Arizona's harsh immigration laws are being pioneered or supported by local leaders who have a political motive or financial stake in incarcerating and detaining as many prisoners or immigrants as possible
British local media is in trouble, we need a much more lively and intelligent approach than just government cuts and schemes imported from the US
Can the underdog snatch the crown with a last minute surge? Will the second preferences swing it? With only a few days left of voting the country awaits with baited breath the outcome of....
There was a fascinating response from former Labour minister Stephen Timms MP at the weekend to a speech made by Baroness Warsi last week criticising Labour in Government for undermining “the positive power of faith” and suggesting that the Coalition government would "do God"
The importance of the Pope's visit, or is it the unimportance, which if so would itself be significant is that it is a matter of State.
There's a particularly witty hashtag doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment which I couldn't resist sharing. The spikedinthe18thcentury tweets involve mock-headlines that can be enjoyed by anyone with a passing knowledge of the 18th century and Spiked's bizarre brand of posturing contrarianism.
Having published two books about Blair, John Morrison was interested to find out if what he had written about the psychology of the former Prime Minister fitted the self-portrait to be found of The Journey.
The attacks on US market provision of high-quality programming by defenders of the BBC, exemplified by Steve Barnett's response to David Graham's Adam Smith Institute paper, are misguided and misleading. Despite differences between the US and UK, we still have much to learn from US TV, argues Davi
During perestroika Russians flocked to documentary films to find out about their ‘lost’ history. Then they lost interest, which suited the authorities. Now there is just a glimmer of hope that the situation is improving, says the celebrated documentary film maker Vitaly Mansky in conversation with
Whatever else may be beyond our control, we are all free to choose which 9/11 moves us most deeply
Every online dating candidate is visible, in unsparing detail, to every other. The chances of finding the right person now look very high, and the risks of making a mistake vanishingly low. Where once we might have met some hundreds of potential partners during our life, now we can meet millions.
Rationalist humanism goes beyond scientism
