Frank Furedi

Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence.
 
       
 

society and civility

Hating Tesco: a passion of both the PC and the BNP
spiked, 11 May 2011
Trendy leftists and far-right activists disagree on many things, but they have one conviction in common: supermarkets are evil.

The culture war behind the Will’n’Kate debate
spiked, 26 April 2011
The wedding has exposed big fault lines within the British elite, with defensive monarchists on one side and snobbish cynics on the other.

A nation too timid to fly the flag
The Australian, 23 April 2011
Next week's royal wedding provides valuable insights into how far civic pride has been undermined by the culture wars.

It’s time to stand up for courage and conviction
spiked, 10 November 2010
Machiavelli and other humanists would have been appalled by today’s bureaucratisation of everyday life that threatens vital public virtues.

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.

This week on The Forum
BBC World Service, 5 October 2008
Clinical psychologist Dorothy Rowe explores our intimacy and rivalry with our brothers and sisters, American economist Marshall Goldman shows us how powerful Russia has become and sociologist Frank Furedi claims we could be trapped by our own dire predictions.

From Finland to west London: a culture of death?
spiked, 12 November 2007
The Finnish school shooter and Britain’s ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ seem worlds apart. Yet both are products of the globalisation of misanthropy.

Are ‘terrorist groomers’ warping our kids?
spiked, 6 November 2007
In turning terrorism into a child protection issue, where we must shield fragile youth from sleazy al-Qaeda, Britain has abandoned the battle of ideas.

Disturbing youth trend: Drinking to get drunk
Daily Telegraph, 23 September 2007
It's the way that British teenagers drink that is the problem.

It’s time that we all ‘interfered’ more
The Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2006
We need to take more responsbility for our communities

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