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

Ignore this missive from our downbeat doctors
spiked, 28 July 2008
The British Medical Journal’s insistence that people should have fewer children speaks to our misanthropic, Malthusian, baby-fearing times.

Photographing children becomes a crime
Pajamas Media, 22 July 2008
The paranoid belief that all photos represent a threat to kids is more widespread than ever.

Media obsession risks normalising knife crime
The First Post, 16 July 2008
The hysteria about knife crime could cause real damage before it fades away.

The rise of China — threat or opportunity?
spiked, 15 July 2008
From Green fears to Cold War fantasies, the West’s own cultural confusion explains why it cannot make its mind up about China.

Thou shalt not hug
New Statesman, 26 June 2008
In a new report, I argue that the culture of vetting adults is damaging relationships between the generations.

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.

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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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