I sent this email to the editor of the spiked blog, because I reckon they’re not as free thinking as they think they are!

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G’day guys,

I just came across spiked for the first time today. According to your What is spiked? page, spiked  is:

… waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism in all their ancient and modern forms.

I like that!

But when I started to read, at the top of the list, the articles on abortion I found that all of them - well, all the ones I read, anyway - were toeing the conventional line that women have the right to abortion. Not one writer had the courage or the insight to take a different line, one that concerned itself with the rights of the infant being destroyed. So what’s so free thinking about that? What’s so rational about that? In what way is presenting only one side of a debate unprejudiced? Its exactly the same line as being taken in all the mainline press. You have contributed nothing new at all.

I like the idea of alternative views getting an airing, and maybe on your other topics they do. But on this one, as far as I can see, spiked just toes the same old destructive line that the mainline press does and thereby fails the test of being truly free thinking.

Thanks

Willem Schultink

Geelong
Australia.