Risk & Fear

Does the word ‘ladies’ make you feel unsafe?

The culture of safetyism on campus is becoming increasingly absurd 22November 2021 https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/22/does-the-word...

ON THE LOCKDOWN LIFESTYLE

30 April, 2021, SPIKED For almost half a century, fear has dominated the outlook of Western societies. One of the distinctive features of...

Challenging Our Fatalistic Addiction to Safety

From The Paris Institute https://parisinstitute.org/depictions-article-challenging-our-fatalistic-addiction-to-safety/ The aim of this...

Incels - Be Careful Before You Call Them Terrorist!

4 March 2021 RT I wince when I read when someone wants to promiscuously brand any group they don’t like ‘terrorists’. The recent calls to...

Towards a fearless future

25th December 2020 When governments the world over began imposing lockdowns in response to Covid-19 earlier this year, I was surprised by...

‘Safe Spaces’ Enjoying A Morbid Surge In Coronavirus

1 June 2020 The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/safe-spaces-enjoying-a-morbid-surge-in-coronavirus...

Parents, overcome your fears

14 May 2020 https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/14/parents-overcome-your-fears/#.Xrz1-KcugFM.twitter Schools can't stay locked down...

Why the government should not always ‘follow the science’

'Evidence' has been turned into a gospel truth and that's bad for political decision-making. 20 May 2020 Spiked....

Adversity begets brave new world

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

Don’t sacrifice freedom at the altar of safety

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

Coronavirus and the culture of fear

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

Scaring children witless

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

Don’t turn the Christchurch killer into Voldemort

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

Our age of anxiety

“We look upon our epoch as a time of troubles, an age of anxiety. The grounds of our civilisation, of our certitude, are breaking up...

The crusade against masculinity

Toxic masculinity has emerged as the target of choice of many identitarians. That said, the term itself has almost become redundant,...

How ‘gender neutrality’ could screw up the next generation

At first sight, the call from Ann Millington, chief executive of Kent Fire and Rescue, to change the name of the children’s TV character...