by Frank Furedi | Mar 20, 2020 | COVID-19
Green zealots want to turn the global catastrophe of Covid-19 into fuel for their alarmist extinction narrative. By blaming humanity’s impact on the planet for the outbreak, they hope to mobilize support for their cause. The hastily cobbled together green playbook on...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Politics and the Economy
Throughout history, humanity’s response to major disasters has been shaped by the prevailing attitudes of the day. Our views on the meaning of life, on human efficacy, and on how to manage uncertainty have all impacted on how we deal with severe crises. These...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 10, 2020 | COVID-19
It does not help that numerous psychologists are telling us ‘don’t let coronavirus tip society into panic’. As a sociologist with a professional interest in how fear works I can confirm that nobody decides to panic. People panic when the messages communicated to them...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 9, 2020 | Academic Freedom and Free Speech
I became a university lecturer almost 50 years ago, in 1974. At that time in British higher education, there were occasional attempts to shut down discussion and limit freedom of speech. But the vast majority of academics and students were relatively open-minded, and...
by Frank Furedi | Mar 2, 2020 | Culture Wars, Religion and Belief
‘How did British Indians become so prominent in the Conservative Party?’, asked Neha Shah in the Guardian. It is a question many on the identitarian left like to ask. It is based on the assumption that something serious has gone wrong when 15 per cent of the cabinet...