Sri Lanka and the global revolt against the laptop elites

From Sri Lanka to the Netherlands, Albania to Canada, the masses are stirring. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 1 year ago

California Is at a Crossroads

Its oligarchic, tech-reliant economy cannot survive for much longer. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 1 year ago

Duty can set us free

Jacob Phillips’ Obedience is Freedom offers a vital defence of loyalty and discipline. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 1 year ago

How the big banks fell to climate panic

HSBC has suspended its most senior risk manager for criticising eco-alarmism. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 1 year ago

Why You Should Never protest outside someone’s home

Pro-choice activists should steer clear of the private residences of Supreme Court justices. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

How the trans ideology dehumanises women

Grace Lavery’s bonkers book shows just how sexist trans thinking has become. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

The Closing of the Artistic Mind

Ceramic artist Claudia Clare has been pushed out of the artworld for expressing her feminist beliefs. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Ukraine and the New World Disorder

The US and Russia are once again trying to decide the future of Europe. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Great art is supposed to be ‘triggering’

The rise of trigger warnings is a threat to artistic freedom. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Free speech has won another victory at Cambridge

When Cambridge University withdrew his invitation to visit, we knew we had to fight back. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Terry Gilliam and the Return of Blacklisting

The Old Vic’s alleged cancellation of Gilliam is a dire assault on artistic freedom. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Universities are turning into ideology mills

Peter Boghossian on why he resigned from Portland State University. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech

An academic has been sacked over tweets calling me a ‘house negro’. This is nothing to celebrate. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Why has Twitter banned Trump but not the Taliban?

The double standards of the Big Tech censors are extraordinary. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Why it’s time to move on from Covid – spiked

The Delta variant may have dashed hopes of herd immunity, but we can still live with the virus. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

Australia's Forever Lockdown

Melbourne has been shut down again over a handful of new Covid cases. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

BLM has made UK race relations worse

Activists, academics and MPs have fuelled division in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 2 years ago

We must repeal our hate-speech laws

Andrew Bridgen MP on the dangers of criminalising offence. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

The billionaire takeover of civil society

Wealthy 'progressives' are shaping political life through a dense web of interconnected NGOs. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

Rowan Atkinson is dead right about cancel culture

The online culture warriors really are the modern equivalent of the medieval mob. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

Lockdown: A deadly, failed experiment – spiked

It has been a global catastrophe. We must never go down this road again. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

Jordan Peterson: How the Left Manufactured a Folk Devil

The hysterical response to Peterson’s latest book is totally disconnected from anything he has actually said. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

Je Suis Samuel

The beheading of a teacher in France is the barbaric logical conclusion to cancel culture. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

Why Has Google Censored the Great Barrington Declaration?

Big Tech now treats any opposition to lockdown as misinformation – even if it’s from eminent scientists. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

Sweden has discredited model responsible for lockdowns

Predictions of mass death never came to pass. It’s now clear we can manage the virus without extreme measures. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

An Argument for Race Abolitionism (2020)

Identity politics has revived racial thinking. It's time to move beyond it. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

The hatred for ‘Karens’ is out of control

The ritualistic humiliation of white women shows how poisonous identity politics has become. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

‘The lockdown is causing so many deaths’ – spiked

Dr Malcolm Kendrick on the disastrous response to Covid-19. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 3 years ago

There is no empirical evidence for the US lockdowns

Comparing US states shows there is no relationship between lockdowns and lower Covid-19 deaths. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

Chloe Middleton did not have coronavirus

The 21-year-old’s tragic death has not been recorded as due to Covid-19. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

How woke illiberalism is killing the academy

The University of Chicago was always a bastion of free speech. But even there, freedom is now under threat. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

The EU: a menace to internet freedom

Two recent ECJ rulings have serious global consequences for internet freedom. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

The only problem with democracy is that there's not enough of it

The only problem with democracy is that there is not enough of it. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

HTTPS: //www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/06/in-praise-of-john-ruskin/

In the bicentennial of his birth, Ruskin remains out of favour. It’s time to correct that. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

The turn against motherhood – Why it has become fashionable not to have children

Why it has become fashionable not to have children. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

If the state had treated people equally, none of this would have happened

Eamon Melaugh on the Battle of the Bogside and the birth of the Troubles. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

Noble causes turn people into monsters

People can do terrible things when they’re convinced they are on the side of good. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

The Futility of Generation Wars

Boomer-bashing doesn’t only insult older people – it hurts young people, too. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

French Colonialism Lives on in Africa

The CFA franc is a monetary union that subjugates African states to French economic interests. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 4 years ago

The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

In 1950s California, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti took on the censors – and won. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 5 years ago

Sark Is a World Apart

A journey into the weirdest and most wonderful of the Channel Islands. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 5 years ago

Why won’t Westerners condemn Sharia law?

Brunei’s anti-gay brutality didn’t come out of thin air. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 5 years ago

About Neoliberalism

It is the fear of the nation state as a democratic force that underpins the neoliberal project. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 5 years ago

How kids’ lit became misery lit

Adventure stories are out; tales of woe and stress and illness are in. | Continue reading


@spiked-online.com | 5 years ago