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[[File:Rob_Lyons.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Rob Lyons]]
 
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[[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.<ref>Battle of Ideas 2007 festival [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/5/ biography](Accessed: 3 September 2007)</ref>
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[[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.<ref>Battle of Ideas 2007 festival [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/speaker_detail/5/ biography](Accessed: 3 September 2007)</ref>
  
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Lyons studied for a BA inLaw and Psychology at Keele University (1986-90).
  
  
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6314/ Seeing red over ‘Fred the Shred’], ''Spiked'', 3 March 2009.
 
*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6314/ Seeing red over ‘Fred the Shred’], ''Spiked'', 3 March 2009.
 
*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6358/ 'Punishing us for that packet of Maltesers'], ''Spiked'', 16 March 2009.
 
*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6358/ 'Punishing us for that packet of Maltesers'], ''Spiked'', 16 March 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6416/ 'The ‘sustainable development’ con'], ''Spiked'', 31 March 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6441/ 'Calorie-counting is an eating disorder'], ''Spiked'', 8 April 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6553/ 'A campaign to switch off modern society'], ''Spiked'', 16 April 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6572/ 'A downturn in imaginative thinking'], ''Spiked'', 23 April 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/6596/ 'The deification of Earth'], ''Spiked'', 24 April 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6620/ 'Swine flu: official panic is making things worse'], ''Spiked'', 30 April 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6646/ 'Euro-kitsch, fame and growing up'], ''Spiked'', 8 May 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6663/ 'James Lovelock’s deification of Earth'], ''Spiked'', 15 May 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6735/ 'The neverending war on the white stuff'], ''Spiked'', 20 May 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/6898/ 'What’s behind today’s epidemic of epidemics?'], ''Spiked'', 29 May 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6972/ 'No party has a divine right to exist'], ''Spiked'', 1 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6983/ 'The man who should never have been PM'], ''Spiked'', 4 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6985/ 'Kaká: small name, big transfer fee'], ''Spiked'', 5 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6994/ 'The myth of a far-right surge'], ''Spiked'', 8 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6996/ 'The fishy message of The End of the Line'], ''Spiked'', 9 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7008/ 'What’s behind today’s epidemic of epidemics?'], ''Spiked'', 12 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7038/ 'The new c-word in British politics: cuts'], ''Spiked'', 17 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7066/ 'Climate change horror: the UK will be like Provence'], ''Spiked'', 22 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/7085/ 'Puritanism disguised as science'], ''Spiked'', 26 June 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7110/ 'Desperately seeking an economic revival'], ''Spiked'', 2 July 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7131/ 'Let’s have a bonfire of the quangos'], ''Spiked'', 8 July 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7181/ 'The bunkum of Body Mass Index'], ''Spiked'', 22 July 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7197/ 'Fiddling with loans while Rome burns'], ''Spiked'', 28 July 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/7207/ 'Question everything — even environmentalism'], ''Spiked'', 31 July 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7222/ 'Organic food and unhealthy snobbery'], ''Spiked'', 3 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7230/ 'We need planes, trains and automobiles'], ''Spiked'', 6 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7259/ 'Copenhagen climate deal would be no fairytale'], ''Spiked'', 12 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7275/ 'Health wars: six myths about the NHS debate'], ''Spiked'', 17 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7291/ ‘We’re in the killing Nazis business’], ''Spiked'', 20 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7293/ 'Lockerbie: what’s justice got to do with it?'], ''Spiked'', 21 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7310/ 'Cameron’s Tories: the heirs to Blairism'], ''Spiked'', 25 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7323/ 'Question everything - even environmentalism'], ''Spiked'', 28 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7333/ 'The junk science behind the war on junk food'], ''Spiked'', 2 September 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7364/ 'Cycling: the Battle of the Panics'], ''Spiked'', 9 September 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7374/ 'Could England actually win the World Cup?'], ''Spiked'', 11 September 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7382/ 'Norman Borlaug, RIP'], ''Spiked'', 14 September 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7422/ 'The backward attacks on Norman Borlaug'], ''Spiked'', 21 September 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7426/ 'The austerity auction'], ''Spiked'', 22 September 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7465/ 'A blame game you can bank on'], ''Spiked'', 29 September 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7485/ 'Audley Harrison: a cautionary tale'], ''Spiked'', 2 October 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7495/ 'Weighing into family life — again'], ''Spiked'', 6 October 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7510/ 'Are the supermarkets killing British food?'], ''Spiked'', 7 October 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7593/ 'Recycling: an eco-ritual we should bin'], ''Spiked'', 20 October 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7607/ 'Life’s a beachball, and then you die'], ''Spiked'', 23 October 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7650/ 'Go veggie to ‘save the planet’? Burger off!'], ''Spiked'', 29 October 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/7645/ 'Cooking up a new theory of evolution'], ''Spiked'', 30 October 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7696/ 'The truth about those unemployment stats'], ''Spiked'', 16 November 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7728/ 'What’s stopping us from feeding the world?'], ''Spiked'', 19 November 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7746/ 'Cockermouth floods: monsoon as metaphor'], ''Spiked'', 24 November 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7792/ 'Why animal-free meat is a good idea'], ''Spiked'', 3 December 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7816/ 'Turn the clock back to 1875? No thanks'], ''Spiked'', 10 December 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7821/ 'The sad decline of David Attenborough'], ''Spiked'', 11 December 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7870/ 'Noughtie but nice'], ''Spiked'', 22 December 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/7856/ 'A pictorial paean to England’s Second City'], ''Spiked'', 30 December 2009.
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====2010====
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7887/ 'Eco-lightbulbs: not such a bright idea'], ''Spiked'', 4 January 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7934/ 'Put the lunch police back in their box'], ''Spiked'', 13 January 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7943/ ‘Twelve angry men’ are better than one judge], ''Spiked'', 14 January 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7967/ 'When will the IPCC melt away?'], ''Spiked'', 19 January 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7975/ 'A romcom with an anti-capitalist touch'], ''Spiked'', 21 January 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/7995/ 'After the war on salt, the battle against butter'], ''Spiked'', 25 January 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/8013/ 'A foodie’s guide to the history of humanity'], ''Spiked'', 29 January 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8066/ 'Advocacy research: what a filthy habit'], ''Spiked'', 10 February 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8200/ 'America, we need to talk about Jamie'], ''Spiked'', 18 February 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8228/ 'Is this Food, Inc. or Monsters, Inc?'], ''Spiked'', 23 February 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/8238/ 'A curious blend of doom and optimism'], ''Spiked'', 26 February 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8289/ 'What’s wrong with exploiting nature?'], ''Spiked'', 8 March 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8307/ 'Sons of Cuba: a knockout doc'], ''Spiked'', 12 March 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8320/ 'This tax on fizzy drinks stinks'], ''Spiked'', 18 March 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8330/ 'Bang goes that dumbing down theory'], ''Spiked'', 19 March 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8337/ 'Will Ireland become an anti-Catholic tyranny?'], ''Spiked'', 23 March 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/8349/ 'Don’t bring back the Ministry of Food'], ''Spiked'', 26 March 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8365/ 'An audience with the bean-counters'], ''Spiked'', 30 March 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8427/ 'It’s not only cars they want to slow down'], ''Spiked'', 1 April 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8532/ 'The sins of the father and mother'], ''Spiked'', 15 April 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8638/ 'The Icelandic volcano: let’s have a reckoning'], ''Spiked'', 22 April 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8661/ 'Let’s challenge these myths of Chernobyl'], ''Spiked'', 27 April 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8860/ 'The General Election that nobody won'], ''Spiked'', 10 May 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8866/ 'The low Horizons of modern society'], ''Spiked'', 12 May 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8898/ 'Squeezing the joy out of ketchup'], ''Spiked'', 20 may 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8931/ 'Why the Lib-Cons are so keen on austerity'], ''Spiked'', 27 May 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/8927/ 'People who eat ‘junk food’ aren’t junkies'], ''Spiked'', 28 May 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8945/ 'Let’s put the Gulf-spill crisis into perspective'], ''Spiked'', 1 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8955/ 'We should cut off more than their handouts'], ''Spiked'', 3 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8968/ 'Why they love the ritual of recycling'], ''Spiked'', 8 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9012/ 'Why we need a limit on drink-drive laws'], ''Spiked'', 16 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9029/ 'Addicted to oil? What a dumb idea'], ''Spiked'', 21 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9073/ 'The tyranny of the anti-junk food crusade'], ''Spiked'', 23 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/9080/ 'Down with the doom-mongers!'], ''Spiked'', 25 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9100/ 'Is the climate around global warming changing?'], ''Spiked'', 30 June 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9161/ 'Officialdom’s bullying of so-called fat kids'], ''Spiked'', 5 July 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9169/ 'Five years on: the lessons of 7/7'], ''Spiked'', 7 July 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9177/ 'Down with the doom-mongers!'], ''Spiked'', 9 July 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9205/ 'How Jon Gaunt became a free-speech martyr'], ''Spiked'', 15 July 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9274/ 'An oily, underhand demand for censorship'], ''Spiked'', 19 July 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9354/ 'The speed-cam debate: calm down, dears!'], ''Spiked'', 28 July 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9359/ 'We need more Hurricanes in modern-day sport '], ''Spiked'', 29 July 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9379/ 'The key lesson of the BP oil spill? Don’t panic '], ''Spiked'', 2 August 2009.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9386/ 'Don’t call us fat or obese. Just leave us alone'], ''Spiked'', 5 August 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9397/ 'Pity the fool who doesn’t enjoy this film'], ''Spiked'', 9 August 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9403/ 'Stop smoking or your children will die'], ''Spiked'', 10 August 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9421/ 'Are the Reds really going to buy ‘the Reds’?'], ''Spiked'', 13 August 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9432/ 'Are we facing a second ‘Battle of Kingsnorth’?'], ''Spiked'', 17 August 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/9463/ 'The Tarantino of food writing'], ''Spiked'', 27 August 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9484/ 'What a misanthropic bunch of stunts'], ''Spiked'', 2 September 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9485/ 'The Tarantino of food writing'], ''Spiked'', 3 September 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9500/ 'Britain’s neverending school-meals saga'], ''Spiked'', 8 September 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9554/ 'Oh god, not another Greenpeace guilt-trip'], ''Spiked'', 14 September 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9588/ 'No longer just an armchair supporter'], ''Spiked'', 17 September 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9616/ 'From Cleggmania to crisis in four months flat'], ''Spiked'', 22 September 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/9630/ 'Serving up some home truths about food'], ''Spiked'', 24 September 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9754/ 'How Ireland became a giant Ponzi scheme'], ''Spiked'', 6 October 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9761/ 'A textbook myth-buster'], ''Spiked'', 8 October 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9784/ 'Another day, another attack on smokers'], ''Spiked'', 13 October 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9791/ 'Australia: the end of a cricketing empire'], ''Spiked'', 15 October 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9798/ 'Stay sane by fighting climate change! '], ''Spiked'', 19 October 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9824/ 'Want to fix the climate? Cut the carbon obsession'], ''Spiked'', 27 October 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9845/ 'Oh no, Nutt again!'], ''Spiked'', 2 November 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9888/ 'A wry look look at the state we’re in'], ''Spiked'', 12 November 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9893/ 'Let’s blow free speech restrictions sky high'], ''Spiked'', 15 November 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9928/ 'Putting the poo-poking ‘expert’ in the stocks'], ''Spiked'', 24 November 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/9935/ 'Proof at last: eating meat is not bad for the environment'], ''Spiked'', 26 November 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9951/ 'Falling fowl of the food snobs '], ''Spiked'', 29 November 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9960/ 'Climate change: a practical problem, not a moral one'], ''Spiked'', 2 December 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10009/ 'The many myths of Erin Brockovich'], ''Spiked'', 16 December 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10026/ 'Whatever happened to the ‘obesity timebomb’?'], ''Spiked'', 21 December 2010.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10019/ 'Conformism dressed up as radical edginess'], ''Spiked'', 22 December 2010.
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====2011====
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10048/ 'Lib-Cons: following New Labour’s diet'], ''Spiked'', 4 January 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10068/ 'Produce more food not fewer people'], ''Spiked'', 11 January 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10103/ 'Steve Jobs’ sickness is none of our business'], ''Spiked'', 20 January 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10111/ 'Now, the therapist is the real king'], ''Spiked'', 24 January 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10116/ 'Why do greens keep mentioning the war?'], ''Spiked'', 25 January 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/10129/ 'It isn’t the sin of sloth that makes people fat'], ''Spiked'', 28 January 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10156/ 'Gasland: how to turn good news into bad'], ''Spiked'', 3 February 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10187/ Why I don’t buy this ‘People’s Supermarket’], ''Spiked'', 11 February 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10227/ 'The politics of The People’s Supermarket'], ''Spiked'', 23 February 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/10232/ 'Who’s afraid of stuff?'], ''Spiked'', 25 February 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10276/ 'Ban these evil coloured boxes!'], ''Spiked'', 10 March 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10282/ 'People have too much wealth? Get stuffed!'], ''Spiked'', 11 March 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10296/ 'Five lessons from Fukushima'], ''Spiked'', 16 March 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10316/ 'Life expectancy: and now for the good news...'], ''Spiked'', 22 March 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10332/ 'John Terry for England captain: who cares?'], ''Spiked'', 25 March 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10352/ 'The unbearable monotony of S*** My Dad Says'], ''Spiked'', 31 March 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/10355/ 'Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful '], ''Spiked'', 1 April 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10371/ 'Keeping the poor in the dark'], ''Spiked'', 5 April 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10422/ 'Weight loss: the futility of the exercise'], ''Spiked'', 12 April 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10429/ 'The busybody war on packed lunches'], ''Spiked'', 14 April 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10431/ 'Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful'], ''Spiked'', 15 April 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10438/ 'Making a meal of school children’s diet'], ''Spiked'', 18 April 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10478/ 'Henry Cooper: more than a one-punch wonder'], ''Spiked'', 3 May 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10485/ 'Shale gas: a welcome energy shock'], ''Spiked'', 5 May 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10505/ 'The Cube: welcome to your eco-prison cell'], ''Spiked'', 12 May 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10543/ 'The sky’s the limit for risk-aversion'], ''Spiked'', 25 May 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10552/ 'Anyone but United... or Barcelona'], ''Spiked'', 27 May 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10561/ 'Dodging the burgers won’t save the planet'], ''Spiked'', 31 May 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10585/ 'Killer cucumbers and evil bean sprouts? Chill out '], ''Spiked'', 7 June 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10589/ 'Too many mouths to feed? Get stuffed'], ''Spiked'', 9 June 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10601/ 'The Pipe: a liberal pantomime in the bogs'], ''Spiked'', 14 June 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/10642/ 'Britain makes more things than you think '], ''Spiked'', 24 June 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10648/ 'A day in the life of the lonely crowd'], ''Spiked'', 27 June 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10655/ 'How to prolong a conflict, ICC-style'], ''Spiked'', 29 June 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10670/ 'Who’s really fibbing about Fukushima?'], ''Spiked'', 4 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10679/ 'The fag end of the argument'], ''Spiked'', 5 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10683/ 'The tasteless aim of the war on salt'], ''Spiked'', 6 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10877/ 'How green politicking will deepen fuel poverty'], ''Spiked'', 14 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10910/ 'Good healthcare for all? Not on the NHS'], ''Spiked'', 20 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10911/ 'Why the state should butt out of our personal lives'], ''Spiked'', 21 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10929/ 'Forgive me, Bloomberg, for I have binged'], ''Spiked'', 27 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/10938/ 'The strange life and turbulent times of Andy Kershaw'], ''Spiked'', 29 July 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10952/ 'Panorama’s addiction to pisspoor journalism'], ''Spiked'', 2 August 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10962/ 'Mubarak is gone, but Mubarakans still rule'], ''Spiked'', 4 August 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10997/ 'The state or the free market? What a choice...'], ''Spiked'', 19 August 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11014/ 'Health and safety gone mad? Don’t blame us!'], ''Spiked'', 24 August 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/11022/ 'The state or the free market? What a choice...'], ''Spiked'', 26 August 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11038/ 'Do growing economies cause bigger bellies?'], ''Spiked'', 31 August 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11056/ 'The onward march of the Obesity Orwellians'], ''Spiked'', 7 September 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11076/ 'Chefs of the world: get over yourselves'], ''Spiked'', 14 September 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11090/ 'Allotments: a plot against modern society?'], ''Spiked'', 19 September 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11101/ 'The return of the Mockney Missionary'], ''Spiked'', 22 September 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11111/ 'Making a Balls-up of economic recovery'], ''Spiked'', 27 September 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/11128/ 'Is society suffering from an eating disorder?'], ''Spiked'', 30 September 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11138/ 'This obsession with fat is really taxing'], ''Spiked'', 4 October 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11144/ 'A game of economic Pass the Parcel'], ''Spiked'', 6 October 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11157/ 'Dying to scare the life out of us'], ''Spiked'', 11 October 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/11351/ 'Putting people back at the heart of cities'], ''Spiked'', 28 October 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11368/ 'An earthquake under Britain’s energy supply'], ''Spiked'', 3 November 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11383/ 'Taking a knife to liberty and tolerance'], ''Spiked'', 8 November 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11567/ 'Smoking in cars: the BMA’s dodgy dossier'], ''Spiked'', 17 November 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11855/ 'George Osborne’s autumn of discontent '], ''Spiked'', 30 November 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11860/ 'The IPCC exposed: political to its core'], ''Spiked'', 2 December 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11867/ 'It’s Jeremy Clarkson’s fans they really fear'], ''Spiked'', 5 December 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11875/ 'The latest BS about the Big C'], ''Spiked'', 8 December 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11903/ 'More flabby claims about obese children'], ''Spiked'', 19 December 2011.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11938/ 'Reasons to be fearful? Top 10 panics of 2011'], ''Spiked'', 29 December 2011.
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====2012====
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11945/ 'Welcome to the Nagging Health Service'], ''Spiked'', 3 January 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11967/ 'High-speed rail, snail's-pace building'], ''Spiked'', 11 January 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11984/ 'First they came for the smokers...'], ''Spiked'', 18 January 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12006/ 'What’s up with the bees?'], ''Spiked'', 25 January 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/12017/ 'Calories and Corsets: why dieting never went out style'], ''Spiked'', 27 January 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12136/ 'When it comes to grub, think global'], ''Spiked'', 21 February 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12172/ 'Smoker or non-smoker, your freedom is at stake'], ''Spiked'', 1 March 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12227/ 'One year on: the lessons of Fukushima'], ''Spiked'', 9 March 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12248/ 'Red meat is bad for you? Burger off!'], ''Spiked'', 14 March 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12256/ 'Why eco-activists love His Royal Hystericalness'], ''Spiked'', 16 March 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12277/ Lies, damned lies and ‘pink slime’], ''Spiked'', 26 March 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/12301/ 'Why eco-activists love His Royal Hystericalness'], ''Spiked'', 30 March 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12319/ 'Football's three priorities: goals, goals, goals'], ''Spiked'', 5 April 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12337/ 'For once, Alan Davies is right'], ''Spiked'', 13 April 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12372/ 'Who made Jamie Oliver the Emperor of Eating?'], ''Spiked'', 24 April 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12382/ 'Barcelona are crying out for Andy Carroll'], ''Spiked'', 26 April 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/12391/ 'Lessons from the new food priesthood'], ''Spiked'', 27 April 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12399/ 'The rationing of medical treatment is really sick '], ''Spiked'', 1 May 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12410/ 'There’s no such thing as a natural drought'], ''Spiked'', 3 May 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12451/ 'Give food labelling the red light'], ''Spiked'', 15 May 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12472/ 'An energy policy for dimwits'], ''Spiked'', 23 May 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12478/ 'Camping it up behind the Iron Curtain'], ''Spiked'', 24 May 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12495/ 'The battle over GM: a noisy distraction'], ''Spiked'', 29 May 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12505/ 'The state-sanctioned bullying of fat people'], ''Spiked'', 31 May 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12537/ 'McOlympics? That’s fine with me'], ''Spiked'', 12 June 2012.
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*[[Rob Lyons]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12565/ 'Stop hijacking Martha Payne'], ''Spiked'', 21 June 2012.
  
 
==References, Resources and Contact==
 
==References, Resources and Contact==

Latest revision as of 14:51, 25 June 2015

LM network resources
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.[1]


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



Affiliations

Publications

Spiked

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

References, Resources and Contact

Contact

Blog: www.precautionarytales.net
Blog2: www.robertlyons.co.uk
Blog3: www.paniconaplate.com
Twitter: Robspiked

References

  1. Battle of Ideas 2007 festival biography(Accessed: 3 September 2007)
  2. Parents Forum (Accessed: 22 September 2007)

Notes