Politics & The Economy

We dismiss the culture war at our peril

18 July 2022 Spiked Unless we win the culture war, society will never meet the needs of ordinary people. Time and again, media...

Why Boris failed

The Demise of Boris Johnson 10 July 2022, Spiked You could hear the army of cynical Eurocrats chuckle as Boris Johnson announced his...

Ukraine In The Crosshair The Revenge Of History

13 March 2022 It has all happened very, very quickly. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a little over two weeks ago, it has suddenly...

Ukraine and the new world disorder

The US and Russia are once again trying to decide the future of Europe. 28 February 2022 https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/28/ukraine...

Not even the Border Force believes in borders anymore

The people in charge of Britain have lost all interest in defending national sovereignty. 15 November 2021, Frank Furedi, Spiked-on-line...

Who made woke capitalists gods?

1 May 2021 The Australian When Scott Morrison raised the alarm about the rise of identity politics, was he thinking about its ascendancy...

Even conspiracy theorists like David Miller must have freedom of speech

23 February 2001, Spiked I don’t know what’s going on inside the head of Professor David Miller of Bristol University. I do know that he...

Big Brother comes to America

8 February 2021 Experts in the US are calling for the creation of a Reality Czar. They mean a Ministry of Truth. At first I couldn’t...

No, the last days of Trump were not ‘just like Hitler’

For four years, commentators have triviliased the horrors of Nazi Germany to score cheap political points. 20 January 2021 Nothing...

Covid-19: government can’t solve everything

Britain has gone into lockdown. Outwardly it seems that everything has changed. But the reality is different. The cultural patterns of...

Covid-19: stop politicising the pandemic

Throughout history, humanity’s response to major disasters has been shaped by the prevailing attitudes of the day. Our views on the...

The witch hunting of Daniel Kawczynski

The ease with which Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury, was isolated and asked by officials of his party to apologise...

The real lesson of the invasion of Poland

As politicians and pundits commemorate the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland, it is telling that there is more focus on this...

The right to criticise George Soros

Anyone who dares to criticise the billionaire speculator George Soros can expect to be denounced as an anti-Semite. So last week, when...

Thierry Baudet: not your typical populist

The latest challenge to the European Union political oligarchy comes from the Netherlands, where Thierry Baudet and his Forum voor...

Why I’m sceptical about stories exposing Russian antics

I must admit that when I listen to the news or read the papers, I struggle to know what to believe and what to ignore when it comes to...