In this series, writers give their verdict on the previous decade and predictions for the next. Here, Frank Furedi reflects on the decade when no-platforming...

During the past decade, and especially this year, those in positions of influence have tried to change the narrative through which society understands itself...

The General Election demonstrated yet again that the most important division in UK politics is between old and young. Survey after survey indicates that ther...

As someone who is naturally suspicious about the idea that racism, xenophobia, homophobia and Islamophobia are on the rise, I felt sceptical towards the clai...

Until recently only children were expected to play and pretend they were someone else — a scary lion, Alexander the Great or Superman. Now adults, too, can j...

No doubt many people were appalled when they heard that Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, had told the German weekly die Zeit that there w...

I felt genuinely spooked when I heard that gravestones in a 300-year-old Jewish cemetery in Rochester in Kent had been smashed just a few hours before Yom Ki...

The issue of language is becoming more and more acrimonious and controversial. Politicians are attacked not so much for their views and policies as for the w...

I was genuinely shocked by the news that Freddy McConnell, a transgender man who retained his female reproductive organs and gave birth to a child, lost his ...

‘Eco-anxiety’ has become the latest fashionable malaise. Apparently it is afflicting many children. That kids as young as four and five are feeling anxious a...

The 17th-century philosopher, John Locke, is often described as the father of modern liberalism. Now a recently discovered manuscript titled ‘Reasons for tol...

As politicians and pundits commemorate the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland, it is telling that there is more focus on this tragic event than ever ...

There is a difference between an individual deciding not to have children and someone embracing the view that there is something inherently wrong with mother...

Students in higher education are increasingly classified as either disabled or as suffering from mental-health issues. Disability on campuses has become the ...

As far as the mainstream Western media are concerned, Vladimir Putin’s interview during the recent G20 summit with the Financial Times was nothing short of a...

How the mental-health panic is messing up the next generation. We live in a world in which children and young people are constantly told they are at risk of ...

Anyone who dares to criticise the billionaire speculator George Soros can expect to be denounced as an anti-Semite. So last week, when Roger Scruton spoke un...

The latest challenge to the European Union political oligarchy comes from the Netherlands, where Thierry Baudet and his Forum voor Democratie emerged as the ...

I can totally understand why New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern stated that she will never utter the name of the Christchurch mass murderer. She dec...

Identity politics has been steadily growing in influence. Until recently, however, the promoters of identity politics tended to deny that they were adhering ...