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 ...

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 ...

This happened to me when I saw The Great ADHD Myth? on Channel 4 recently. I spent years training to work with children with special educational needs (SENs) like ADHD and, for over 10 years, I worked ...

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 memory-holing of Mitchell and Webb tells us the BBC are the baddies 22nd September 2026 ...

The teens burning schools, assaulting police and glorifying Islamist terrorists are not protesting about class sizes.

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

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Alan Dershowitz on the left after 7 October, the rise of Islamist entryism and the new anti-Semitism. spiked is funded by ...

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

In the name of fighting ‘foreign disinformation’, Brussels wants to control what citizens read, think and say.