spiked-politics

9 March 2006

Jowell: when the political gets too personal
Tessa Jowell should not be judged by unelected quangos for what she did in her personal life, but by the electorate for constantly intruding into ours.

Columns


	Tuesday 21 March 2006, London
	Business on the brink of disaster?

Article

16 March 2006

What Milosevic meant to them
Why some in the West are taking the death of the dictator personally.

Article

16 March 2006

Any volunteers
New Labour's attempts to construct new forms of community show it is the politicians who are socially excluded.

by David Clements

	2 March 2006 Child obesity Should we worry if our children are overweight?

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Article

14 March 2006

After Milosevic
Why the international community turned the ineffectual, authoritarian former president of Yugoslavia into evil personified.

by Philip Cunliffe

Article

10 March 2006

Guantanamo Bay and the champagne anti-imperialists
The campaign against Camp X-Ray has been hijacked by moral posturing.

Article

7 March 2006

The biggest scandal in Italian politics
Never mind Tessa Jowell's husband David Mills; it's the Italian magistrates hunting him that we should be worried about.

by James Heartfield

Article

7 March 2006

Are Muslims being persecuted?
Ignore the crass comparisons between 1930s anti-Semitism and 'Islamophobia' today: some Muslims are wearing victimhood as a badge of honour.

by Neil Davenport


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Article

9 March 2006

The 'war on terror' as displacement activity
The author of Imperial Hubris recognises the rot in Western society, but seems to think it can be resolved by taking out some Johnny Foreigners.

by Bill Durodi�

Article

3 March 2006

Iraq: stop the shroud-waving
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume

Column

2 March 2006

Irving and Livingstone: what liberal backlash?
The imprisonment of David Irving and suspension of Ken Livingstone are the logical extension of an illiberal political climate that some of the backlashers helped to create.

Columns

Article

2 March 2006

Growth is good
Benjamin Friedman�s new book makes a decent stab at defending affluence, but doesn�t go far enough in its attack on �growth sceptics�.

by Daniel Ben-Ami

Article

2 March 2006

Serbia: from pariah to EU member
Serbia is currently charged with genocide, under pressure to hand over General Mladic, and up for membership of the EU. What�s going on? Two authors offer their views.

by David Chandler and Tara McCormack

Article

23 February 2006

Gossip dressed up as investigative journalism
Conspiracy theories about everything from Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to spiked writers are polluting the mainstream media.

Article

23 February 2006

Balkanisation by another name
In the talks about Kosovo's future, the former Yugoslavia is being treated as a carcass to be dissected by Western diplomats.

by Philip Cunliffe

Column

Jennie Bristow

21 February 2006

How-to politics
Geoff Mulgan's new organisation Involve seeks to 'put people at the heart of decision-making'. But what decisions, and why?

Columns

Article

14 February 2006

New York debates Iraq
A series of debates about US foreign policy ranged from dull predictability to childish ranting. Isn't there another way?

by Alan Miller

Article

13 February 2006

A tale of two demos
Saturday's demonstration of moderate Muslims was presented as a peaceful counter to last week's aggressive gathering. In fact, similar resentments seemed to simmer beneath both.

Column

6 February 2006

Those cartoons: a caricatured argument
All of this heat about the Danish cartoons is shedding no light on the important questions of free speech, genuine tolerance, multiculturalism and society today.

Columns

Article

10 February 2006

How could this ranting crank 'brainwash' anybody?
Read spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London) on Abu Hamza.

by Mick Hume

Article

2 February 2006

Who skews crime reporting?
Before fantasising about institutional racism in the media, police chief Sir Ian Blair should read some newspapers - and the Met's own press releases.

by Neil Davenport

Article

2 February 2006

Avoiding the state of the union
Bush's Middle Eastern policy is in chaos - so why was it the centrepiece of his presidential address?

by Alex Gourevitch and Nicholas Frayn

Article

30 January 2006

Who's obsessed with homosexuality?
It is the liberal elite, not the public, that kicks up a fuss about gay MPs.

Column

27 January 2006

Whatever happened to the anti-war movement?
The fall of George Galloway reveals that neither side is winning the battle over Iraq.

Columns

Article

27 January 2006

All quiet on the Middle Eastern front
Hamas may have won the Palestinian elections, but Western predictions of war and bloodshed are wide off the mark.

by Nicholas Frayn

Article

26 January 2006

Diminishing the Holocaust
Having turned the Nazi genocide into a platform for cheap moral posturing, the UK government can't be surprised that everyone else wants a piece of the action.

Article

24 January 2006

Government by bribery
It's a sign that politics is bankrupt when the government pays the public to comply with its policies.

Article

24 January 2006

Nul points for Blair's EU presidency
Why the British PM failed to make political capital from his time at the EU helm.

by Bruno Waterfield

Article

20 January 2006

Iran: an irrational war of words
The spat between the West and Iran highlights the dangers of making up foreign policy as you go along.

Article

17 January 2006

Rebranding Britishness: the last refuge of the vacuous
Gordon Brown's speech to the Fabian Society showed that our rulers are in the grip of an identity crisis.

Article

13 January 2006

I'm Not Really a Politician, Vote for Me...
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume

Article

12 January 2006

Who's on life support: Sharon or Israel?
The response to Ariel Sharon's stroke suggests that some think a nation is dying rather than its leader.

Column

9 January 2006

What Kennedy and Galloway tell us about politics now
Their recent antics reveal the shallow (show-) business that political leadership has become.

Columns

Article

5 January 2006

Searching for their own personal Palestine
Why middle-class Westerners like Kate Burton are queuing up to get into Gaza.

Column

28 December 2005

2005: No 'Annus Horribilis' for humanity
Why use the Asian tsunami as the defining image of life this year?

Columns

Article

28 December 2005

Free thinking?
A report on the recent Cato Institute conference in New York.

by Alan Miller

Article

16 December 2005

Humanitarian interventionists dig in
In his new book Anti-Totalitarianism, Oliver Kamm makes a shrill and inconsistent defence of the Iraq war.

by James Heartfield

Column

15 December 2005

David Cameron and the demise of Conservatism
We now have a non-Tory leading the Conservative Party, to go with our non-Labourite leader of the Labour Party.

Columns

Article

15 December 2005

New Toryism: easy listening politics
David Cameron's 'big challenges' get some young Londoners humming along - but does that mean he's 'the future'?

by Ben Walford

Article

9 December 2005

The elites, masses and racism
The aftermath of Anthony Walker's murder shows that it's working-class whites who are now seen as the scum of the earth.

by Neil Davenport

Article

7 December 2005

Why Saddam's trial is so trying for the coalition
The 'trial of the century' has descended into a 'comedy show'.

Column

2 December 2005

One murder doesn't make a racist society
The response to the killing of Anthony Walker tells us more about Britain than the murder itself.

Columns

Article

2 December 2005

Muriel Degauque: Islamo-fascist, freedom fighter or what?
The Belgian brunette didn't only blow up herself in Baghdad - she also blew to bits the various stereotypes of Islamic terrorists.

Column

25 November 2005

The proof that not everything is a conspiracy
Recent scandals over Iraq show that today�s leaders are incapable of covering their own backsides, never mind covering up a war.

Columns

Article

25 November 2005

Behind Sharon's pragmatism
The Israeli leader's resignation from his own Likud party shows up the superficiality of contemporary Israeli politics.

by Nicholas Frayn

Column

Jennie Bristow

22 November 2005

After the Bradford police murder
The overblown sentimentalism that has greeted the tragic killing of Sharon Beshenivsky reveals a police force in denial.

Columns

Article

18 November 2005

Christopher Meyer: what a creep
In his controversial memoirs DC Confidential, the former British ambassador to the US comes off far worse than those 'pygmies' and 'pandas' in government.

Column

11 November 2005

Blair, Bush, Chirac: in power, but in paralysis
Why can't any government face up to a political challenge these days?

Columns

Article

8 November 2005

French lessons for us all
The riots reveal the political exhaustion of Europe.

by Frank Furedi

Article

4 November 2005

Resurrecting Franco
Spain's political leaders are dusting off the old dictator as a panto villain to distract an increasingly disgruntled public.

by Robert Latona

Article

28 October 2005

When body-counts kill
Our obsession with numbers of casualties in Iraq encourages the insurgents to make even more.

Article

28 October 2005

How low can Bush go?
The president�s retreat on Miers leaves him and his party in a lose-lose situation.

by Helen Searls

Article

26 October 2005

What's behind the battle of Lozells?
The black v Asian riots in Birmingham have roots in the politics of multiculturalism.

Article

21 October 2005

Osama bin Laden: more media whore than guerrilla warrior
The author of a refreshing new book says al-Qaeda has more in common with new global movements than with nationalist armies of old.

Article

21 October 2005

All's quiet on the Trafalgar front
Why the British elite won't utter the v-word on the bicentennial of Nelson's battle.

by James Woudhuysen

Article

6 October 2005

The Poverty of Multiculturalism
The author of a new pamphlet on multiculturalism offers his critique of the liberal-left�s celebration of difference.

by Patrick West

Article

4 October 2005

Serbia: from 'people power' to public passivity
If the ousting of Milosevic really was a revolutionary moment, why is the country in a state of stagnation a mere five years later?

by Philip Cunliffe

by Frank Furedi, Russell Jacoby, Richard Sennett

Article

26 September 2005

Reflections on the future
In New York this Friday, three leading intellectuals will interrogate and debate politics in the twenty-first century. Here, they outline their views.

Article

15 September 2005

Politics of Fear
Frank Furedi talks about his new book.

by Jennie Bristow

Column

9 September 2005

Time to stop playing 'pin the blame on the donkey'
Everybody seems to want to use Katrina to settle old scores.

Columns

Article

26 August 2005

Germany: have politicians lost their tongues?
Speechlessness and evasion mark the run-up to the German elections.

by Sabine Reul

Article

25 August 2005

Ukraine: after the party
Now that the TV cameras are gone, Yushchenko�s regime is showing its cracks.

by Jack Jordan

Article

5 August 2005

The price of multiculturalism
What the responses to the killing of Anthony Walker in Liverpool and the failed bombings in London reveal about contemporary Britain.

by Michael Fitzpatrick

Article

23 June 2005

Where are the bodies, Bob?
Bob Geldof told millions of TV viewers that dead African children wash up on a tiny Italian island every day. The island�s mayor says that is 'absolute nonsense'.

Article

24 November 2004

Who isn't exploiting the politics of fear?
Blair's one-eyed critics are making the same mistake as Bush's opponents.

by Mick Hume