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.
 
       
 

Have today’s young people been dealt a bad hand by the older generation?
Radio Four, 28 August 2010
Shiv Malik, one of the authors of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted Its Youth, and sociologist Professor Frank Furedi debate the battle of the generations.

Down Under: the danse macabre of labourism
spiked, 24 August 2010
The political quake in Australia echoes what is also occurring in Britain and across Europe: the final demise of social democracy.

Nick Clegg takes ‘parental determinism’ to a new low
spiked, 19 August 2010
It is mad to claim, as the deputy PM does, that poor parenting is more important than poverty in screwing up children’s life chances.

Ideas of the century: Scepticism
The Philosophers' Magazine, 16 August 2010
Frank Furedi on an old idea that’s more important than ever.

Parenting isn’t a bunch of skills that can be taught
spiked, 10 August 2010
Frank Field’s proposal to have a GCSE in parenting would denigrate both what it means to be a parent and the purpose of education.

The crisis in education
Five Books, 13 July 2010
In this interview, Frank Furedi discusses five of the best books.

Bomberna skapade debatt om samhället
Aftonbladet, 7 July 2010
Fem år senare minns britterna Londonbomberna.

Why BP is not very slick in an emergency
spiked, 21 June 2010
When companies adhere to the rituals of risk-aversion, they lose sight of how to deal with real emergencies. Now we can see the consequences.

Why I will always stand up for permissiveness
spiked, 15 June 2010
The liberal commentators now deifying Mary Whitehouse are wrong to blame Sixties experimentation for contemporary decadence.

Weltuntergangswahn
Capital, 3 June 2010
Essay: Immer wenn ein Vulkan ausbricht oder eine Grippe, bereiten uns die Behörden auf das Schlimmstmögliche vor. Der Kampf gegen den Weltuntergang wird zur Routine. Der Schaden, den dieses Denken auslöst, ist gewaltig. Nicht nur, weil ein paar Flüge ausfallen.

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