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Tim Black
Don’t let these killjoys kill the Olympic spirit
From talk of terrorism and crime to claims that London will become a ‘hotbed of diseases’, why is officialdom so down on the Olympics?
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| Monday 2 April 2012 |
Frank Furedi
What is really fuelling Britain's petrol panic?
This panic shows we're now governed by scared mongers rather than scaremongers, by people whose own fears drive the culture of fear.
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| Tuesday 8 November 2011 |
Tim Black
The ugly blame game over the M5 pile-up
There is something almost medieval, certainly opportunistic, in the shameless rush to find someone to blame for Friday's tragic car crash.
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| Monday 7 November 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Welcome to the era of the post-moral panic
In our morally unanchored society, elite fearmongers prefer to use so-called science rather than moralism to reshape our behaviour.
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| Wednesday 26 October 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The horrors of Halloween advice
Why is the US health-and-safety brigade scaring kids about everything from inflammable costumes to poisonous treats?
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| Wednesday 24 August 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Health and safety gone mad? Don’t blame us!
The Health and Safety Executive loves peddling the myth that it isn’t to blame for our risk-averse culture.
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
Frank Furedi
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 4 July 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Who’s really fibbing about Fukushima?
The way greens tried to play up the accident was far more shocking than ministers’ attempts to ‘play it down’.
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| Thursday 2 June 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Nuclear vs climate change: the clash of the alarmists
Germany’s hysterical decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants exposes the dangers of competitive fearmongering.
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| Wednesday 25 May 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The sky’s the limit
for risk-aversion
It’s not the volcanic eruption in Iceland that has grounded flights in northern Europe, but an obsession with worst-case scenarios.
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| Monday 23 May 2011 |
Bill Durodié
WHO’s learned nothing from the swine-flu panic?
The over-reaction to H1N1 influenza in 2009 was built on years of waiting for ‘the Big One’.
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| Monday 4 April 2011 |
Ben Pile
Fukushima: why greens turned on each other
The reaction to events in Japan shows that fear – of climate change or radiation – trumps old solidarities.
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| Wednesday 5 January 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Doing the terrorists’ dirty work for them
Nathalie Rothschild reports from Sweden where lawmakers are exploiting people’s fears to curtail liberty.
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| Thursday 16 December 2010 |
Rob Lyons
The many myths of Erin Brockovich
The town featured in that Julia Roberts film may have been sickened more by lawyers than by a power company.
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| Monday 13 December 2010 |
Johannes Richardt
Accidents are a fact of a life lived well
The cheap, politician-led exploitation of an accident on a German TV show is a threat to our freedom to take risks.
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| Monday 29 November 2010 |
Mark Blackham
So when should we risk our lives?
The New Zealand mine disaster revealed the extent to which caution has elbowed aside humanistic heroism.
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| Thursday 21 October 2010 |
Tara McCormack
The Lib-Cons’ national insecurity strategy
Just like the New Labour government, the Lib-Con coalition has no idea which interests to pursue or protect.
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| Monday 11 October 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Inviting us to bow down before the god of fortune
Today’s deification of fear encourages us to succumb to fate. But we should learn from the Romans and seek to subdue Fortuna.
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| Thursday 7 October 2010 |
Tim Black
Removing the red tape is the easy part
The Lib-Cons’ war on the health-and-safety cult is welcome. But the problem runs deeper than they think.
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| Monday 21 June 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Why BP is not very slick in an emergency
When companies adhere to the rituals of risk-aversion, they lose sight of how to deal with real emergencies. Now we can see the consequences.
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