Risk & Fear

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

“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...

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

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...