Fear

In Hard Times, We See Ghosts More Often

Endeavour Press | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK
Endeavour Press

Last time we had a global depression the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to buck people up by announcing: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". The trouble is that fear itself can be very frightening.

The Race to the Right on Immigration

Bob Morgan | Posted 24.05.2013 | UK Politics
Bob Morgan

Immigration is a complex issue involving people from many different parts of the world coming to the UK for a variety of reasons - it's complicated and simple 'soundbite' solutions will do more harm than good.

How To Live Without Fear

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

How far would you go to conquer your fears? Thrill seekers in Russia are pushing themselves to the limit by embarking on a new training course to i...

The Only Way Is Up... Baby

Alex Hawley | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK Comedy
Alex Hawley

I'm a little bit frightened of all the usual things - death, dentists and décolletage decorum - but I'm completely and utterly terrified of heights, especially those with me at the wrong end of them.

Velcro And Pastry: The Weirdest Phobias Ever?

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Half inspired by the ghoulish spirit of Halloween and half by the recent revelation that HuffPost UK Lifestyle's (seemingly normal) desk buddy is petr...

Reclaim the Night

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 15.07.2012 | UK Politics
The Cambridge Union Society

A piece of advice for the population at large: young girls wear short skirts. They do. This is not a picture of asking for rape. This is an on-going discovery of one's sexuality, the equivalent of a teenage boy waking up and deciding suddenly that he wants to hoik his trousers down past his bottom so his Gap boxers, bought by his mother, are on show.

Why You're Missing Out on Life (and How to Change That)

Emma Brooke | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Emma Brooke

Whilst we all have responsibilities and we all have to earn enough to put food on the table and pays the bills, it means very little if we don't wake up feeling alive and excited about life.

The Culture of Fear

Michelle Holmes | Posted 16.06.2012 | UK
Michelle Holmes

Growing up in south-east London I was all too familiar with the presence of the theory of racism. Living about five minutes away from the BNP headquar...

Is a Painful Childbirth all in Your Head?

Alice Grist | Posted 14.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Alice Grist

Hypnobirthing starts from the premise that the pain commonly felt in childbirth is not a natural side effect of birth but rather it stems from fear.

How Social Fear Inhibits Our Freedom in the West

Ziad El-Hady | Posted 20.05.2012 | UK
Ziad El-Hady

We have become a culture that accepts fear and caution as an integral part of life. Growing security measures and high crime rates, which are then further exaggerated largely through the media, only heighten this condition of fear, inhibiting both our social and psychological freedoms.

WATCH: Young Girl Conquers Her Fears During Ski Jump

Huffington Post UK | Alastair Plumb | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Comedy

Now there's some serious debate about whether the 'girl' in this video is, in fact, a young person of the feminine persuasion. Could she not be a pre-...

Do You have a Monster Under Your Bed? Inspiration from a Seven Year Old

Alice Grist | Posted 28.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Alice Grist

I recently spent the afternoon with my beautiful seven-year-old friend Lainey. Out of the blue she told me that she had seen something on a film that ...

Let it Go: A Beginners Guide to a Healthy, Happy Mind

Alice Grist | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Alice Grist

Let it go, let it be, release, relax, stop worrying, chill. How often are you told this, or how often do you tell yourself this and in actuality fail miserably to achieve any of these seemingly simple concepts?

Facing Your Fears

Emma Brooke | Posted 09.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Emma Brooke

This is the story of how my dad conquered his fear. I was on holiday with my parents and my brother. Yes it might be a strange thing for a 20-somethi...

How to be Fearless Without Being Reckless

Emma Brooke | Posted 02.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Emma Brooke

I was thinking this afternoon about what might hold someone back from doing something big and scary and the only thing I could come up with was this.....

Uncertainty: What Will Be the Future of the UK?

Chidubem Nwabufo | Posted 25.07.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Chidubem Nwabufo

It's a topic that has been harped on about so much in the last few years; thanks to the recession and all the economic uncertainties. But you wouldn't think that the uncertainty of the future would be a bother to a first year university student.

Eight Legs, No Soul

Kate Harrad | Posted 30.12.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Kate Harrad

In the spirit of the season, I was talking to my daughter the other day about our biggest fears: I said mine was spiders, and being trapped in small dark spaces, and being trapped in small dark spaces with spiders.

Five Ways To Tackle Fear - And Make It Fear You

Kyrsty Hazell | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK Lifestyle

The word 'fear' is likely to conjure feelings of anxiety and upset, not to mention making your legs turn to jelly and turning your body into quivering...

Joining the Colonoscopy Club

Mr Pickwick | Posted 10.11.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Mr Pickwick

It has been an odd few weeks since a visit to the Doctor lead me to be advised that if I did not go for further tests, my choice of outcome would be two conditions of which one was fatal and the other unknown to me but did not sound much fun as it had the word "ulcer" in it.

Dangers and Protection, on the Eve of 9/11

Laila Escartín-Sorjonen | Posted 08.11.2011 | UK
Laila Escartín-Sorjonen

Last night fear of terrorism was revived in my mind, as I watched the movie 'Face/ Off', directed by John Woo (1997). Incidentally, the movie is so a...

Kitchen Intimidation

Katie Burnetts | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK Comedy
Katie Burnetts

Growing up, it was tough having a dad who couldn't cook anything more complex than burnt cheese on toast. Which is why when I hooked up with my kitchen beast of a boyfriend, I couldn't help but boast to everyone.

The New Xenophobia

Marcus Moore | Posted 11.10.2011 | UK
Marcus Moore

NECK sticking out time, but I shall be 61 next week and don't give a damn if nobody reading this doesn't agree with one single word of it. And that's ...

Civil Entropy, Here to Stay

Boyan S. Benev | Posted 11.10.2011 | UK Politics
Boyan S. Benev

Decay is innate in all things. Entropy is inherent in society in the same way it is found in the natural world. Life can be viewed as a way to manage organic entropy with evolution being the beautiful mechanism which pushes forward change in nature. Equally real civil entropy currently lacks a effective way to manage or even benefit from this organic process.