by Frank Furedi | May 7, 2020 | COVID-19
Disasters have a nasty habit of appearing from nowhere. They catch communities unaware, and people struggle to understand what a disaster such as COVID-19 really means. Finding meaning in an apparently meaningless threat to human lives has continually invited...
by Frank Furedi | May 7, 2020 | Risk and Fear
It is clear that many people throughout Europe and beyond really fear the threat posed by the coronavirus. So much so that the vast majority have willingly abandoned their way of life, given up their rights and fundamental freedoms, and accepted a government-imposed...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Politics and the Economy
Britain has gone into lockdown. Outwardly it seems that everything has changed. But the reality is different. The cultural patterns of the past continue to influence the way communities experience and respond to Covid-19. The response of government policymakers,...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19
People who raise doubts about the set up of a police state in response to Covid-19 are denounced as irresponsible idiots. But those who want to be locked down have no monopoly on wisdom, we must resist the locking down of debate. At first, I could not believe what I...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 20, 2020 | COVID-19
Covid-19 is a disaster without precedent. Not primarily in terms of the disease itself, but in terms of how we have responded to it.The impact of Covid-19 on people’s lives and on economic, social and global relations, both now and in the future, is likely to be more...