Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Liberty & Law

Magna Carta-800 years of freedom: A spiked debate
In this inspiring debate arranged by spiked and filmed by WORLDbytes volunteers with students from the University of Connecticut in London, an eminent panel of speakers explain how the gains of the Magna Carta are being undone. They suggest we need a new project for liberty and freedom from the state, not more rights and state protection.
WORLDbytes, 2015

The end of Congress, not the end of the world
Western wailing about ‘fascistic’ Modi reveals a contempt for Indian democracy.
Dolan Cummings, spiked, May 2015

Riots in Baltimore: a crisis of authority
The instability points to a moral vacuum in America’s inner cities.
Sean Collins, spiked, 29 April 2015

New law bans smoking in closed public spaces, nicotine in e-cigarettes
Portugal's government has approved amendments to the law on tobacco that foresee the prohibition of electronic cigarettes containing nicotine and of smoking in all closed public spaces.
TPN/ LUSA, The Portugal News, 25 April 2015

The driverless car and the fall of man
The quest for robotic cars is underwritten by a suspicion of humanity.
Norman Lewis, spiked, 20 April 2015

The PC Terror of the Twittermob
Neil Davenport, spiked, 10 April 2015

Good boobs, Bad boobs: how feminists police women’s bodies
Middle-class breasts on Instagram – good. Big tits in the Sun – bad.
Ella Whelan, spiked, 9 April 2015

What if...? The consequences, challenges and opportunities facing Britain outside the EU
Christopher Howarth, Mats Persson, Pawel Swidlicki, Raoul Ruparel, Stephen Booth, Open Europe, 23 March 2015

On the threat to vapers and vaping in Sweden
Vaping with nicotine in Sweden is now de jure banned following a recent court ruling.
Atakan Befrits, Nicotine Science and Policy, 16 March 2015

Give us the freedom to build our own homes
We need 260,000 new homes a year, and officials won’t build them.
James Heartfield, spiked, March 2015


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