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Wednesday 1 May 2013 Environment
Rob Lyons
Eurocrats with a bee in their bonnets
It seems the bee has replaced the whale and the polar bear as the friendly face of green authoritarianism.

Monday 15 April 2013
Rob Lyons
We need a bit more hunger to end poverty
Claims that climate change will cause mass starvation could actually make it harder to feed the world.

Wednesday 3 April 2013
Rob Lyons
Lies, damned lies and hockey sticks
The exposure of yet another dodgy piece of climate-change alarmism shows the need for serious scepticism.

Monday 25 March 2013
Alex Standish
We don’t need
no eco-propaganda

A geography expert explains why he’s pleased that schoolkids will be taught less about climate change.

Wednesday 20 March 2013
Rob Lyons
Adopt a polar bear? Have you seen what they do?
How did the polar bear, a vicious killing machine that is thriving, become the poster boy of climate-change alarmism?

Wednesday 6 February 2013
Rob Lyons
Climate change: apocalypse postponed
Even scientists at the forefront of climate-change alarmism accept the world isn’t warming as quickly as once thought.

Thursday 31 January 2013
Rob Lyons
HS2: heading in the right direction
The problem with Britain’s high-speed rail plan is not that it’s too big and costly, but that it isn’t ambitious enough.

Monday 7 January 2013
Tim Black
Why the prince *hearts* environmentalists
In eco-activism, Charles has found a cause every bit as reactionary and anti-modern as the monarchy itself.

Wednesday 5 December 2012
Rob Lyons
Doha: It's the end of the world as we know it
As the latest round of climate-change talks show, the Kyoto Protocol is over and seems unlikely to be replaced. Good.

Monday 13 August 2012
Ben Pile
Why facts cut no ice
in the climate debate

Reports of Greenland’s ice melting are overheated because the eco-outlook poisons both science and politics.

Wednesday 1 August 2012
Rob Lyons
Forgive me IPCC, for I have sinned...
The rapturous welcome given to a high-profile ‘climate sceptic’ who has now recanted exposes the backwardness of green thinking.

Tuesday 3 July 2012
Ben Pile
Rio+20: a tyranny
of green do-gooders

The latest ‘save the planet’ shindig provided yet another chance for political poseurs to dictate our future.

Wednesday 20 June 2012
Barbara Hewson
Treating adults like children
A judge’s ruling that an anorexic should be force-fed shows how paternalistic British courts are becoming.

Thursday 17 May 2012
Ben Pile
‘The real enemy is humanity itself’
At Rio+20 next month, the world’s elites will meet in Brazil with the aim of holding back human progress.

Thursday 3 May 2012
Rob Lyons
There’s no such thing as a natural drought
Never mind the lack of rain in recent UK winters - it is our willingness to invest and build big that has really dried up.

Tuesday 28 February 2012
Ben Pile
Greens, face it: we’re just not that into you
As ‘Fakegate’ inconvenient truth for greens is there is no denialist conspiracy blocking climate-change action.

Tuesday 14 February 2012
Ben Pile
Climate-change alarmism: fuelled by fantasy
As a study of the state of the world’s glaciers indicates, climate catastrophists are still making it up as they go along.

Wednesday 25 January 2012
Rob Lyons
What’s up with the bees?
Two researchers tell spiked that green activists have been a little too keen to blame pesticides for the not-so-great bee die-off.

Wednesday 25 January 2012
Ben Pile
Greens to sceptics: show us the money!
The campaign to get a tiny charity to reveal its backers is driven by a desire to stamp out any eco-criticism.

Monday 23 January 2012
Nick Thorne
Putting plankton before people
Eco-warriors who campaign against the building of dams are damning the poor to live at nature’s mercy.

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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.



15 May 2013
St Angelina, save
us from ourselves!

14 May 2013
Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life

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


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