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.
 
       
 

politics and the economy

Message to EU meddlers: Hands off Hungary!
spiked, 23 January 2012
Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers.

Eurokrise: Wohin mit der lästigen Demokratie?
Novo Argumente, 11 January 2012
In den vergangenen Monaten ist deutlich geworden, dass die Europäische Union nicht bloß unter einem Demokratiedefizit leidet.

Attitudes towards protesters show depth of our moral vacuity
The Australian, 31 December 2011
All that is asked of potential moral role models today is that they complain, voice their emotion and make a public statement.

Exposed: the snobbery and intolerance of the EU elite
spiked, 14 December 2011
The chattering classes’ hysterical reaction to David Cameron’s veto of a revised Lisbon Treaty reveals the dark heart of pro-EU sentiment.

How the EU oligarchy has downsized democracy
spiked, 29 November 2011
ESSAY: So-called liberals and leftists have become obsessed with constructing a political firewall between the elite and the multitude.

The power and the passion lost in procedure
The Australian, 12 November 2011
For some time now it has been evident that politics has become lost for words.

100% säkert att de inte företräder 99%
Voltaire, 7 November 2011
Nittionio procent är en enastående hög andel av befolkningen. När medlemmar av den globala ockupationsrörelsen hävdar att de är ”de 99 procenten” påstår de sig tala för så gott som alla människor.

Why church officials worship these protesters
spiked, 1 November 2011
No attempt to depict Occupy London as a Second Coming of angry Jesuses can disguise the fact that it remains a shallow moral gesture.

Anyone with an axe to grind can join the 99 per cent’s street performance
The Australian, 29 October 2011
As a sociologist I am always suspicious when I am told that a dimension of human experience is beyond comprehension or that it "defies simple characterisation".

It’s 100% certain that they don’t represent 99%
spiked, 27 October 2011
The occupiers’ claim to speak for ‘the 99%’ exposes how determined they are to avoid hard political debate in favour of cheap moralising.

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