Gareth Roberts

1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Gareth Roberts |Frank Furedi

Blocking roads for trendy causes has become a rite of passage for middle-class irritants. Share Topics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. ‘YOUNG PEOPLE ARE RESISTING’, the website of Youth Demand informs us, breathlessly, announcing the arrival of yet another environmentalist road-blocking protest group – except this one protests about Palestine, too.

1 month ago | spiked-online.com | Gareth Roberts

From the NHS clap-a-longs to slebs singing ‘Imagine’, we nearly drowned in a wave of maudlin claptrap. Share Topics Covid-19 Culture Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. It’s the 5th anniversary of lockdown. Which means it’s the 5th anniversary of the avalanche of maudlin claptrap, the torrent of twee, that accompanied it.

1 month ago | spiked-online.com | Gareth Roberts |Tim Black

If she is remembered at all, it will be as the women’s minister who didn’t know what a woman is. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. That shattering event on Friday last week has upended everything we thought we knew. People rushed to their phones as it happened, furiously texting friends in disbelief at the unbelievable news.

2 months ago | spiked-online.com | Gareth Roberts |Tom Slater

Starmer’s cabinet is stuffed with faceless automatons with barely a proper backstory between them. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Rachel Reeves is in trouble over her CV again. The UK chancellor was already in hot water after her frequent lofty pre-election boasts that she worked as an economist at HBOS.

2 months ago | spiked-online.com | Gareth Roberts

Disgraced football referee David Coote is the latest public figure to try the 'Phillip Schofield defence'. Share Topics Identity Politics Sport UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Football referee David Coote found himself in hot water last November.