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...

Nov 28, 20214 min read

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

Jul 25, 202110 min read

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

Apr 29, 202116 min read

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...

Apr 17, 20213 min read

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

Feb 21, 202113 min read

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

Jun 21, 20205 min read

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

Jun 21, 20205 min read

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

Jun 21, 20205 min read

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

May 7, 20206 min read

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

May 7, 20207 min read

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

Jan 30, 20204 min read

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

Sep 19, 20194 min read

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

Mar 21, 20193 min read

“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...

Feb 6, 201913 min read

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

Jan 21, 20194 min read

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...

Sep 17, 20184 min read