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risk and fear
Hurricane Gustav and the incitement to panic
spiked,
3 September 2008
US officials’ overblown reaction to Gustav shows that the politics of worst-case thinking can seriously harm community safety and solidarity.
Gordon Brown’s register of risks? Rip it up
spiked,
25 March 2008
By labelling everything from terror to flu as a ‘security threat’, the PM is nurturing a jittery nation.
Britain: an island without a story
spiked,
20 February 2008
The latest UK report on terrorism is different to all the rest: it shows that Britain is making itself a target by advertising its vulnerability.
In 2008, let us challenge the Politics of Apocalypse
spiked,
27 December 2007
In the past year, the threat of doom – from weather, terror or disease – became an everyday, even banal issue. It’s time to inject a dose of humanism into public debate.
‘The war on terror is a symmetry of confusion’
spiked,
30 November 2007
Frank Furedi, author of Invitation to Terror: The Expanding Empire of the Unknown, talks to Brendan O’Neill about al-Qaeda, radicalisation, and what today’s political crisis has in common with the fall of Rome.
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.
Meet the Malthusians manipulating the fear of terror
spiked,
27 June 2007
From climate change doom-mongers to population alarmists, every kind of fear entrepreneur is piggy-backing on the ‘war on terrorism’.
The crusade against the A-word
spiked,
15 May 2007
The Orwellian removal of the word 'accident' from Britain's Highway Code shows we have a pretty primitive attitude to everyday misfortune
Virginia Tech: a massacre without meaning
spiked,
18 April 2007
The response to the horrific shootings runs the risk of spreading fear and loathing beyond VT’s dorms to society at large
We have nothing to fear but the culture of fear itself
spiked,
4 April 2007
How human thought and action are being stifled by a regime of uncertainty [pdf format] 
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