These petty laws are an insult to the public

‘The real enemy is humanity itself’

‘I’ve never seen people smiling so broadly’

Sorry, but SYRIZA won’t save Europe

Revisiting ‘Midnight in the Century’

‘I am happy to call myself a Bolshevik’

A respectable riot against tabloid readers

Pirate Party: giving politics a jolly roger

Give food labelling the red light

Gay marriage: redrawing the American political map

Why I’m coming out… against gay marriage

Why the Hollygarchy *hearts* gay marriage

The petty politics of the anti-inequality brigade

Thank you, Maurice Sendak

Homeland: Fear and self-loathing in America

It’s time to knock out the Europa League

It’s not just sex gangs who abuse ‘white trash’

A bad tan doesn’t equal a bad parent

This defamation bill is no friend of freedom

Posturing against austerity: an infantile disorder

Beware the celebrity troll-hunters

It’s time to bury Peace Studies

The Incredible Shrinking Mandate

A Boris in every city? No thanks

The catfight over the capital

Masses duped by greenwash? Get real!

Roy Hodgson: the right man for England

Getting by without a little help from Friends

London election: we’re ‘aving a ‘mare!

There’s no such thing as a natural drought

Sticking up for scientific research

A battle to save France from her non-existent foes

And the gold for defiance goes to…

Airbrushed ads don’t make you sick

The rationing of medical treatment is really sick

Why Occupy and the church cling together

Can state schools emulate Eton?

Obama vs Romney: who do you hate least?

‘International justice’ is no justice at all

We don’t want to be ‘empowered’, thanks

The divided state of America

Ordinary Americans don’t need the left’s pity

Is America committing ‘superpower suicide’?

Lessons from the new food priesthood

We are not all mentally ill now

Amanda Craig’s not-so-novel take on immigration

The hunger for a simpler, black-and-white world

Imagining a world where no one can be trusted

Is Murdoch really a lizard in a suit?

Barcelona are crying out for Andy Carroll

Will it be au revoir to ’Allo, ‘Allo?

Audience charming in the Yemen

History and politics are never a ‘High Court’ matter

Greece: a police state made by the EU

A nation of cake-loving racists?

Who made Jamie Oliver the Emperor of Eating?

Old moralism in new packaging

Monkey see, monkey smoke?

What’s really behind the crisis in caring?

Abu Qatada and the farcical fearmongers

Is autism just another identity?

It’s not just the truants bunking off education

The hunger for a simpler, black-and-white world

Controversy makes the football go round

So long Ceefax, I shall miss you

The oddball charm of a Nazi-hunting goth

It isn’t only Breivik who’s on trial in Oslo

The imperial narcissism of the F1 boycotters

The National Trust’s imagination deficit

Ken vs Boris? What a letdown for London

Inequality: a middle-class obsession

The right to be wildly unpopular

Hands off the Grand National

Instagram, Kodak and the end of innovation

Don’t ban it. Get over it!

The snobbery of the anti-Titanic crew

This linguistic engineering invades our lives and loves

Where have all the pink dollars gone?

Shooting down the official ‘truth’ about Rwanda

Is America committing ‘superpower suicide’?

For once, Alan Davies is right

Getting off on TV dating shows

Taking Titanic seriously will end in disaster

Let’s liberate youth from the grip of welfare

Who benefits from housing handouts?

Mike Daisey and the great Foxconn con

Panorama and the toxic BBC culture

In America, atheists are still in the closet

Why Syrians should say no to Annan

This isn’t politics, it’s accountancy

It is time we burst this ‘bubbling’

The rappers giving the finger to fatalism

The Passion of the New Atheists?

Why the hate for Samantha Brick?

Farewell then, Heather Trott and Harry Hill

Football’s three priorities: goals, goals, goals

A life-affirming rhapsody on the death penalty

The birth of democracy in Burma? Sadly not

We don’t need no grade inflation

Children need education, not qualifications