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| Monday 9 March 2009 |
Diseasing the recession
The UK government’s offer of free therapy to victims of the slump turns a socioeconomic crisis into a mental health issue.
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| Friday 27 February 2009 |
Energising the debate about climate change
Energise!, a brilliant manual for humanist futurologists, eschews the green ideology of misanthropy and restraint and instead puts the case for more human action to solve a human-made problem.
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| Wednesday 25 February 2009 |
Climate change and the return of original sin
Officials want us to observe a ‘carbon fast’. It’s further evidence that environmentalism is about managing human behaviour rather than nature.
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| Monday 9 February 2009 |
Muslim alienation in the UK? Blame the Israelis!
Is it true that the war in Gaza has heightened community tensions here in Britain? PLUS: Brendan O’Neill on ‘Muslim anger’.
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| Monday 2 February 2009 |
Why the British elite is so scared of babies
In arguing that it’s wrong to have too many kids, Jonathon Porritt has joined the eco-misanthropes who want to reduce human numbers.
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| Monday 19 January 2009 |
After Gaza: what’s behind 21st-century anti-Semitism?
Anti-Israel sentiment is morphing into anti-Jewish sentiment, as more and more people project their disdain for the modern world on to ‘the Jew’.
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| Tuesday 16 December 2008 |
The Crisis With No Name
Society's inability to make sense of the downturn is hampering what we really need: a major public debate about the economy.
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| Monday 1 December 2008 |
Terror in Mumbai: the same old, same old
Claims that the attacks represent a new form of ‘Fourth Generation Warfare’ are infused with historical amnesia and fearmongering.
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| Friday 21 November 2008 |
It is time to challenge the supernanny state
As the second edition of his hugely popular 2001 book Paranoid Parenting is published, Frank Furedi reflects on how official suspicion of adults and parental paranoia have deepened over the past seven years.
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| Tuesday 18 November 2008 |
Why moral opportunists are exploiting this tragedy
The death of Baby P has been turned into a morality tale through which people can express their outrage and affirm their decency.
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| Tuesday 11 November 2008 |
Stop this primitive search for scapegoats
Everyone from ‘extreme capitalists’ to ‘the Jews’ is being blamed for the recession. This gets us nowhere.
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| Wednesday 5 November 2008 |
Obama and the fall of ‘the silent majority’
The election of Obama brings to an end an important chapter in America’s culture wars. But will it create the space for a new political debate?
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| Thursday 30 October 2008 |
Capitalism after the ‘credit crunch’: what is it good for?
In the run-up to a debate at the Battle of Ideas, Frank Furedi takes on capitalism’s half-hearted advocates and its misanthropic critics.
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| Tuesday 21 October 2008 |
How ‘Black September’ will redraw the contours of fear
After an era of pick’n’mix scares, from obesity to eco-doom, will the economic crisis encourage more collective forms of fearing?
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| Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
The state won’t be the saviour of the economy
Having spent 30 years depoliticising economic issues, state institutions are now spearheading an apolitical form of nationalisation.
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| Monday 13 October 2008 |
Panic is not the normal ‘human reaction’
There is no financial crisis so bad that it cannot be made worse by the intervention of the fear industry.
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| Monday 6 October 2008 |
The ‘credit crunch’ and the crisis of meaning
The key problem today is not so much the banking meltdown, as our inability to understand the threat as a prelude to managing it.
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| Friday 12 September 2008 |
Dare to be moral
Frank Furedi welcomes a new guide to morality for ‘grown-up idealists’, which reminds us how important is human reason in shaping the future.
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| Monday 8 September 2008 |
Turning Sarah Palin into a twenty-first century witch
In our era of lifestyle politics, the PC moral crusade against Palin exposes the cosmopolitan elite’s contempt for the common people.
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| Wednesday 3 September 2008 |
Hurricane Gustav and the incitement to panic
US officials’ overblown reaction to Gustav shows that the politics of worst-case thinking can seriously harm community safety and solidarity.
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