Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Selma 50 years on: Why King’s dream still matters
Today’s new racialists are judging people on the colour of their skin. Read my spiked article in full here.
Netanyahu in Washington: how Bibi eclipsed Barack
His speech stood in stark contrast to the relativism of the modern West. Read my spiked article in full here.
Jon Stewart, king of snark, abdicates
How the once funny comedian became a viral snark-generator for lazy liberals. Read my spiked article in full here.
Choudray and free speech after Charlie Hebdo
The murder of Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris is truly horrific. One good that has come out if it, however, has been the outpouring of support for free expression, and the right to satirize and offend. Vive Charlie Hebdo, vive free speech. But as Brendan O’Neill has pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, we in the […]
This ban is a fracking outrage
New York’s ban on fracking is an act of pure green elitism. Read my spiked article in full here.
After Ferguson: no, the US is not “congenitally racist”
The shooting was terrible. But so is the fatalism of much of the response. Read my spiked article in full here.
The Democrats are running on empty
The US midterms exposed the Obama administration’s utter exhaustion. Read my spiked article in full here.
The tyranny of the new secular priesthood
Joel Kotkin nails the anti-masses Clerisy that now dominates the US. Read my review of Kotkin’s The New Class Conflict, in the spiked review of books, here.
Sorting fact from fiction in Ferguson
Same old racism? Actually the riots show how much has changed in the US. Read my spiked article in full here.
The purge of gay-marriage heretics begins
The ousting of Brendan Eich from Mozilla because of his views on gay marriage sets a dangerous precedent. Read my spiked article in full here.