Rob Lyons

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Rob Lyons

Rob Lyons is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmentalist LM network. He is deputy editor of Spiked and is website registree for Spiked and Sense About Science. 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.

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.

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