http://www.frankfuredi.comindex.php/site/index/ en jennie@bristow.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-08T02:50:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/hating_bankers_a_global_sport/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/hating_bankers_a_global_sport/#When:02:50:00Z The simpleton's denunciation of money as the source of all evil has been transformed into a demonology used by any public figure in search of applause. politics and the economy 2012-02-08T02:50:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/more_students_and_more_degrees_do_not_a_smarter_country_make/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/more_students_and_more_degrees_do_not_a_smarter_country_make/#When:09:54:00Z Unfortunately Australia has adopted Britain's policy of increasing the number of students studying in higher education beyond the point where it makes sense. education and culture 2012-02-04T09:54:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/review_together_the_rituals_pleasures_and_politics_of_cooperation/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/review_together_the_rituals_pleasures_and_politics_of_cooperation/#When:09:26:00Z Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to. reviews, society and civility 2012-02-02T09:26:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/how_atheism_became_a_religion_in_all_but_name/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/how_atheism_became_a_religion_in_all_but_name/#When:11:11:00Z It was only a matter of time before someone proposed an ‘atheist temple’, given the religious-like zealotry and dogma of the New Atheists. religion and belief 2012-02-01T11:11:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/parents_must_be_free_to_chastise_and_also_to_smack/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/parents_must_be_free_to_chastise_and_also_to_smack/#When:09:47:00Z Tottenham MP David Lammy should be commended for stating that parents need to have the right to smack their children in order to restrain them from anti-social behaviour. parenting 2012-01-31T09:47:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/message_to_eu_meddlers_hands_off_hungary/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/message_to_eu_meddlers_hands_off_hungary/#When:17:44:01Z Brussels’ culture war against the ‘white savages’ of Hungary is destroying democracy and helping to boost reactionary right-wingers. politics and the economy 2012-01-23T17:44:01+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/racism_no_longer_an_objective_act_of_oppression_but_an_inherently_subjectiv/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/racism_no_longer_an_objective_act_of_oppression_but_an_inherently_subjectiv/#When:12:09:00Z The promotion of the idea that racism is prevalent and that its unwitting variant is even more widespread prompts people to interpret each other's behaviour and language through the prism of race. race 2012-01-21T12:09:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/social_inclusion_unit_leave_me_out/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/social_inclusion_unit_leave_me_out/#When:21:12:00Z Far from being a desirable objective, social inclusion is an unusually vapid idea. therapy culture 2012-01-14T21:12:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/eurokrise_wohin_mit_der_laestigen_demokratie/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/eurokrise_wohin_mit_der_laestigen_demokratie/#When:21:06:00Z In den vergangenen Monaten ist deutlich geworden, dass die Europäische Union nicht bloß unter einem Demokratiedefizit leidet. politics and the economy 2012-01-11T21:06:00+00:00 http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/declaring_war_against_bluster_and_rhetoric/ http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/declaring_war_against_bluster_and_rhetoric/#When:09:38:00Z In 2012, Frank Furedi will be writing a monthly column on the hollow words and thoughts of twenty-first-century political life. This month, he reclaims the word ‘conversation’. 'Hollow Thoughts' column 2012-01-09T09:38:00+00:00