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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Hugo Timms |Tom Slater |Tim Black
The snobbish killjoys of Edinburgh Council have branded fans of the Gallaghers as fat, drunken louts.
Share Topics Culture UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Local councils across the UK now seem incapable of performing many of the tasks they’re paid to do, from rubbish collection to road maintenance.
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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Josh Howie |Tom Slater |Tim Black
The March to Gaza was a Fyre Festival for the West's activist class.
Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In April 2017, thousands of wealthy Westerners headed to the Bahamas for Fyre, a luxury music festival. They expected villas and meals from celebrity chefs. What they got was soaked tents and cheese sandwiches.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Tim Black |Matt Ridley
The Trump administration has too many chuckleheads and too few people of substance.
Share Topics Politics USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. It is a security cock-up of monumental proportions.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Joanna Williams |Tim Black
Too many politicians assume we can’t be trusted to bring up our own children.
Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Labour’s contempt for parents becomes clearer by the day.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Frank Furedi |Tim Black
EU leaders can’t defend their own borders, let alone Ukraine’s.
Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The last time European states were embarking on rearmament, we were well down the road towards a world war. This time, it’s the war in Ukraine and the unravelling of the Western military alliance that are driving European rearmament.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Tom Slater |Tim Black
These outrageous new sentencing guidelines show how racial paternalism corrodes justice.
Share Topics Identity Politics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Who made Ibram X Kendi prime minister? Everywhere you look, the racialism perfected by America’s insufferable ‘anti-racists’ continues to wash over British institutions.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Brendan O'Neill |Tim Black
Remember when the phrase ‘the Resistance’ would conjure up visions of sexy French youths in berets battling actual Nazis? Now all it brings to mind is ageing dullards in pink suits holding up signs saying ‘This is not normal’ while sporting the most turbo-smug look on their faces. As US president Donald Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress last night, ‘across the aisle the Resistance was stirring’, gushed the Guardian’s DC reporter.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Fraser Myers |Tim Black
Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Keir Starmer has promised to ‘’ as part of his government’s efforts to secure peace in Ukraine and to bolster the UK’s own national defences. Re-arming must go hand in hand with reindustrialisation, the UK prime minister argued in the House of Commons yesterday, because ‘economic security is national security’.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Brendan O'Neill |Tim Black
I love it when the Guardian’s mask slips. When its veil of pained concern for the poor falls away to reveal the classist sneer beneath. There was a delicious instance last week in a rave review of Ash Sarkar’s new book, Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War. With ‘punch and panache’, the reviewer gushed, Ms Sarkar shows how the ‘agents provocateurs’ of ‘the right-wing press’ have manipulated ‘the lower orders’ and made them ‘[abandon] class war for the culture wars’.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
spiked-online.com | Joel Kotkin |Tim Black
Voters are tired of failed ‘progressive’ dogmas, even in the Democrats’ urban heartlands. But will the party listen?
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