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Tuesday 16 April 2013	Health


Ken McLaughlin Time to abolish the psychiatric ASBO Placing state-backed constraints on ex-mental patients is a flagrant violation of their autonomy.

Tuesday 26 March 2013
Patrick Hayes One off the wrist for health fanatics A new fitness app - a data-generating wristband to be worn 24/7 - claims to help you to ‘live better’. Far from it.

Thursday 14 March 2013
Robin Walsh It's the antibiotics apocalypse! Again... Ignore the Chief Medical Officer’s fearmongering: antibiotic resistance can be tackled with new antibiotics.

Wednesday 6 March 2013
Stuart Derbyshire The miracle of the HIV-free baby The apparent curing of a baby with HIV is a brilliant reminder of man’s capacity to defeat nature’s many menaces.

Tuesday 19 February 2013
Brid Hehir Why caregivers have stopped caring A former nurse says that the mistreatment of patients at Mid-Staffs is a symptom of a bigger crisis of compassion.

Thursday 24 January 2013
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick The rise of a pseudo-scientific links lobby Every day there seems to be a new study making a link between food, chemicals or lifestyle and ill-health. None of them has any link with reality.

Thursday 24 January 2013
Christopher Snowdon This junk science just takes your breath away The claim that the smoking ban has reduced asthma rates is a case study in using ‘research’ to justify coercive policy.

Tuesday 4 December 2012
Brid Hehir Time to scrap the Care Quality Commission The only thing the social-care monitoring quango has done is nourish tick-box culture at the expense of patient care.

Wednesday 11 July 2012
Rob Lyons Picking over the panic on a plate When it comes to food, journalists and reporters are far too keen to fill themselves up on a diet of fear and hype.

Tuesday 10 July 2012
Tim Black Blaming Big Pharma for society’s ills GlaxoSmithKline may have deserved its $3 billion fine, but it doesn’t deserve the blame for therapy culture.

Wednesday 6 June 2012
Chris Snowdon Great news! Governments agree to abolish death! A deal signed at a world health forum provides a charter for public-health nuts to declare war on our lifestyles.

Wednesday 23 May 2012
Jason Walsh How smokers’ rights are being vapourised The anti-smoking lobby has now targeted electronic cigarettes in order to crack down even on the ‘notion’ of smoking.

Tuesday 1 May 2012
Rob Lyons The rationing of medical treatment is really sick Withholding healthcare from smokers and fat people is a pretty grotesque attempt to strongarm everyone into the so-called Good Life.

Monday 30 April 2012
Ken McLaughlin We don’t want to be ‘empowered’, thanks The fad for empowerment in social work and politics is really about making people comply with state diktat.

Monday 23 April 2012
Sandy Starr Is autism just another identity? ESSAY: With so many people being added to the ‘autism spectrum’, a disorder is being transformed into a lifestyle.

Monday 16 April 2012
Michael Baum Where have all the pink dollars gone? A new breast cancer-awareness doc is too focused on conspiracies to grasp the real travesty of ‘pink think’.

Monday 26 March 2012
Patrick Hayes Minimum pricing means minimising choice Ramping up the price of booze won't change drinking habits, but it will squeeze just a little more freedom out of life.

Friday 10 February 2012
Tim Black ‘Comedians have a right to be offensive. But they should also be funny’ The father of a girl with Down syndrome talks to spiked about prejudice, liberty and Frankie Boyle.

Thursday 9 February 2012
Nathalie Rothschild Freedom of religion is not a right-wing thing The debate about Obama’s ruling on birth control in healthcare packages shows that many liberals are now worryingly sniffy about religious liberty.

Thursday 19 January 2012
Sadhvi Sharma India’s inspiring war on polio The massive human effort that helped make India polio-free shows that greater wealth brings greater health.
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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.


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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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