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| Thursday 19 November 2009 |
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Brendan O’Neill
Too many people? No, too many Malthusians
Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and they’re still wrong today.
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| Wednesday 18 November 2009 |
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Frank Furedi
Let’s give children the ‘store of human knowledge’
In flattering kids as ‘digital natives’ for whom the past is irrelevant, we degrade a vital adult mission: transmitting knowledge.
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| Tuesday 17 November 2009 |
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Mick Hume
Election: up for grabs, but nothing to play for
As Gordon Brown launches the General Election campaign, the one certainty seems to be that we won't be offered any political choice.
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| Monday 16 November 2009 |
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Jennie Bristow
There’s more to human character than sharing toys
Demos should go on the naughty step for arguing that parenting style determines whether kids become good, bad and even middle class.
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| Friday 13 November 2009 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The ‘McCarthyism’ of the anti-smoking lobby
Two new books expose how epidemiology has been used as a tool of propaganda in the war on tobacco, leaving little room for real facts.
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Patrick West
Communists can’t make colaThe Secret Life of The Berlin Wall was gripping, but it didn’t explain anything new, like why East German coke was so bad. |
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Tessa Mayes
Erasing David and the fight for privacy rights
David Bond’s documentary makes a decent case for defending privacy, but it too often fails as investigative journalism.
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