‘We should refuse to be terrorised’
At the London launch of his new book, Invitation to Terror, Frank Furedi offered some salutary advice to Gordon Brown on how to win the ‘battle of ideas’.
The dangers of ‘celebrity science’
A new report shows why we should take celebs’ advice on food, chemicals, how to avoid cancer and other scientific matters with an unhealthily large dose of salt.
'Toys can be fun.
They can also kill'
Fueled by irrational fear and a dash of angst about the 'yellow peril', Channel 4's investigation of dangerous Xmas toys was like an episode of Brass Eye.
Christine Ohuruogu: sporting hero or villain?
In the Kafkaesque world of athletics drug-testing, admirable world champions like British runner Ohuruogu will always be tainted with suspicion.
Knocking school sports for six
From football to frisbee, school sport is being stripped of its competitive element and turned into a tool for social engineering.
Must-reads from the past week
The 'Special One' has
finally cracked
After comparing his players to third-rate eggs, José Mourinho has walked away from the Chelsea 'omelette'.
Not seeing the wood for the family trees
As the BBC’s celebrity-genes show Who Do You Think You Are? returns, why are people so keen to define themselves biologically?
Keeping it unreal
Sugarhouse, a British gangsta thriller about yoof, drugs and street life, is a cartoon-like portrayal of social inequality.
An irritating truth
The Simpsons Movie, in ridiculing greens while defending the Everyman who’s under attack everywhere else, is the sharpest satire around.
‘MY PAIN’, by the Duchess of Pork
Celebrity therapist Pamela Connolly turns psychoanalysis into light entertainment on Channel 4's Shrink Rap. This week: Fergie.
