by Frank Furedi | Apr 29, 2021 | Culture Wars, Parenting
The British Board of Film Classification has stepped into the trans debate by highlighting five films for families to watch and discuss. But it’s not the job of an official censor to promote films that advocate certain ideologies. Who would have imagined that, one...
by Frank Furedi | Apr 29, 2021 | COVID-19, Therapy Culture
Watch out, fellow Covid inmates – our long-awaited liberation from house arrest may apparently cause anxiety, stress and ‘Reentry Syndrome’. Or is this all just another case of ‘Makee-Uppee Syndrome’? Why am I not surprised that mental health charities are now warning...
by Frank Furedi | Apr 24, 2021 | Academic Freedom and Free Speech
Too many on what passes for the left today are keen to dismiss the free-speech crisis in universities as a ‘right-wing myth’. They brush off the countless examples of censorship as overhyped. And they ignore concerns about the moral policing of dissenting views. In...
by Frank Furedi | Apr 24, 2021 | COVID-19, Therapy Culture
It seems that the only legitimate grounds on which the UK government’s lockdown policy can now be criticised is that of mental health. Take the The Sunday Times this weekend. It featured an article about how Covid has spread an ‘epidemic of fear’ among the young, and...
by Frank Furedi | Apr 21, 2021 | Culture Wars
By criminalising misogyny we accept the totalitarian idea of thought crime, because in a just society people are prosecuted for what they do, but not what they think. Have you noticed that we live in an age where a variety of different campaigns are constantly calling...