Tag archive for ‘fear’
A personal political journey
I voted for the Tories in 1997. It was my first ever election, I was 18, and the Conservatives had been in power my whole life. I knew nothing about politics and I educated myself about neither the parties’ policies nor the local candidates. I voted Tory because I feared the unknown: the huge change [...]
Primary school “paedophile” prompts cyber-bullying panic
The Guardian is reporting that pupils as young as 10 in Padstow, Cornwall, may have been posing as paedophiles online in order to bully their peers. “Police initially believed a local man was trying to groom the children by befriending them online and arranging to meet them.” The subsequent discovery that it was probably just [...]
Fear or terror – which is the greater threat?
The Government has decided to post the UK terror threat level on the home office and MI5 websites. On 1 August, a new public system of alerts will replace the existing mechanism which, despite being secret, was widely leaked and speculated upon. As with the existing system, the new (slightly simplified) threat levels will have [...]