Lauren Smith

3 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Lauren Smith |Tom Slater

The uber-posh eco-irritants have promised to hang up the hi-viz and put away the soup. Share Topics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. So farewell then, Just Stop Oil. To the relief of just about everyone, the climate cretins announced this week that they are ending their protests and ‘hanging up the hi-vis’.

4 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Lauren Smith |Matt Ridley

Should foreign paedophiles be granted asylum in the UK? Incredibly, according to Britain’s immigration judges, armed with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the answer seems to be a resounding yes. A Pakistani man who assaulted a teenage girl has been allowed to remain in Britain, it emerged today, because he is an alcoholic. Apparently, deporting him to his native Pakistan would breach his human rights, as it would lead to him receiving ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’.

1 month ago | spiked-online.com | Lauren Smith |Tom Slater |Fraser Myers

Is punching someone in the face a less serious crime than sharing offensive jokes on WhatsApp? This seems to be the view of the British justice system, at least if this week’s sentencing of former Labour MP Mike Amesbury is anything to go by. Back in October, Amesbury, who is now an independent MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was captured on CCTV brawling with a man in the street. The altercation began as a drunken row between Amesbury and one of his constituents.

2 months ago | spiked-online.com | Lauren Smith |Brendan O'Neill

The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution is now a world leader in NIMBYism, bureaucracy and green tape. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Britain was once a nation that built things. Britain sparked the Industrial Revolution. Britain invented the steam engine, then the steam train.

2 months ago | spiked-online.com | Lauren Smith |Brendan O'Neill

Proposals to dumb down exams to help ethnic-minority students are patronising and insulting. Share Topics Identity Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. There are times when, in attempting to bend over backwards to be as ‘anti-racist’ as possible, you can end up coming across as pretty damn racist.