Recent (and fairly recent) Spiked articles...

One of the purposes of this blog was to publish 'think piece' articles outside of spiked. However, as spiked has become broader in what it wants to publish (articles on Ted Chippington, anyone?), this humble blog has fallen slightly by the wayside. For those who've missed 'em, my spiked articles in 2007 began with a piece called Testing Time For Literacy which examined how New Labour instrumentalism is destroying student's appetite for writing well. This was followed by an article examining the lamentable Celebrity Big Brother/Jade Goody farrago with Time To Evict Official Anti-Racism, which has probably generated more letters than anything else I've penned for spiked so far.

Speaking of letters, a policeman responded to my article Wannabe A Worker by saying that, hey, coppers are 'worker's too' (something which the old left idiotically rehearsed as well). A few days latter I was nonplussed by the BBC's new post-This Life drama Party Animals, but delighted that Eighties comedian Ted Chippington had made a return. Sticking with the West Midlands, the day after I was reporting on why a Tipton pub was Sticking With Its Un-PC Pie. The week after I was laughing uproariously at Dopey Dave Cameron for his yooful cannabis antics, while once again writing incredulously about the anti-Tesco lobby.

In March I argued that the government's anti-lone parents reforms was fuelled by something other than fiscal bean counting in Why They Won't Leave Lone Parents Alone, while my response to the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade was to say it would Chain Black Youth To Victim Culture. Finally, I reckoned that Alan Johnson's (nothing to do with Peep Show...) proposals to fine school/college drop outs was Another Fine Mess By The Education Authorities. Shameless self-promotion, for sure, but surely that's what the vanity publishing world of blogs are all about?