http://www.spiked-online.com Humanity is underrated en Copyright 2013 2013-06-19T04:20:42+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13717/ The Guardian and Washington Post got a lot wrong in their NSA spying reports, because their urge to tell a scary story overrode fact-checking. Liberties 2013-06-19T04:20:42+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13719/ A US government lecture to locals on tolerance proved to be an official exercise in resentment building. Free speech, USA 2013-06-19T03:31:41+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13718/ The authorities’ attempt to classify e-ciggies as medicinal effaces the real reason people smoke - they enjoy it. Liberties, Smoking 2013-06-19T02:42:34+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13714/ The Nigella Lawson ‘choking’ incident confirms that respectable observers are as good at being voyeuristic and moralistic as any tabloid hack. Privacy 2013-06-18T05:18:59+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13715/ America’s military industrial complex once chased communists. Now it obsesses over CO2 emissions. Environment 2013-06-18T03:27:20+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13716/ ESSAY: The shoddy science of sceptic-bashing LOG12 attempts to turn criticism into a psychological illness. Environment 2013-06-18T01:35:42+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13711/ Ann Furedi’s spiked essay on the importance of a woman’s right to choose ignited much heated debate. Here, she reiterates her stance. Abortion 2013-06-17T08:27:50+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13712/ Lone parents, once the easy target of the New Right, are now being championed by the family-fearing state. 2013-06-17T07:32:50+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13713/ The police are banging up people for drunkenly posting comments on Facebook. Could you be next? Free speech, Social media 2013-06-17T05:40:53+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13707/ With its clotted prose, list of historical facts, and sub-plot about humans breeding like rabbits, Dan Brown’s latest is a depressing read. 2013-06-14T06:51:36+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13709/ Hated in Spain, loathed in Italy, but adored in Britain – what is it about Mourinho that makes him our special one? Sport 2013-06-14T04:24:19+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13708/ More wide-eyed fan letter than serious documentary, a new movie fails to convince us the Roses were a great band. Film 2013-06-14T02:57:50+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13705/ Where is the outcry over the rising number of blatant cases of non-secret state interference online and in social media? Free speech, Social media 2013-06-13T06:29:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13706/ Those calling for the EDL leader to be ‘no platformed’ from BBC radio hold the listening public in contempt. British politics 2013-06-13T03:39:48+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13703/ Compensating Kenyans for their treatment during the Mau Mau uprising makes a mockery of anti-colonial struggles. Africa 2013-06-13T01:36:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13701/ Unorthodox autism campaign groups are finally distancing themselves from the MMR theory. Sadly, they’ve embraced other cranky theories. MMR and autism 2013-06-12T07:19:26+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13702/ The current panic about internet porn is born of adult anxieties rather than children’s degeneracy. Parents and kids, Risk, Science and technology 2013-06-12T04:30:41+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13704/ Anti-capitalist protesters in London yesterday had only one real objective: to get punched by a cop. Anti-capitalism 2013-06-12T02:27:33+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13698/ The increasingly irrational cult of the whistle-blower is bad for politics and bad for journalism. We need some heretics to blow it apart. British politics, Liberties, USA 2013-06-11T06:19:15+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13699/ The Art Everywhere plan to plaster art on UK billboards is more about public relations than public art. Arts & Culture 2013-06-11T04:43:18+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13700/ Reorientating criminal justice around the rights of alleged victims is destroying the rights of the defendant. Crime and the law 2013-06-11T02:59:03+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13695/ Saying ‘I hate Michael Gove’ now works as a kind of password that grants one entry into the inner circle of polite society. Why has this happened? Education 2013-06-10T07:26:11+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13696/ The mountain of scary ‘advice’ facing pregnant women is built on risk inflation and utterly junk science. Parents and kids 2013-06-10T05:30:59+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13697/ A new campaign for the abolition of UK faith schools ignores the real crisis in the state education sector. Education 2013-06-10T03:45:30+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13688/ Christopher Lane talks to spiked about the new edition of the bible of psychiatry – ‘a legal document facilitating the medication of millions’. Mental health 2013-06-07T07:28:29+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13692/ One hundred years after she leapt in front of the king’s horse at Epsom, Davison death still divides opinion. 2013-06-07T05:24:53+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13691/ The re-release of two classic Japanese cartoons reminds us of a time when kids’ intellect was taken seriously. Film 2013-06-07T05:08:05+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13690/ The fashion for blaring out pop songs is killing the real source of stadium atmosphere: the noise of the fans. Sport 2013-06-07T03:59:48+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13689/ Doctor Who fans are right to be anxious about the prospect of an oh-so-relevant gender- or race-swapping Doctor. TV and radio 2013-06-07T02:51:50+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13685/ Events in Turkey confirm that imposing the conformist Occupy brand on every global protest only helps to confuse and contain them. Europe 2013-06-06T04:58:28+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13686/ In this video, Mick Hume takes us on a trip through the ‘After Leveson’ exhibition in London that he helped to curate. 2013-06-06T03:00:51+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13687/ Activists want to squish the EDL because they think its propaganda turns Muslims into Islamists. How patronising. British politics 2013-06-06T02:13:34+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13683/ Britain has profound economic problems that can only be addressed through the wholesale renewal of production and infrastructure. Economy 2013-06-05T05:57:50+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13684/ Lawyers leading the prosecution of British soldiers for abusing Afghans are unwittingly legitimising the war on terror. Afghanistan, British politics 2013-06-05T04:40:56+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13681/ Stop being sniffy about this language that uses words like diaper and can’t pronounce aluminium; it's the new Latin. Education 2013-06-05T02:32:47+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13679/ Economists are perplexed to find that today, in a first in any postwar recession, productivity is not recovering. Phil Mullan tells them why. Economy 2013-06-04T07:55:35+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13640/ Blaming Western shoppers for the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building will make life worse for Bangladeshis. Anti-capitalism, Modern life 2013-06-04T04:29:20+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13682/ A new law banning Northern Irish politicians from employing certain advisers exposes the tyranny of victim politics. Ireland 2013-06-04T02:47:50+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13676/ Blaming marketisation for the riots is way too simplistic. It was welfarism that copperfastened poor people’s exclusion from society. Social policy and the welfare state 2013-06-03T07:02:58+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13677/ In supposedly 'model' Sweden, multicultural policies have led to the kids of immigrants being excluded from the mainstream. Social policy and the welfare state 2013-06-03T06:05:01+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13678/ The latest lobbying and lords scandal shows that the upper chamber doesn't need reform – it needs abolition. Social policy and the welfare state 2013-06-03T02:20:21+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13671/ Yes, Fitzgerald’s a novel was written in an era of cultural pessimism, but it has a powerful sense of possibility – something its contemporary interpreters tend to obscure. review of books - 2013-05 (May) 2013-05-31T07:29:37+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13669/ Jocelyn Auer, author of Baby Boomers: Busting the Myths, talks to spiked about the dangerously defeatist tendency to blame all of society's problems on one postwar generation. review of books - 2013-05 (May) 2013-05-31T06:02:03+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13673/ A new book shows how the messed-up outlook around raising children that turned 'parent' into a verb is spreading beyond its Anglo-American roots. review of books - 2013-05 (May) 2013-05-31T05:37:37+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13667/ Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on. review of books - 2013-05 (May) 2013-05-31T04:40:37+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13665/ A reissue of Zoe Fairbairns’ dystopian novel Benefits is a timely reminder that left-wingers weren't always such big fans of welfarism. review of books - 2013-05 (May) 2013-05-31T03:27:37+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13668/ review of books - 2013-05 (May) 2013-05-31T03:20:51+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13666/ Emily Bazelon’s new book makes a powerful, eloquent case against too much adult meddling in children’s spats and scraps. review of books - 2013-05 (May) 2013-05-31T02:33:20+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13662/ A coroner’s ruling that the press helped drive a transgender teacher to her death marks a new low in the culture of ‘You can’t say that’. 2013-05-30T05:06:38+00:00 http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13672/ Stravinsky’s ballet, which debuted 100 years ago, is a great work, but not as iconoclastic as its fans claim. Music 2013-05-30T04:15:52+00:00