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Proving Nothing -- By: Brendan O'Neill

How’s this for embarrassing?   On October 22, Britain’s secretary of state for climate change, Ed Miliband, helped to launch a new exhibition called “Prove It!” at the venerable Science Museum in London. The exhibition promised to offer visitors “all ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, National Review Online,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ed Miliband,  Royal Society

Wearing thermals won't save the planet

It never ceases to amaze me that people who say we can "save the planet" by wearing a jumper or growing our own veg are treated with the utmost seriousness, while those who argue that tackling climate change might require some larger-scale projects – ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Royal Society,  Philip K. Dick,  Roberta Smith,  McDonald's

Disturbing the Peace

“Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, Reason,  31 Jul 2009

Related Topics: George Orwell

The O'Reilly Factor

Did Fox News host Bill O'Reilly kill abortion provider Dr. George Tiller? Reading some of today's outraged commentary by pro-choice writers in both America and Britain, you could be forgiven for thinking so. Scott Roeder might be suspected of actually ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, Reason,  1 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Bill O'Reilly

Scotland's petty prohibition

Who could possibly be against the Scottish National Party's proposal to impose a minimum price at which alcohol can be sold, in order to make cheap booze harder to come by? Well, I could. The SNP's plan has been discussed as a reasonable – even bold ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Mar 2009

Related Topics: Nicola Sturgeon,  BBC

Pantomime liberals

Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England Nick Cohen Fourth Estate, 383pp, Ł12.99 Somewhere in this fat, wordy tome is a thin, sensible book trying to get out. This 383-page collection of Nick Cohen's columns and essays for ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, New Statesman,  19 Feb 2009

Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Yusuf al-Qaradawi,  Al-Qaeda,  Gamal Abdel Nasser

Brendan O'Neill: Asking the Irish to vote again on the Lisbon treaty is arrogant, insulting and undemocratic

Imagine if, following the election of Barack Obama by 52.9% of American voters, the Republican party, which got just 45.7% of votes, demanded another election. Imagine if the Republicans described Obama's victory as a "triumph of ignorance" – brought ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, Comment Is Free,  13 Dec 2008

Related Topics: European Commission,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  George Galloway,  Margot Wallström (politician)

Brendan O'Neill on the people telling you to be thrifty

Brendan O'Neill: Don't worry about losing your job or home. The recession will make you a better person. Just ask a highly-paid ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Nov 2008

Related Topics: Ben Okri,  George Monbiot

In a class of his own

Alan Sillitoe rose from abject poverty to become one of our best novelists. At the age of 80, he is still writing and free from miserable fatalism. All the future is foretold, but freedom of choice is given to everyone: Sillitoe in 1968 "I am me and ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, New Statesman,  30 Oct 2008

Brendan O'Neill: Let's do away with the Advertising Standards Authority

Brendan O'Neill: Our unelected, pompous advertising watchdog has got away with naked censorship for far too ...

From BRENDAN O'NEILL, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Oct 2008

Related Topics: ASA Limited,  Tony Blair

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