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| Monday 10 June 2013 |
Govephobia: the malady sweeping right-on Britain
Saying ‘I hate Michael Gove’ now works as a kind of password that grants one entry into the inner circle of polite society. Why has this happened?
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| Tuesday 28 May 2013 |
The real roots of
homegrown terrorism
Blaming shadowy Islamist groomers for ‘radicalising’ young Muslims ignores problems closer to home.
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| Monday 13 May 2013 |
The moral lynching
of Barbara Hewson
The crusade against the ‘whore’ Hewson after she criticised Operation Yewtree confirms that the paedophile panic rips apart rational debate.
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| Monday 29 April 2013 |
After Savile: policing as entertainment
Operation Yewtree isn’t about solving crime – it’s more like a reality TV format where the police’s aim is to thrill the paedo-fearing public.
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| Tuesday 23 April 2013 |
Boston: what turns
nice guys into nihilists?
It isn't the lure of foreign jihad but rather the confusions and self-loathing of Western society itself that can turn youngsters violent.
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| Wednesday 17 April 2013 |
The Boston bombings: refusing to be terrorised
The spirit and solidarity shown by Bostonians confirm that while terrorism can kill people, it cannot kill community.
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| Wednesday 3 April 2013 |
The philistines have
taken over the classroom
ESSAY: How did we get to a situation where teachers are even more cavalier about knowledge and serious schooling than politicians are?
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| Thursday 28 March 2013 |
‘If you question the Savile crusade, you're seen as evil’
Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse.
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| Friday 22 March 2013 |
‘If you question the Savile crusade, you're seen as evil’
Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse.
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| Monday 18 March 2013 |
Porn: no longer a dirty little secret
The normalisation of porn-use in the 21st-century West speaks to a serious crisis of values – one that censorship won't solve.
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| Monday 4 March 2013 |
So, when is sex appropriate?
ESSAY: The current moral crusade against ‘inappropriate behaviour’ speaks to today's stultifying and prurient political culture.
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| Monday 25 February 2013 |
The use and abuse of history
Those complaining about Michael Gove’s new history curriculum are driven by a philistine obsession with skills over knowledge.
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| Friday 25 January 2013 |
The struggle to moralise capitalism
A fascinating exploration of the role of liberal intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek in the rehabilitation of free-market ideology also exposes the crisis of liberalism in the modern era.
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| Monday 14 January 2013 |
Using children as a moral shield
Officials and charities that use children to front their moralistic campaigns are trying to shut down criticism and opposition.
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| Tuesday 8 January 2013 |
Stanley Cohen: a hero of sociology
The death of Cohen, who coined the term ‘moral panic’, deprives us of a great intellectual voice.
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| Wednesday 2 January 2013 |
How ‘child protection’ policies harm children
We all want kids to be safe, but the plan to create a new database of children who visit A&E units will have the opposite effect.
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| Monday 26 November 2012 |
The invention of yet
another form of abuse
A new report claiming that thousands of British children are being sexually exploited is built on alarmist moralising rather than hard facts.
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| Thursday 15 November 2012 |
Does man make history, or does history make man?
ESSAY: Marx’s understanding of the relationship between man and history has been completely warped by increasingly deterministic Marxists.
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| Tuesday 13 November 2012 |
The vigilantism of the Little Bullingdons
The current ‘paedo hysteria’ is being fanned, not by low-rent tabloid papers, but by politicians, serious journalists and the Twitterati.
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| Monday 5 November 2012 |
Are we all condemned to live in ‘cycles of abuse’?
It is now heresy to question the idea that child abuse damages a person for life. But such a deeply fatalistic idea must be questioned.
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