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Thursday 14 March 2013	Risk


Robin Walsh It's the antibiotics apocalypse! Again... Ignore the Chief Medical Officer’s fearmongering: antibiotic resistance can be tackled with new antibiotics.

Thursday 24 January 2013
Christopher Snowdon This junk science just takes your breath away The claim that the smoking ban has reduced asthma rates is a case study in using ‘research’ to justify coercive policy.

Wednesday 31 October 2012
Nathalie Rothschild New York: standing tall against nature’s wrath Let’s praise the manmade structures that withstood Sandy’s fury rather than fretting about allegedly manmade Frankenstorms.

Tuesday 28 August 2012
Tim Black ‘Who has a lion in Essex?’ Just about the only people who took the Essex lion story seriously were the prattish police force.

Wednesday 11 July 2012
Rob Lyons Picking over the panic on a plate When it comes to food, journalists and reporters are far too keen to fill themselves up on a diet of fear and hype.

Tuesday 22 May 2012
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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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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Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.


	15 May 2013 St Angelina, save us from ourselves!


	14 May 2013 Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life


	17 May 2013: *The Star Trek* hype? It’s illogical, captain.**


	17 May 2013: Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up
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