Rob Lyons

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Rob Lyons

Rob Lyons is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmentalist LM network. He is past deputy editor of Spiked, science and technology director of the Institute of Ideas and website registrant for Spiked, Sense About Science, the Battle of Ideas, the website of Frank Furedi (frankfuredi.com), Future Cities, Precautionary Tales (precautionarytales.net) and Terrorism Research (terrorismresearch.net). His topics of interest include science and health issues, particularly the 'panic' about obesity, debates about the environment - particularly what to do about waste - and the 'moralisation' of everyday life.

Lyons studied for a BA inLaw and Psychology at Keele University (1986-90).

Affiliations

• Spiked
• Institute of Ideas – editor of the Parents Forum

Publications

Spiked

2001

• Rob Lyons, 'The Zen of ADSL', Spiked, 24 April 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist: Day Two', Spiked, 9 May 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist: Day Three', Spiked, 10 May 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist: Day Seven', Spiked, 14 May 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist: Day Eight', Spiked, 15 May 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist: Day 11', Spiked, 18 May 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'Asylum: enforcing discrimination', Spiked, 22 May 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'Cleaning up cricket', Spiked, 25 May 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-proposals: IT', Spiked, 7 June 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'No turn-ups on turnout', Spiked, 7 June 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'A vote against politics', Spiked, 22 June 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'Pitch invasions: they're just cricket', Spiked, 22 June 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'All eyes on Brass Eye', Spiked, 31 August 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 12 October 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 19 October 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 2 November 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 9 November 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 7 December 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 20 December 2001.
• Rob Lyons, 'New Year 2002: Where's the party?', Spiked, 28 December 2001.

2002

• Rob Lyons, 'Dog's dinner in South Korea', Spiked, 1 February 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 14 February 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked-geist', Spiked, 27 February 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'Over the moon' in June, Spiked, 28 March 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'Sing when you’re winning', Spiked, 20 June 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'Life's a riot in Nara', Spiked, 2 July 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'Clocking off', Spiked, 20 August 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'Putting Zambia through the mill', Spiked, 13 September 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'Lack of nerve gas', Spiked, 21 November 2002.
• Rob Lyons, 'Happy New Fear', Spiked, 30 December 2002.

2003

• Rob Lyons, 'Survivor stories', Spiked, 17 April 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'WHO's to blame for the SARS panic?', Spiked, 20 May 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Eurovision loses its focus', Spiked, 22 May 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Weight watchers', Spiked, 25 June 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Hot air', Spiked, 14 July 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Barbecue panic - transcript from the Today programme', Spiked, 30 July 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Too many people?', Spiked, 5 August 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'A viral hurricane?', Spiked, 19 August 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Thinking outside the lunchbox', Spiked, 3 September 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Shooting the messenger', Spiked, 23 September 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Ship of doom?', Spiked, 4 November 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Weighing the arguments', Spiked, 6 November 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Try again', Spiked, 28 November 2003.
• Rob Lyons, 'Global warnings', Spiked, 18 December 2003.

2004

• Rob Lyons, 'Start spreading the blues', Spiked, 22 January 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'A poultry problem?', Spiked, 6 February 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'A waste of time', Spiked, 2 April 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK, 21 May', Spiked, 21 May 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'A diet of hysteria', Spiked, 28 May 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'An epidemic of epidemiology', Spiked, 25 June 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 25 June 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 2 July 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'You aren’t what you eat', Spiked, 30 July 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK', Spiked, 20 August 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK', Spiked, 27 August 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Being seen to be green', Spiked, 8 December 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 10 September 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 16 September 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK', Spiked, 1 October 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK', Spiked, 15 October 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK', Spiked, 21 October 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Saturday night, Sunday mourning', Spiked, 28 October 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Waste: a burning issue', Spiked, 22 December 2004.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 29 December 2004.

2005

• Rob Lyons, 'Excessive precaution is unnecessary and may be harmful', Spiked, 17 January 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside, 20 January', Spiked, 20 January 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Falling down', Spiked, 27 January 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 27 January 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Cool heads required', Spiked, 11 February 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Making a meal out of school dinners', Spiked, 25 February 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Hard to swallow', Spiked, 18 March 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Dinner Lady', Spiked, 13 April 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK', Spiked, 28 April 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Nil points for Eurovision whiners', Spiked, 27 May 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Fat and fiction', Spiked, 10 June 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 17 June 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'The fag-end of public policy', Spiked, 24 June 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Olympics: Let the real Games begin', Spiked, 6 July 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'TV UK', Spiked, 22 July 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Enjoying the fruits (and veg) of an affluent life', Spiked, 5 August 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Rumblings at Heathrow', Spiked, 23 August 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Fat chance of making kids healthier', Spiked, 7 September 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 9 September 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 15 September 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Grounded by low horizons', Spiked, 23 September 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Battle of Walter’s Heckle', Spiked, 29 September 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 30 September 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Global warming treaty goes cold', Spiked, 4 November 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Greenhouse kids throw a tantrum', Spiked, 14 November 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'George Best: grief shouldn’t be a national sport', Spiked, 28 November 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Mobile phones and health, information and fear', Spiked, 6 December 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'What about a Routemaster for the twenty-first century?', Spiked, 9 December 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'Keeping Kyoto on life support', Spiked, 13 December 2005.
• Rob Lyons, 'No room at the inn for smokers', Spiked, 23 December 2005.

2006

• Rob Lyons, 'Time to tear up the Sex Offenders Register?', Spiked, 13 January 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Wailing for ourselves', Spiked, 24 January 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'How to Live Longer', Spiked, 27 January 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Guilt by emission', Spiked, 31 January 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Smoking out the facts', Spiked, 16 February 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Bird flu: an infectious panic', Spiked, 23 February 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Press the Poliak-off button', Spiked, 3 March 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Do we need another hosepipe ban?', Spiked, 16 March 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Double-glazing over', Spiked, 23 March 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Kyoto and a climate of moralism', Spiked, 30 March 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Are packed lunches the ‘biggest evil’?', Spiked, 6 April 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Offside', Spiked, 20 April 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Climate change: a model cock-up', Spiked, 20 April 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'From King of Chavs to object of pity', Spiked, 27 April 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Low rainfall, lower horizons', Spiked, 26 May 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Pay As You Eat', Spiked, 8 June 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Swiss cheesy humour', Spiked, 16 June 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'More pussycats than Three Lions', Spiked, 3 July 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Bin these authoritarian policies', Spiked, 12 July 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Blair’s unhealthy political vision', Spiked, 28 July 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Mini-motos: from fad to panic in record time', Spiked, 7 August 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Filling a gap', Spiked, 17 August 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Crikey! He was only a TV presenter', Spiked, 7 September 2006.
• Rob Lyons, Jamie Oliver: what a ‘tosser’, Spiked, 18 September 2006.
• Rob Lyons, ‘I want to hear human voices reacting to something’, Spiked, 2 October 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Mums who sell junk food? Arrest them', Spiked, 4 October 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'A liberal porn movie', Spiked, 10 October 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'How to become SPOTY', Spiked, 19 October 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'What ever happened to humane medicine?', Spiked, 24 October 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'The ‘school meals revolution’: a dog’s dinner', Spiked, 9 November 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Queen’s speech: an appointment with fear', Spiked, 14 November 2006.
• Rob Lyons, 'Still not ‘ethical’ after all these years', Spiked, 1 December 2006.
• Rob Lyons, Frost/Nixon: 'An intellectual Rocky', Spiked, 3 December 2006.

2007

• Rob Lyons, 'The truth about organic food', Spiked, 9 January 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'A diet of misinformation', Spiked, 26 January 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why the Home Office can't keep its house in order', Spiked, 31 January 2007.
• Rob Lyons, ‘Your planet needs you!’, Spiked, 5 February 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Peckham: a suburb apart?', Spiked, 13 February 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'HFEA in 'sensible decision' shock!', Spiked, 22 February 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Weighing into family life', Spiked, 27 February 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Lib Dems: riding the waves of anti-political cynicism', Spiked, 6 March 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...Prince Charles?', Spiked, 13 March 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'The bear necessities of climate change politics', Spiked, 16 March 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...Snoop Dogg?', Spiked, 27 March 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'The poverty of politics', Spiked, 30 March 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Live Earth: change the record', Spiked, 12 April 2007.
• Rob Lyons, The IPCC goes looking for bad news', Spiked, 23 April 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...toilet paper?', Spiked, 24 April 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Getting teary-eyed over 1966', Spiked, 27 April 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...wi-fi?', Spiked, 22 May 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...drink-driving?', Spiked, 30 May 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Lewis Hamilton: the new king of Bore-mula One', Spiked, 15 June 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'How the left is living off Latin America', Spiked, 18 June 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...Manhunt 2?', Spiked, 26 June 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Live Earth: a global pulpit of pop sanctimony', Spiked, 10 July 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'A 'fat tax'? Get stuffed', Spiked, 17 July 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...plastic bags?', Spiked, 17 July 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Ealing Southall: a comedy of errors', Spiked, 19 July 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'The war on obesity is a war on the poor', Spiked, 26 July 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...patio heaters?', Spiked, 30 July 2007.
• Rob Lyons, Branding parents 'deceitful', Spiked, 2 August 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Philip Lawrence: hard cases make bad law', Spiked, 22 August 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Amir Khan’s reality-TV therapy: no knockout', Spiked, 23 August 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...rubbish?', Spiked, 29 August 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'An ego-trip dressed up as an eco-trip', Spiked, 30 August 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'The human footprint isn’t big enough', Spiked, 4 September 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...packed lunches?', Spiked, 6 September 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...Jim Davidson?', Spiked, 12 September 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...food additives?', Spiked, 18 September 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Liberal Democrats: same 'old' story', Spiked, 19 September 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...Jeremy Kyle?', Spiked, 2 October 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'A trolley load of food fears', Spiked, 11 October 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'The dangers of fried food and a fried planet', Spiked, 17 October 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...packaging?', Spiked, 23 October 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Toilets for all! A brief history of the WC', Spiked, 30 October 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...bacon?', Spiked, 1 November 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'A fit of peak', Spiked, 12 November 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'IPCC: separating fact from fright', Spiked, 19 November 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Lack of development: that's the real disaster', Spiked, 28 November 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Bali: no more jaw-jaw, this is climate war', Spiked, 6 December 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Boxing: it’s not a tickling contest', Spiked, 10 December 2007.
• Rob Lyons, '...Greenland melting?', Spiked, 13 December 2007.
• Rob Lyons, 'Hairshirt posturing vs everyday reality', Spiked, 18 December 2007.

2008

• Rob Lyons, 'Earth: a man-made morality tale', Spiked, 3 January 2008.
• Rob Lyons, Let's call a ceasefire in the 'war on obesity', Spiked, 24 January 2008.
• Rob Lyons, ‘Bin the bag’: the bizarre cause célèbre, Spiked, 30 January 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Cheaper chickens: a slap in the face of food snobs', Spiked, 7 February 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Keeping a cool head about hot weather', Spiked, 13 February 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Choking on the congestion charge', Spiked, 28 February 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Food Price Crisis: the world won’t starve just yet', Spiked, 13 March 2008.
• Rob Lyons, Why there’s no mileage in ‘food miles’, Spiked, 27 March 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Who will defend processed food?', Spiked, 28 March 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Who killed Henri Paul?', Spiked, 8 April 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Taxing times for Gordon Brown', Spiked, 9 April 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'A bloody exciting sport', Spiked, 11 April 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Food price crisis: feasting on apocalyptic porn', Spiked, 15 April 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Small is not beautiful', Spiked, 23 April 2008.
• Rob Lyons, ‘The wickedness of man was great in the earth’, Spiked, 8 May 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Seasonal food only? F*** off, Gordon', Spiked, 13 May 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Duchess vs ‘white trash’ Britain', Spiked, 21 May 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Nul points for Terry Wogan’s outburst', Spiked, 27 May 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Witch-hunting smokers out of polite society', Spiked, 4 June 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Gone, Baby, Gone: who’s fit to be a parent?', Spiked, 12 June 2008.
• Rob Lyons, ‘It’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, with swearing’, Spiked, 18 June 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'The crazy world of England’s smoking ban', Spiked, 3 July 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'GM: it’s safe, but it’s not a saviour', Spiked, 7 July 2008.
• Rob Lyons, ‘The only certain thing is the science is uncertain’, Spiked, 24 July 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Copernicus of the diet debate?', Spiked, 25 July 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Decriminalise all drugs now, but don’t celebrate them', Spiked, 30 July 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Kingsnorth: a camp of uncritical conformity', Spiked, 6 August 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'spiked’s Top 10 Olympic moments', Spiked, 8 August 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'From food to sex: defend spontaneity', Spiked, 12 August 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Medicine: the good, the bad and the ugly', Spiked, 14 August 2008.
• Rob Lyons, A disgusting example of ‘junk television’, Spiked, 15 August 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Drive this careless law off the statute books', Spiked, 21 August 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'The end of food? Don’t swallow it', Spiked, 29 August 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Wanted for crimes against free expression', Spiked, 3 September 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Food prices: don’t turn a drama into a crisis', Spiked, 11 September 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Lehman Brothers: when confidence runs out', Spiked, 16 September 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Time to shoot down this anti-human outlook', Spiked, 24 September 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'An endless diet of government intervention', Spiked, 25 September 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Jamie Oliver’s unpalatable ministry to the poor', Spiked, 1 October 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Down with the filthy rich misanthropes', Spiked, 9 October 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Liberty vs liberty', Spiked, 16 October 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Massaging capitalism rather than managing the crisis', Spiked, 13 November 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'We have nothing to loos but our chains', Spiked, 19 November 2008.
• Rob Lyons, ‘There’s a lot of rich people backing this cause’, Spiked, 21 November 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'New Labour: it’s not dead yet', Spiked, 26 November 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Low-carbon Britain: a pointless distraction', Spiked, 3 December 2008.
• Rob Lyons, ‘There’s a lot of rich people backing this cause’, Spiked, 5 December 2008.
• Rob Lyons, 'Honk if you support the voters of Manchester', Spiked, 16 December 2008.
• Rob Lyons, '2008: the year of living dangerously?', Spiked, 23 December 2008.

2009

• Rob Lyons, India’s ‘festival of first-time fliers’, Spiked, 15 January 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'In this film, it’s every Slumdog for himself', Spiked, 27 January 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'A dimestore novel that reveals India’s beating heart', Spiked, 30 January 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Frost/Nixon: Rocky for intellectuals', Spiked, 4 February 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Turning salt into Public Enemy No.1', Spiked, 5 February 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'ITV sport: putting the Tic Tacs into tactics', Spiked, 6 February 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Bashing the bankers will make you go blind', Spiked, 12 February 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why It’s Not Our Fault. Honest.', Spiked, 24 February 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The death of community is greatly exaggerated', Spiked, 27 February 2009.
• Rob Lyons, Seeing red over ‘Fred the Shred’, Spiked, 3 March 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Punishing us for that packet of Maltesers', Spiked, 16 March 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The ‘sustainable development’ con', Spiked, 31 March 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Calorie-counting is an eating disorder', Spiked, 8 April 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'A campaign to switch off modern society', Spiked, 16 April 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'A downturn in imaginative thinking', Spiked, 23 April 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The deification of Earth', Spiked, 24 April 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Swine flu: official panic is making things worse', Spiked, 30 April 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Euro-kitsch, fame and growing up', Spiked, 8 May 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'James Lovelock’s deification of Earth', Spiked, 15 May 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The neverending war on the white stuff', Spiked, 20 May 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'What’s behind today’s epidemic of epidemics?', Spiked, 29 May 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'No party has a divine right to exist', Spiked, 1 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The man who should never have been PM', Spiked, 4 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Kaká: small name, big transfer fee', Spiked, 5 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The myth of a far-right surge', Spiked, 8 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The fishy message of The End of the Line', Spiked, 9 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'What’s behind today’s epidemic of epidemics?', Spiked, 12 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The new c-word in British politics: cuts', Spiked, 17 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Climate change horror: the UK will be like Provence', Spiked, 22 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Puritanism disguised as science', Spiked, 26 June 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Desperately seeking an economic revival', Spiked, 2 July 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Let’s have a bonfire of the quangos', Spiked, 8 July 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The bunkum of Body Mass Index', Spiked, 22 July 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Fiddling with loans while Rome burns', Spiked, 28 July 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Question everything — even environmentalism', Spiked, 31 July 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Organic food and unhealthy snobbery', Spiked, 3 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'We need planes, trains and automobiles', Spiked, 6 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Copenhagen climate deal would be no fairytale', Spiked, 12 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Health wars: six myths about the NHS debate', Spiked, 17 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, ‘We’re in the killing Nazis business’, Spiked, 20 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Lockerbie: what’s justice got to do with it?', Spiked, 21 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Cameron’s Tories: the heirs to Blairism', Spiked, 25 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Question everything - even environmentalism', Spiked, 28 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The junk science behind the war on junk food', Spiked, 2 September 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Cycling: the Battle of the Panics', Spiked, 9 September 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Could England actually win the World Cup?', Spiked, 11 September 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Norman Borlaug, RIP', Spiked, 14 September 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The backward attacks on Norman Borlaug', Spiked, 21 September 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The austerity auction', Spiked, 22 September 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'A blame game you can bank on', Spiked, 29 September 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Audley Harrison: a cautionary tale', Spiked, 2 October 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Weighing into family life — again', Spiked, 6 October 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Are the supermarkets killing British food?', Spiked, 7 October 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Recycling: an eco-ritual we should bin', Spiked, 20 October 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Life’s a beachball, and then you die', Spiked, 23 October 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Go veggie to ‘save the planet’? Burger off!', Spiked, 29 October 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Cooking up a new theory of evolution', Spiked, 30 October 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The truth about those unemployment stats', Spiked, 16 November 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'What’s stopping us from feeding the world?', Spiked, 19 November 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Cockermouth floods: monsoon as metaphor', Spiked, 24 November 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why animal-free meat is a good idea', Spiked, 3 December 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Turn the clock back to 1875? No thanks', Spiked, 10 December 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The sad decline of David Attenborough', Spiked, 11 December 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Noughtie but nice', Spiked, 22 December 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'A pictorial paean to England’s Second City', Spiked, 30 December 2009.

2010

• Rob Lyons, 'Eco-lightbulbs: not such a bright idea', Spiked, 4 January 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Put the lunch police back in their box', Spiked, 13 January 2010.
• Rob Lyons, ‘Twelve angry men’ are better than one judge, Spiked, 14 January 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'When will the IPCC melt away?', Spiked, 19 January 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'A romcom with an anti-capitalist touch', Spiked, 21 January 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'After the war on salt, the battle against butter', Spiked, 25 January 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'A foodie’s guide to the history of humanity', Spiked, 29 January 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Advocacy research: what a filthy habit', Spiked, 10 February 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'America, we need to talk about Jamie', Spiked, 18 February 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Is this Food, Inc. or Monsters, Inc?', Spiked, 23 February 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'A curious blend of doom and optimism', Spiked, 26 February 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'What’s wrong with exploiting nature?', Spiked, 8 March 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Sons of Cuba: a knockout doc', Spiked, 12 March 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'This tax on fizzy drinks stinks', Spiked, 18 March 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Bang goes that dumbing down theory', Spiked, 19 March 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Will Ireland become an anti-Catholic tyranny?', Spiked, 23 March 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Don’t bring back the Ministry of Food', Spiked, 26 March 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'An audience with the bean-counters', Spiked, 30 March 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'It’s not only cars they want to slow down', Spiked, 1 April 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The sins of the father and mother', Spiked, 15 April 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Icelandic volcano: let’s have a reckoning', Spiked, 22 April 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Let’s challenge these myths of Chernobyl', Spiked, 27 April 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The General Election that nobody won', Spiked, 10 May 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The low Horizons of modern society', Spiked, 12 May 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Squeezing the joy out of ketchup', Spiked, 20 may 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why the Lib-Cons are so keen on austerity', Spiked, 27 May 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'People who eat ‘junk food’ aren’t junkies', Spiked, 28 May 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Let’s put the Gulf-spill crisis into perspective', Spiked, 1 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'We should cut off more than their handouts', Spiked, 3 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why they love the ritual of recycling', Spiked, 8 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why we need a limit on drink-drive laws', Spiked, 16 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Addicted to oil? What a dumb idea', Spiked, 21 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The tyranny of the anti-junk food crusade', Spiked, 23 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Down with the doom-mongers!', Spiked, 25 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Is the climate around global warming changing?', Spiked, 30 June 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Officialdom’s bullying of so-called fat kids', Spiked, 5 July 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Five years on: the lessons of 7/7', Spiked, 7 July 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Down with the doom-mongers!', Spiked, 9 July 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'How Jon Gaunt became a free-speech martyr', Spiked, 15 July 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'An oily, underhand demand for censorship', Spiked, 19 July 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The speed-cam debate: calm down, dears!', Spiked, 28 July 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'We need more Hurricanes in modern-day sport ', Spiked, 29 July 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'The key lesson of the BP oil spill? Don’t panic ', Spiked, 2 August 2009.
• Rob Lyons, 'Don’t call us fat or obese. Just leave us alone', Spiked, 5 August 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Pity the fool who doesn’t enjoy this film', Spiked, 9 August 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Stop smoking or your children will die', Spiked, 10 August 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Are the Reds really going to buy ‘the Reds’?', Spiked, 13 August 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Are we facing a second ‘Battle of Kingsnorth’?', Spiked, 17 August 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Tarantino of food writing', Spiked, 27 August 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'What a misanthropic bunch of stunts', Spiked, 2 September 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Tarantino of food writing', Spiked, 3 September 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Britain’s neverending school-meals saga', Spiked, 8 September 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Oh god, not another Greenpeace guilt-trip', Spiked, 14 September 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'No longer just an armchair supporter', Spiked, 17 September 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'From Cleggmania to crisis in four months flat', Spiked, 22 September 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Serving up some home truths about food', Spiked, 24 September 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'How Ireland became a giant Ponzi scheme', Spiked, 6 October 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'A textbook myth-buster', Spiked, 8 October 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Another day, another attack on smokers', Spiked, 13 October 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Australia: the end of a cricketing empire', Spiked, 15 October 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Stay sane by fighting climate change! ', Spiked, 19 October 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Want to fix the climate? Cut the carbon obsession', Spiked, 27 October 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Oh no, Nutt again!', Spiked, 2 November 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'A wry look look at the state we’re in', Spiked, 12 November 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Let’s blow free speech restrictions sky high', Spiked, 15 November 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Putting the poo-poking ‘expert’ in the stocks', Spiked, 24 November 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Proof at last: eating meat is not bad for the environment', Spiked, 26 November 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Falling fowl of the food snobs ', Spiked, 29 November 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Climate change: a practical problem, not a moral one', Spiked, 2 December 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'The many myths of Erin Brockovich', Spiked, 16 December 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Whatever happened to the ‘obesity timebomb’?', Spiked, 21 December 2010.
• Rob Lyons, 'Conformism dressed up as radical edginess', Spiked, 22 December 2010.

2011

• Rob Lyons, 'Lib-Cons: following New Labour’s diet', Spiked, 4 January 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Produce more food not fewer people', Spiked, 11 January 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Steve Jobs’ sickness is none of our business', Spiked, 20 January 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Now, the therapist is the real king', Spiked, 24 January 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why do greens keep mentioning the war?', Spiked, 25 January 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'It isn’t the sin of sloth that makes people fat', Spiked, 28 January 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Gasland: how to turn good news into bad', Spiked, 3 February 2011.
• Rob Lyons, Why I don’t buy this ‘People’s Supermarket’, Spiked, 11 February 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The politics of The People’s Supermarket', Spiked, 23 February 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Who’s afraid of stuff?', Spiked, 25 February 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Ban these evil coloured boxes!', Spiked, 10 March 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'People have too much wealth? Get stuffed!', Spiked, 11 March 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Five lessons from Fukushima', Spiked, 16 March 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Life expectancy: and now for the good news...', Spiked, 22 March 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'John Terry for England captain: who cares?', Spiked, 25 March 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The unbearable monotony of S*** My Dad Says', Spiked, 31 March 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful ', Spiked, 1 April 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Keeping the poor in the dark', Spiked, 5 April 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Weight loss: the futility of the exercise', Spiked, 12 April 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The busybody war on packed lunches', Spiked, 14 April 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful', Spiked, 15 April 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Making a meal of school children’s diet', Spiked, 18 April 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Henry Cooper: more than a one-punch wonder', Spiked, 3 May 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Shale gas: a welcome energy shock', Spiked, 5 May 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Cube: welcome to your eco-prison cell', Spiked, 12 May 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The sky’s the limit for risk-aversion', Spiked, 25 May 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Anyone but United... or Barcelona', Spiked, 27 May 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Dodging the burgers won’t save the planet', Spiked, 31 May 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Killer cucumbers and evil bean sprouts? Chill out ', Spiked, 7 June 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Too many mouths to feed? Get stuffed', Spiked, 9 June 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The Pipe: a liberal pantomime in the bogs', Spiked, 14 June 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Britain makes more things than you think ', Spiked, 24 June 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'A day in the life of the lonely crowd', Spiked, 27 June 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'How to prolong a conflict, ICC-style', Spiked, 29 June 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Who’s really fibbing about Fukushima?', Spiked, 4 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The fag end of the argument', Spiked, 5 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The tasteless aim of the war on salt', Spiked, 6 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'How green politicking will deepen fuel poverty', Spiked, 14 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Good healthcare for all? Not on the NHS', Spiked, 20 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why the state should butt out of our personal lives', Spiked, 21 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Forgive me, Bloomberg, for I have binged', Spiked, 27 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The strange life and turbulent times of Andy Kershaw', Spiked, 29 July 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Panorama’s addiction to pisspoor journalism', Spiked, 2 August 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Mubarak is gone, but Mubarakans still rule', Spiked, 4 August 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The state or the free market? What a choice...', Spiked, 19 August 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Health and safety gone mad? Don’t blame us!', Spiked, 24 August 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The state or the free market? What a choice...', Spiked, 26 August 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Do growing economies cause bigger bellies?', Spiked, 31 August 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The onward march of the Obesity Orwellians', Spiked, 7 September 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Chefs of the world: get over yourselves', Spiked, 14 September 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Allotments: a plot against modern society?', Spiked, 19 September 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The return of the Mockney Missionary', Spiked, 22 September 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Making a Balls-up of economic recovery', Spiked, 27 September 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Is society suffering from an eating disorder?', Spiked, 30 September 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'This obsession with fat is really taxing', Spiked, 4 October 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'A game of economic Pass the Parcel', Spiked, 6 October 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Dying to scare the life out of us', Spiked, 11 October 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Putting people back at the heart of cities', Spiked, 28 October 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'An earthquake under Britain’s energy supply', Spiked, 3 November 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Taking a knife to liberty and tolerance', Spiked, 8 November 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Smoking in cars: the BMA’s dodgy dossier', Spiked, 17 November 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'George Osborne’s autumn of discontent ', Spiked, 30 November 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The IPCC exposed: political to its core', Spiked, 2 December 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'It’s Jeremy Clarkson’s fans they really fear', Spiked, 5 December 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'The latest BS about the Big C', Spiked, 8 December 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'More flabby claims about obese children', Spiked, 19 December 2011.
• Rob Lyons, 'Reasons to be fearful? Top 10 panics of 2011', Spiked, 29 December 2011.

2012

• Rob Lyons, 'Welcome to the Nagging Health Service', Spiked, 3 January 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'High-speed rail, snail's-pace building', Spiked, 11 January 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'First they came for the smokers...', Spiked, 18 January 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'What’s up with the bees?', Spiked, 25 January 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Calories and Corsets: why dieting never went out style', Spiked, 27 January 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'When it comes to grub, think global', Spiked, 21 February 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Smoker or non-smoker, your freedom is at stake', Spiked, 1 March 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'One year on: the lessons of Fukushima', Spiked, 9 March 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Red meat is bad for you? Burger off!', Spiked, 14 March 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why eco-activists love His Royal Hystericalness', Spiked, 16 March 2012.
• Rob Lyons, Lies, damned lies and ‘pink slime’, Spiked, 26 March 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Why eco-activists love His Royal Hystericalness', Spiked, 30 March 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Football's three priorities: goals, goals, goals', Spiked, 5 April 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'For once, Alan Davies is right', Spiked, 13 April 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Who made Jamie Oliver the Emperor of Eating?', Spiked, 24 April 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Barcelona are crying out for Andy Carroll', Spiked, 26 April 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Lessons from the new food priesthood', Spiked, 27 April 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'The rationing of medical treatment is really sick ', Spiked, 1 May 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'There’s no such thing as a natural drought', Spiked, 3 May 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Give food labelling the red light', Spiked, 15 May 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'An energy policy for dimwits', Spiked, 23 May 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Camping it up behind the Iron Curtain', Spiked, 24 May 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'The battle over GM: a noisy distraction', Spiked, 29 May 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'The state-sanctioned bullying of fat people', Spiked, 31 May 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'McOlympics? That’s fine with me', Spiked, 12 June 2012.
• Rob Lyons, 'Stop hijacking Martha Payne', Spiked, 21 June 2012.

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