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Author, commentator, sociologist, democratic populist Director of MCC Brussels -Humanist Liberal Education & of course #COYS ⚽️

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Sorry, but the real problem is not students but collaborationist administrators and academics and their colleagues who keep silent. How many academics at Sussex went public to defend Stock & the principle of academic freedom?
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I really wish that for once, primary schools were told to teach children how to read, acquire a love for books, learn to count & learn about their history.
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BBC refers to the murderers who killed this woman as 'Hamas Fighters' ! This publicly funded institution has lost sight of the distinction between a fighter and the perpetrators of an atrocity on on ordinary civilians
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Me in the Daily Mail
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The behaviour of the Metropolitan Police in this incident is both cowardly and disgusting. It is cowardly because they would rather appease the Pro Hamas marchers than protect the right to peaceful protest
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@GhorbaniiNiyak Yep, absolutely disgusting what the police have done
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When you only talk to people like yourself! Newsweek recalls 125,000 copies of souvenir Madam President issue via
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As someone who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, I really resent when people opportunistically plunder its memory for petty political point scoring.
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Guy Verhofstadt
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Today we remember the victims of the Holocaust. This tragedy was the worst example of what extreme nationalism can lead to. The European Union was created to ensure this will never happen again #WeAreEurope 🇪🇺 #HolocaustMemorialDay
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A really silly idea - contrary to Blair's claim - this would be an effective way of lowering productivity. A nation of baristas with degrees that are not worth the paper they are printed on.
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Getting rid of Homer is to rip the heart out of a classical education. Might as well replace classics with a degree in diversity studies
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Family outing - Furedis are united in their determination of ensuring that Never Again means Never Again
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4 years
Whatever the limits of Johnson's statement- the reaction is far worse, It reflects a distaste for exercising discretion a disbelief that people have common sense & can be trusted to use their judgment.
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4 years
Paradox - the people who have complained for 4 Years about Trump interfering in British policies are now encouraging Biden to exercise his influence over Brexit negotiations. They are very selective about who gets to interfere in another nation's affairs.
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Listening to PM's press conference- it seems that media is egging on the Government to impose a total lock down - whereas Government is more aware of importance of having the freedom of the outdoors.
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At least somebody refuses to roll over and embrace the ritual of an anachronistic empty gesture. Spain refuses to apologise for conquering Mexico five hundred years ago via @telegraphnews
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Frank Furedi
3 years
How a once serious academic institution has turned into a clinic for producing low-level psychosis. Best example of the tragic trend towards the moral disintegration of higher education.
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Frank Furedi
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Sunak and others have developed a relation of equivalence between 'Far Right Thugs and Hamas supporters'. They invented the threat of far right thugs in order to distract attention from the challenge posed by supporters of Hamas. Why? I assume it is because either they are scared
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A very, very creepy statement. The term 'rejecting hate' now serves as a vile metaphor for emptying women's sport of real meaning.
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Harvard Athletics
2 years
Harvard Athletics stands with Penn Athletics, and the Ivy League, in the support of all student-athletes and in rejecting hate and transphobia in our community.
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Terrorists are not burglars or thieves - they cannot be rehabilitated. Jeremy Corbyn calls for focus on rehabilitation of terrorists in prison
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@zei_squirrel Very profound from you- after all your mates only murdered 250 of the young festival goers - no doubt punishment for daring to dance to techno music
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This is how the administrative state works In Scotland - 5 government funded groups invited for 'consultation' to create the impression that policy makers actually listen. Nauseating.
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Decolonising Beethoven or Wagner has nothing to do with colonies or slavery - it is entirely motivated by an unrestrained impulse to de-legitimate every dimension of Europe's cultural legacy.
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3 years
I have spent ages thinking about this before I wrote it. Would love to have some feedback. The free-speech crisis is not a right-wing myth
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Good News - now and again you hear something that makes you feel optimistic about the world! Dutch pro-farmers party wins big in provincial elections
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i am totally with this brave professor.
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I wrote this because the hatred directed at classical music is driven by an impulse to tear out the soul -not just of of European culture - but of the Enlightenment.
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If Rowling is not allowed to be true to herself and say that what she sees is a man and not a woman society is in big trouble. Whether someone is a woman is determined by biology and not by a silly law
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It is this kind of so-called study that demonstrates the brain-dead character of so much funded research in the social sciences and the humanities. Shakespeare made theatre too 'white, male and cisgender', study finds
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4 years
@pritipatel @UKLabour Reads like a jumped-up totalitarian's ultimatum - 'either accept our version of what it means to be black or you are cast out of society'!
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Many don't seem to understand that her performance of hating whites is just another way of expressing the new cultural conformism of simpletons obsessed with identity politics.She is not racist just a schmuck. NY Times stands by 'racist tweets' reporter
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The word 'dead' is even more interesting than her philistine contempt for knowledge based curriculum. Detaching students from the past serves as a recipe for subjecting them to the hegemony of fad; the shallow diversity of pedagogic fads.
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The Educator Magazine UK
6 years
Schools must look beyond 'dead white men' to make the curriculum more diverse, teacher..
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4 years
Everytime I hear someone use the term 'white people' you can tell that they believe that it is an intrinsically pejorative term. It has become a way of expressing 21st century prejudice. White people = source of all evil.
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Laughing at children like this? They are immoral scum.
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BREAKING: Hamas displays kidnapped Israeli children in cages as they laugh about it. It's estimated there're hundreds of Israeli citizens, mostly women and children, held hostage in Gaza Strip. Currently, more than 600 Israelis have been killed as the conflict enters day two.
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Frank Furedi
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Thou shalt not criticise St Meghan
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I admired Prince Phillip. In a discussion on outdoor adventure and risk taking he told me how sad it was that so many dimension of human experience get labeled by risk-averse campaigners as a 'risk'. RIP!!!!!
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Me on an intellectual hero of our times. Roger Scruton and the burden of non-conformism
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At some point this organisation has given up on its mission of protecting children and embraced trans ideology and is now complicit in the sexuialisation and adultification of children. NSPCC whistleblower quits charity over trans grooming row claims
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Maybe university chiefs could devote a bit of their energy to improving the quality of higher education instead of imposing their prejudice on their academic community. University chief bans all beef from campus in fight against 'climate change emergency'
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In fact actors should stop acting altogether and simply be themselves. So only serial killers can play the role of a.........
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When the reality of woman of the species is denied human civilisation itself is called into question. 'How do we stop this' is the challenge facing normal rational people.
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Badenoch is absolutely right - she understands academic research standards more than the ideologically motivated academic supporters of this so-called study.
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4 years
My new book is out today!!!
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Frank Furedi
4 years
However this so-called 'tiny minority' has a disproportionate impact on the media, institutions of culture and education- which has a powerful influence on public life and policy.
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Frank Furedi
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Only the beginning. The medicalising of childhood will continue to disempower children and erode their capacity to deal with the problems of existence. Only a society that has lost its way can embrace this form of socialisation.
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The Telegraph
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The number of children having therapy for anxiety has risen by 60 per cent in two years, new figures show
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Wrote this on….Nudge’ has no place in our democracy
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The most important event in my life-the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 broke out today. The love of freedom shown by those who fought the Stalinist dictatorship inspires me to this day.
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You could not make this up. Suggest that this campaigning group change its name. Its neither national nor worthy of trust!.
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Frank Furedi
7 years
I received numerous emails from academics backing my stand on Brexit & asserting that they're scared to go public Shame! We need more voices
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The Guardian
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I voted for Brexit – why do academic colleagues treat me like a pariah?
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Frank Furedi
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Only a matter of time before these schmucks at the Home Office decide to celebrate foot-binding day. ‘Tone deaf’ Home Office marked World Hijab Day despite guidance on forced dress code ‘persecution’
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This is surreal. You want to know about pressure- try working in a call centre, a mine, a hospital, a factory. Articles like this unwittingly cultivate a sense of helplessness & disorientation amongst a relatively privileged section of society and turn campuses into a clinic.
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Times Higher Education
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For academics and students alike, pressure to perform coupled with a lack of institutional support can severely affect mental health: @sophie_inge and @THEuniadvice report
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The stakes are high. We definitely need more brave academics!!! Meet the academics hunted down and hounded out of jobs for having the 'wrong' thoughts
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These gestures are so unnecessary. Why should anyone who is alive today bear responsibility for injustices committed 10 centuries ago. In any case they can never put right what the church did in the past. Concentrate on the evils of today.
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@guyverhofstadt Verhofstadt lives parasitically on the pain of others - a real scum.
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What I worry about is the declining status of the warrior ethos in the army The social engineering project designed to portray the army as just another normal institution diminishes its capacity to defend the nation's interest. Its Ok for the post office to be normal-not the army
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The Telegraph
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Colonel Tim Collins: The ludicrous and dangerous morass into which obsequious and PC-addled senior officers have led the British Army is a source of real concern to every citizen of the nation #premium
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A statement from the heart
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Events in Israel have demonstrated that many think there is something called an 'excusable pogrom'. @Furedibyte explains the rise of a barbaric worldview.
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It's not just a software mistake. Inexorable consequence of an attitude that confuses worst case thinking with most likely outcomes. Scaremongering masquerading as science!
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The mainstream media does not get it or refuses to acknowledge the fact that the real issue is not radicalised extreme right wing thugs but the powerful corrosive influences that that undermine Irish society. Irish police chief warns of further disruption by far right after
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My thoughts on the threat facing freedom and ideal of tolerance. In 2020, we need to fight the new thoughtpolice
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Education continues to give way to indoctrination in our schools. Reminds me of my childhood in Hungary during the Stalinist era, where we had to learn about the privilege of class enemies.
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Advocacy researchers know in advance what they look for. Can you imagine university researchers ever concluding that they found no racism? Grievance Archaeology will find that needle of racism in the haystack & turn it into TV programme.
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Frank Furedi
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There was a time when the left was actually left - and took democracy seriously. Listen to Tony Benn-arguably the most principled figure in the old Labour Left.
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"There are men who give their lives for the right to self government, independence, democracy. We are being invited to give up those rights..." Tony Benn, Secretary of State for Industry, on Britain's membership of the #European Common Market. #Brexit #PeoplesVote
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See my Thoughts on a very, very disturbing development. Big Brother comes to America
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Frank Furedi
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This seems like an incredibly stupid initiative. It transforms pupils to become potential mental health patients and encourages them to become obsessed about their emotional state. What a way to mess kids up.
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Michael Tracey
2 years
Seems doubtful that “daily emotion check-ins” at school are actually conducive to the emotional well-being of students
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First you have the racialisation of everything -now you have the medicalisation of racism. It is as if the western world is haunted by a morally illiterate obsession with human pathologies.
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Closing schools massive mistake! Don't blame Gov-they were under tremendous pressure to do the wrong thing. Best response to a disaster is to strengthen community & schools are at its heart! Closures further fragment community- just when we need solidarity
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Totally nuts! Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules
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Frank Furedi
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Listen to BBC Today programme. Everyone uses the word 'surprise' to describe the disintegration of Afghanistan's Potemkin Government. What dishonest airheads? Surprise? Anyone with slightest grasp of the situation knew that there was nothing to stop the Taliban
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Frank Furedi
4 years
When did the police become bystanders in uniform. Extinction Rebellion protesters deface Churchill statue despite police presence
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Interesting to note that the mainstream media report of the shooting of Fico is very different to the way they discuss violent attacks directed on centrist politicians. Little sympathy, no talk of the threat posed by political violence instead Fico is condemned as Putin's man.
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Frank Furedi
4 years
No it should not! We should not seeks to criminalise views - no matter how abhorrent - that we disagree with it. Rely on sound arguments rather than the language police.
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Despite all the talk about stopping the slide of universities down the pit of philistine wokeness the situation is getting worse and worse. Outcry as university tells staff to teach that whiteness and heterosexuality are a problem
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An out of touch technocrat who represents no one but people like him. Leo Varadkar resigns as Irish prime minister 'for personal and political reasons'
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From this standpoint a conservative who takes tradition and communal values seriously is automatically a bigot. Bigotry is defines as unreasonable religious zeal & the author of this piece exemplifies the bigotry of zealous anti-conservatism.
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Civil Servants taught that the term '“adult human female' is bigoted'! They are are not just miseducated but indoctrinated.
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Frank Furedi
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My new book will be published end of October. It is written for everyone interested in defending democracy against the anti-populist forces of cancel culture. Pre-order it now
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The rewriting of history through subjecting medieval England to contemporary fadish views about intersectionality turns the past into a playground for practicing grievance archeology. Projecting contemporary prejudice on the past drives this new sport. ‘Racism in medieval
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We all know why they are not in prison- because the criminal justice system applies different standards to different types of protest. Theirs is a risk-free protest. The only people who pay a price are normal people trying to get on with their lives
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He would wouldn't he - he and his lot are Stonewall in robes. Justin Welby gives backing to trans students amid free speech rows
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Frank Furedi
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@TitaniaMcGrath It's true images of lean looking footballers sends out the wrong message and undermines the self-esteem so many people. There must be a quota of at leat two seriously heavy players on each team.
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Raises question of why the BBC is on the constant look out for bad news - BBC correction on Burberry coronavirus plea
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