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| Wednesday 1 February 2012 |
How atheism became a religion in all but name
It was only a matter of time before someone proposed an ‘atheist temple’, given the religious-
like zealotry and dogma of the New Atheists.
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| Monday 23 January 2012 |
Message to EU meddlers: Hands off Hungary!
Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers.
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| Monday 9 January 2012 |
Declaring war against bluster and rhetoric
Frank Furedi kicks off his new monthly column on Hollow Thoughts by reclaiming the word ‘conversation’ from our illiberal rulers.
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| Thursday 29 December 2011 |
The year when the word ‘progressive’ lost all its meaning
After the events of 2011, radical humanists will have to fight hard to reclaim the p-word.
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| Wednesday 14 December 2011 |
Exposed: the snobbery and intolerance of the EU elite
The chattering classes’ hysterical reaction to David Cameron’s veto of a revised Lisbon Treaty reveals the dark heart of pro-EU sentiment.
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| Tuesday 29 November 2011 |
How the EU oligarchy has downsized democracy
ESSAY: So-called liberals and leftists have become obsessed with constructing a political firewall between the elite and the multitude.
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| Tuesday 15 November 2011 |
Occupy movement: all process and no principle
ESSAY: If the occupiers are so opposed to ‘the one per cent’, why do they keep ripping off its soul-destroying managerial style of politics?
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| Tuesday 1 November 2011 |
Why church officials worship these protesters
No attempt to depict Occupy London as a Second Coming of angry Jesuses can disguise the fact that it remains a shallow moral gesture.
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| Thursday 27 October 2011 |
It’s 100% certain that they don’t represent 99%
The occupiers’ claim to speak for ‘the 99%’ exposes how determined they are to avoid hard political debate in favour of cheap moralising.
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| Thursday 13 October 2011 |
We don’t need experts to teach us how to be civil
A new report calls on officialdom to ‘nudge’ the masses towards civilised behaviour. It isn’t only a patronising idea, but a dangerous one.
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| Wednesday 5 October 2011 |
Let’s stop kowtowing to the cult of transparency
The demand that every corner of officialdom be thrown open to public view has only made politics a more deceptive, less principled sphere.
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| Monday 12 September 2011 |
It’s time to expel the ‘experts’ from family life
In repackaging parenting as a superbly complex, almost scientific task, a gaggle of experts hopes to colonise our personal lives.
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| Monday 5 September 2011 |
After 9/11: ten years of a war against… who?
In the first of his series of ‘On Reflection’ essays, Frank Furedi reflects on our leaders' inability to give a name to their post-9/11 wars.
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| Tuesday 23 August 2011 |
Cameron’s cure will make society sicker
The PM's post-riots promise of more intervention into troubled families is mad – it is precisely such intervention that devastated parental authority.
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| Monday 15 August 2011 |
Rioting in England: was it just a bad dream?
The elite’s claim that this was just another facet of the ‘culture of greed’ shows how incapable they are of addressing urban implosion.
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| Friday 29 July 2011 |
What’s with the fashion for bashing baby boomers?
There’s something irritatingly infantile about blaming the boomers for everything from recession to eco-apocalypse. But in some ways, the boomers invited such ridicule.
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| Wednesday 20 July 2011 |
Why the EU is so clueless about the Euro crisis
Insulated from the demos and unpractised in the art of political leadership, it is little wonder EU officials can do little to address Euro woes.
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| Monday 11 July 2011 |
‘We name and shame the evil tabloid hacks!’
The cultural elite’s crusade against News International is only a more erudite version of the News of the World’s war on perverts.
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
It’s health-and-safety gone mainstream!
British officials love to laugh at mad bans on conkers and snowfights, yet they continue to institutionalise a cult of caution.
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| Monday 27 June 2011 |
An unholy marriage of snobbery and snideyness
The cultural elite’s support for gay marriage is more about distinguishing themselves from homophobic plebs than fighting for equal rights.
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