Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear.
 
       
 

Articles by Frank Furedi

Now you need a licence to interact with children
spiked, 26 June 2008
The UK government’s hysterical vetting of adults who work with kids is strangling social solidarity.

Childcare: child’s play is now a minefield
Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2008
The vetting of adults who supervise children has become excessive.

After the Irish ‘No’ vote: pathologising populism
spiked, 23 June 2008
The EU elites’ Mugabe-style disdain for their populist opponents only shows how cut off they are from the people of Europe.

Bologna looms, so Zagreb marches. We barely notice
The Guardian, 17 June 2008
We should be having a discussion about the Bologna accord.

Now it’s clear: the EU is an alien imposition in Europe
spiked, 16 June 2008
They have been libelled as an uneducated ‘horde’, yet Irish voters’ rejection of the Lisbon Treaty is a brilliant blow against the EU oligarchy.

Barack Obama and the politicisation of lifestyle
spiked, 9 June 2008
The most striking thing about the 2008 race for the White House is the ‘blue’ elite’s unrestrained disdain for its ‘bitter’ moral inferiors.

The Bishop of Stafford: a 21st-century demonologist
spiked, 2 June 2008
A British bishop’s hysterical comparison of climate change deniers to Josef Fritzl shows how zealous the hunt for modern demons has become.

The rise and rise of the New Malthusianism
spiked, 30 May 2008
Fatal Misconception is a thorough study of the history of the population-control lobby – but it fatally underestimates how influential the new green-leaning Malthusianism has become.

iPod for their thoughts?
Times Higher Education, 29 May 2008
Relentless pressure to give a positive response to the National Student Survey breeds corruption and cynicism.

Crewe by-election: Farce War, not Class War
spiked, 21 May 2008
The Labour Party’s nasty campaign in Crewe and Nantwich exposes the petty, personalised and chauvinistic strain in contemporary politics.

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Other publications by Frank Furedi

Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism
(Continuum Press: September 2004)

Reviews by Theodore Dalrymple, Terry Eagleton and Roger Scruton.

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