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Thursday 2 July 2009 Home
Brendan O’Neill
Labour: the ghost of government past
The Brown regime’s U-turns on Royal Mail, ID cards and education reveals something shocking: Britain currently has no real government.
Rob Lyons
Desperately seeking an economic revival
The British government seems more interested in saving its own skin than devising an economic strategy.

Sadhvi Sharma
You say Dilli, I say Delhi
Rebranding Indian cities, streets and landmarks with ‘authentic’ Hindi names is parochial and chauvinistic, says Bombayite Sadhvi Sharma.

Wednesday 1 July 2009
Mick Hume
Brown’s Britain: the Mr Bean of diplomacy?
The irony of the embassy controversy is that the UK has been singled out for attack by the Iranian regime because it lacks influence there today.

Tuesday 7 July 2009, London
What future for business?
Risk-taking after the recession.

Nathalie Rothschild
What next, ‘British women for British men’?
Brown’s promise of social housing for local people shows that he thinks the way to beat the BNP is to steal its policies.

Jessica Mudditt
In Calais, solidarity with the sans papiers
PHOTO ESSAY: Jessica Mudditt reports on a protest for open borders at the wasteland migrant shanties in France.

Tuesday 30 June 2009
In defence of the right to discriminate
Basham and Luik
Turning fat people into social outcasts
A new report chastising fat celebs as a bad influence is part of a worrying campaign to ‘denormalise’ chubbiness.

Tim Black
These obscenity laws should be abolished
The case of a pervy blog about Girls Aloud should alert us to the dangers of allowing the state to regulate people’s fantasies.

Monday 29 June 2009
James Woudhuysen
Let’s go back to the
moon — and beyond

As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration.

Andrew Calcutt
Jacko was a product of our Wacko culture
In staying childish and obsessing over his identity, Michael Jackson was actually normal by today’s standards.

Anna Travis
Ban-happy Brighton
Far from promising a wild weekend, the UK seaside town of Brighton is fast degenerating into a centre of booze-confiscating puritanism.

Friday 26 June 2009
Issue No.25
June 2009

The politics of the hidden agenda
Beware the primitivism of conspiratorial thinking.
by Frank Furedi

Welcome to June’s review of books
Editor's note
The grisly memoirs of a bad mother
by Jennie Bristow
Al-Qaeda: it’s not big and it’s not clever
by Philip Hammond
Meet China’s factory girls
Chimps are nothing like humans
Travel is not a political act
The tyranny of anti-smoking
Are boys now the inferior sex?
Gladwell: hero or zero?
New Labour’s ‘Digital Britain’
Thursday 25 June 2009
Mick Hume
They need more than sympathy for Neda
The way that the image of a dying student has become the icon of the Iranian protests suggests both strengths and weaknesses in the opposition.

Probably the most misunderstood cultural phenomenon right now, online poker is so much more than just a game of skill. Let's go to bat for this many-sided game of mental gymnastics.
Patrick West
Letting Ordinary Joe loose on the nation
Radio producers think phone-in shows are democratic. In truth they’re stuffed with whiny, clichéd invective.

Duleep Allirajah
I’ve changed my mind about Twenty20 cricket
Yes it’s vulgar; yes it has drunken crowds and dancing girls; yes it simplifies cricket. But so what?

Nathalie Rothschild
Listen to the world in Fès
PHOTO ESSAY: From African reggae to American gospel, a Moroccan festival showcases music from around the globe.


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