan's so-called ‘radioactive spinach’ for a whole year and it still wouldn’t cause you much harm.

Thursday 24 March 2011
Sophie Knight Tokyo: a long way from Chernobyl Sophie Knight reports from Tokyo on how the foreign press seems more interested in scare stories than reporting reality.

Wednesday 16 March 2011
Rob Lyons Five lessons from Fukushima Alarmist talk of a nuclear crisis in Japan reveals just how fearful modern society has become.

Monday 14 March 2011
Ben Pile Making mountains out of meltdowns Despite the scaremongering of the media and green groups, the real lesson of Fukushima is that nuclear power is safe.

Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.


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	17 May 2013: *The Star Trek* hype? It’s illogical, captain.**


	17 May 2013: Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up
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