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| Monday 24 September 2012 |
The intolerant war on ‘parochial pensioners’
In forever fretting about the ‘bigoted attitudes’ of ordinary people, Britain’s political class exposes its own prejudices.
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| Tuesday 28 August 2012 |
GCSE wars: the case for real and hard exams
However exam grades are manipulated, the result is always to sacrifice children’s education at the altar of political expediency.
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| Monday 30 July 2012 |
Mythical past,
elusive future
The Olympics opening ceremony was a spectacular piece of living theatre. But it also revealed our discomfort with our past and fear of the future.
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| Tuesday 24 July 2012 |
Don’t let fearmongers
kill the Olympic spirit
Killjoy campaigners are spreading scare stories about the London Games. Ignore them and recall instead the spirit of the Ancient Greeks.
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| Wednesday 18 July 2012 |
Why teachers should aspire to be scholars
Too many educationalists today believe an intellectually informed curriculum is only suitable for the elites and not the masses.
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| Monday 2 July 2012 |
The bigotry of the
anti-circumcision zealots
ESSAY: Today’s campaigning against circumcision is so dogmatic and intolerant it makes the old religions look enlightened in comparison.
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| Thursday 28 June 2012 |
Inviting the state into our intimacies
ESSAY: Gay marriage is presented as an issue of equal rights, but it’s better understood as a top-down overhaul of the institution of marriage.
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| Wednesday 20 June 2012 |
The moralistic, Malthusian war against fat people
Activists, professors, theologians – everyone is now promoting the depraved idea that human gluttony is plunging the planet into catastrophe.
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| Monday 21 May 2012 |
Parental determinism: a most harmful prejudice
David Cameron’s proposed parenting classes are built on the bizarre and destructive idea that parenting determines society’s fortunes.
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| Wednesday 16 May 2012 |
Revisiting ‘Midnight
in the Century’
Frank Furedi looks back at his 1990 groundbreaking Living Marxism article on the crisis facing Marxists.
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| Monday 14 May 2012 |
Gay marriage: redrawing the American political map
In officially endorsing same-sex marriage, Obama is signalling that the Democratic Party now has little interest in its old blue-collar supporters.
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| Friday 27 April 2012 |
The divided state of America
Charles Murray’s new book is a valiant effort to explain why America's upper classes are now so hollow and defensive, and incapable of marshalling the moral resources to lead society.
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| Monday 16 April 2012 |
This linguistic engineering invades our lives and loves
Officialdom’s frenetic replacement of words like son and wife with words like ‘carer’ and ‘partner’ diminishes our identities.
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| Monday 2 April 2012 |
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 27 March 2012 |
Call off this Culture War over Toulouse
Even before we knew the identity of the anti-Semitic school-shooter, people were turning him into a symbol of all that’s wrong with France.
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| Monday 19 March 2012 |
Bob Dylan and the birth of The Sixties
On the 50th anniversary of the release of Dylan's first album, Frank Furedi looks back at that decade of tumult.
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| Thursday 15 March 2012 |
The moral crusaders who confuse sex with rape
Today’s relentless awareness-raising about an alleged epidemic of rape speaks to officialdom’s suspicion of interpersonal relationships.
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| Thursday 8 March 2012 |
The elites are making
a virtue of intolerance
ESSAY: France’s criminalisation of Armenian genocide denial is only the latest outburst of twenty-first-century state intolerance.
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| Wednesday 22 February 2012 |
Who’s afraid of the big bad ‘lone wolf’?
ESSAY: Frank Furedi on how Western society’s panic about ‘lone-wolf terrorists’ ends up empowering sad individuals who want to do harm.
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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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