What about ‘the huddled masses’?
While New York celebrates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, America shows little desire to welcome immigrants. On 28 October New York City marked the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of...
View ArticleThe adventures of Tintin censorship
More often than not these days the name Tintin is followed by “racist”. Sure enough, in Tintin in the Congo, written in 1930 by the Belgian George Remi, Africans are depicted as submissive and simple...
View ArticleTobacco haters, kickyour filthy habit
Boston’s ban on e-cigarettes shows what’s really driving the war on smoking: a weird desire to re-engineer our lifestyles. Seven years have passed since Massachusetts became the sixth US state to...
View ArticleFreedom of religion isnot a right-wing thing
The debate about Obama’s ruling on birth control in healthcare packages shows that many liberals are now worryingly sniffy about religious liberty. Why, in America, has the defence of religious freedom...
View ArticleA “two-fingered salute”to the Leveson Inquiry
As the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press trundles on, online magazine spiked launches an “intellectual two-fingered salute to the creeping conformism and...
View ArticleSwedes hit streets in fightfor right to dance
Over 1,000 dance enthusiasts took to the streets of Stockholm on Saturday in protest against Sweden’s dance license laws. Unperturbed by the rainy weather and waving placards with slogans like “shake...
View ArticleLinderborgs inkonsekvens gör extremisterna till martyrer
För ett år sedan försvarade Aftonbladets kulturredaktör Åsa Linderborg förintelseförnekaren David Irvings rätt att publicera sig. Idag låter det annorlunda. Tidningens kulturredaktion har med sin...
View ArticleWhy we should chill outabout ‘illegals’
In Sweden, the police have joined forces with the Migration Board and the Prison and Probation Service to clamp down on illegal immigration. This joint project, called Reva (an acronym in Swedish of...
View ArticleProtests over Danish ban on shechita
There were strong reactions from both Jewish and Muslim communities in Denmark after the Danish government decided to ban ritual slaughter. Agriculture and Food Minister Dan Jørgensen signed a...
View ArticleEfter curlandet – nu blir barnen frigående
Curlingföräldrarna som hämtar, lämnar, skjutsar och handlar åt sina barn in i vuxen ålder har fått utstå en hel del hån. Kritiker säger att de som verkligen far illa av det överbeskyddande samhället är...
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