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Friday 4 November 2011 Home
Patrick Hayes
Prohibition makes an evidence-based comeback
The Prohibitionists of 1920s America could only look in envy at the way that ban-happy moralists have stormed the corridors of power today.
Duleep Allirajah
What’s said on the pitch should stay on the pitch
To all those footballers crying to the authorities over offensive remarks made in the heat of battle: man up.

Tom Slater
Hollywood and politics don’t mix
With his new thriller, The Ides of March, George Clooney shows Democrats can be personally flawed, too - just like his film.

Thursday 3 November 2011
Mick Hume
Beware of Greeks bearing votes!
The Euro-elites’ horror at the proposal to hold a Greek referendum on the bailout shows that Europe is at risk of democratic bankruptcy.

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.

Rob Lyons
An earthquake under Britain’s energy supply
Climate-obsessed greens are desperate to exploit two tiny tremors to scare the UK away from exploiting shale gas.

Michael Baum
Does breast screening do more harm than good?
A new UK review of the benefits and harms of screening is welcome, but what we really need is better evidence.

Wednesday 2 November 2011
Tim Black
We need elected members, not the Wingnut of Windsor
The revelation that Prince Charles has the power to veto legislation is shocking, but UK democracy in general has fallen into disrepute.

Bill Durodié
How CSR became big business
Corporate social responsibility allows governments to avoid accountability and gives companies a sense of purpose.

Nathalie Rothschild
No more room for ‘the huddled masses’
While New York celebrates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, America shows little desire to welcome immigrants.

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.

Dave Clements
Why feel charitable towards charities?
Charities in the UK have become far too dependent on state funding, at the cost of their independence.

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.

Monday 31 October 2011
Brendan O’Neill
Call off this culture
war against ‘the poor’

In a speech for the Liberty League in London, Brendan O’Neill denounced the dictatorship of
do-gooders colonising poor communities.


Nathalie Rothschild
Happy birthday, baby seven billion!
Ignore the population doom-mongers and dive into spiked’s archives for a celebration of human life and ingenuity.

Tom Slater
We need to talk
about suspense

Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin manages to make a school shooting look tedious.


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