What other country criminalises its flags, denigrates its culture and self-flagellates over its history like we do?

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The financial stakes in AI are enormous. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that AI technologies will add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. When the stock bubble inevitably bursts, the ...

Brendan O’Neill joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the Greens’ ...

There is no legal, moral or political case for giving up these vital islands and paying Mauritius for the pleasure. Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. The Labour government’s ...

But even the most skilled actor cannot override biological reality. If we see a female face – and hear a female voice – when ...

Zack Polanski has failed to hypnotise the people of Holborn and St Pancras. In last night’s by-election, Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali comfortably beat the Green leader, with 12,292 votes to 8,928, to keep ...

Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Three words in a video that did the rounds last month made my skin crawl: ‘Don’t be deceived.’ They might sound perfectly innocent at first ...

Having spent years fanning themselves with a copy of the Guardian every time a ‘gammon’ with an England tattoo walked by, now ...

The anthropologist Mary Douglas once noted of taboos: ‘Without the taboos, which turn basic classifications into automatic psychological reflexes, no thinking could be effective, because if every ...

In what one union boss has called an act of ‘electoral suicide’, Andy Burnham has used his conference speech to propose ...

There is a positive and negative way of looking at Thursday’s by-election in Holborn and St Pancras. The positive is that, ...