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Thursday 19 April 2012 Home
Nathalie Rothschild
It isn’t only Breivik
who’s on trial in Oslo
The killer seems to have acted alone. So why the clamour to blame his actions on everything from divorce to football hooliganism to Sweden?
Tim Black
The imperial narcissism of the F1 boycotters
The activists who say the race shouldn't be staged in Bahrain are only interested in displaying their decency.
Helene Guldberg
The National Trust’s imagination deficit
The conservation charity is right to celebrate outdoor play, but the idea of ‘nature-deficit disorder’ is nonsense.
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Brendan O’Neill
Ken vs Boris? What a letdown for London
When even a mayoral contest in a city as great as this lacks zeal and ideas, you know traditional politics is in a bad way.
Daniel Ben-Ami
Inequality: a middle-class obsession
spiked_plus_exclusive
ESSAY: Unlike past warriors for equality, today’s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.
Wendy Kaminer
The right to be
wildly unpopular
spiked_plus_exclusive
US civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer answers your questions on Obama, the Tea Party, Leveson and loads more.
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Mick Hume
Hands off the Grand National
The row over the death of two racehorses blends contempt for the masses, risk-aversion and the irrationalism of animal rights.
Norman Lewis
Instagram, Kodak and the end of innovation
ESSAY: The contrasting fates of two photo companies shows there’s more money in navel-gazing than transformative tech.
Luke Samuel
Don’t ban it.
Get over it!
The banning of silly Christian bus adverts reveals the contempt in which the mayor holds ordinary Londoners.

Jason Walsh
The snobbery of the anti-Titanic crew
The only thing more absurd than the recent outbreak of Titanic mania is the anti-Titanic tut-tutting.
Monday 16 April 2012
Frank Furedi
This linguistic engineering invades our lives and loves
Officialdom’s frenetic replacement of words like son and wife with words like ‘carer’ and ‘partner’ diminishes our identities.
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’.
Barrie Collins
Shooting down the ‘truth’ about Rwanda
ESSAY: Barrie Collins exposes the fictions of those claiming to know who killed the Rwandan president in 1994.
Friday 13 April 2012
Sean Collins
Is America committing ‘superpower suicide’?
Yes, claims that America is rotting like the Roman Empire are over the top, but two new books swing too far in the other direction.
Rob Lyons
For once, Alan Davies is right
He’s a twit, yes, but the comedian is right to question the compulsory mourning over Hillsborough.
David Bowden
Getting off on TV dating shows
Take Me Out might be good fun on a Saturday night but The Undateables is the one you’d want to take home with you.
Tom Slater
Taking Titanic seriously will end in disaster
Critics should forget the historical inaccuracies - James Cameron’s rereleased blockbuster is a naff weepy and nothing more.

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Ken vs Boris? What a letdown for London
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