Disasters have a nasty habit of appearing from nowhere. They catch communities unaware, and people struggle to understand what a disaster...

It is clear that many people throughout Europe and beyond really fear the threat posed by the coronavirus. So much so that the vast...

Britain has gone into lockdown. Outwardly it seems that everything has changed. But the reality is different. The cultural patterns of...

People who raise doubts about the set up of a police state in response to Covid-19 are denounced as irresponsible idiots. But those who...

Covid-19 is a disaster without precedent. Not primarily in terms of the disease itself, but in terms of how we have responded to it. The...

Green zealots want to turn the global catastrophe of Covid-19 into fuel for their alarmist extinction narrative. By blaming humanity’s...

Throughout history, humanity’s response to major disasters has been shaped by the prevailing attitudes of the day. Our views on the...

It does not help that numerous psychologists are telling us ‘don’t let coronavirus tip society into panic’. As a sociologist with a...

I became a university lecturer almost 50 years ago, in 1974. At that time in British higher education, there were occasional attempts to...

‘How did British Indians become so prominent in the Conservative Party?’, asked Neha Shah in the Guardian. It is a question many on the...

The ease with which Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury, was isolated and asked by officials of his party to apologise...

Once again an act of terror has been committed on Britain’s streets by a convicted terrorist who had served only half of his sentence....

There is nothing unusual about the outbreak of a new virus. In fact, in recent years, such outbreaks have become almost normal. Avian flu...

A few years ago, when I visited a well-known music venue in Nashville, Tennessee, I was struck by a feeling that there was something...

In this series, writers give their verdict on the previous decade and predictions for the next. Here, Frank Furedi reflects on the decade...

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

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

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

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

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