by Frank Furedi | Jul 25, 2024 | Society and Civility
It often appears that CEOs of some of the largest global corporations have made the cause of the woke their own. Their willingness to join the fray was demonstrated in their response to the launching of GB News in the UK. No sooner was this new, independent news...
by Frank Furedi | Jul 18, 2022 | Politics and the Economy
The Demise of Boris Johnson You could hear the army of cynical Eurocrats chuckle as Boris Johnson announced his resignation this week. Their reaction was summed up by the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, who said he ‘personally will not miss Johnson’, and that...
by Frank Furedi | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorised
Developing nations have had enough of the West’s lectures Talk of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turning into a proxy war between Washington and the Kremlin has ratcheted up in recent weeks. But there is another international conflict that already resembles a proxy war,...
by Frank Furedi | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorised
This anti-democratic ideology is unravelling before our eyes. Until recently, politicians, academics and journalists assumed that globalisation had rendered the nation state redundant. As they saw it, superior transnational institutions had displaced national forms of...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 14, 2022 | First World War, Politics and the Economy
It has all happened very, very quickly. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a little over two weeks ago, it has suddenly become painfully clear that the end of the Cold War did not mark the beginning of an era of permanent peace after all. For too long we have...