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Frank Furedi

Faversham

Author, commentator, sociologist, democratic populist https://t.co/BQOSY1fS0d Director of MCC Brussels -Humanist Liberal Education & of course #COYS⚽️

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  • Nostalgia as a Political Force

    3 days ago | compactmag.com | Frank Furedi

    In today’s cultural climate, pride in your nation’s past, affection for stable communities, intact families and, God forbid, the institution of marriage, are all invariably renounced by the great and the good as symptoms of the pathology of nostalgia. What might once have been a harmless indulgence is now rebranded as a political pathology. It is regressive, delusional, dangerous—and if populism’s electoral wins are anything to go by, spreading.

  • The Nation State Returns But Nationalism Awaits Its Rehabilitation

    5 days ago | frankfuredi.substack.com | Frank Furedi

    Outwardly at least it seems that the unravelling of ideology of globalisation has been paralleled by the return of the nation-state. The unashamed declaration of MAGA in the United States highlights the shift in balance from a globalised and cosmopolitan conception of the world order to one where the pursuit of national interest is self-consciously pursued.

  • The hilarious meltdown of men who think they’re women

    1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Brendan O'Neill |Frank Furedi

    I’ve found my soundtrack for spring: the caterwauling of fellas in dresses following text. It’s delicious. They’re raging about the ‘fascism’ of no longer being allowed to get their knobs out in the women’s changing room. They’re agonising over where they’re supposed to take a shit now. Their Adam’s apples are getting a mighty fine workout as they wail into the void about being ‘erased’ by ‘transphobes’.

  • What happened to all those female penises, Keir?

    1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Tom Slater |Frank Furedi

    The Supreme Court ruling might just have broken the spell of trans mania. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Women have penises. Men can grow cervixes. Babies aren’t born with a biological sex. Show me a batshit take on transgenderism and I’ll show you a high-profile Labour Party figure who has gladly spouted it.

  • Schools are waging war on parents’ free speech

    1 week ago | spiked-online.com | Joanna Williams |Frank Furedi

    Complaining about your kid’s school can now get you banned from the premises or even arrested. Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. That schools should ‘teach ABC not gender identity’ is not an unreasonable expectation. Yet it seems insisting on this was enough to get one mother banned from her daughter’s primary school.

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21 Apr 25

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We need to seize the opportunity presented by the return of the nation state to rehabilitate nationalism. Why? Because nationalism offers people the opportunity to forge the kind of motivating solidarity that can overcome the fragmented existence offered by a world of https://t.co/lrbpqVuL0e