Western civilisation faces a two-pronged assault – but are both attackers closer than they appear?

In this uncompromising lecture, Professor Frank Furedi exposes the internal collapse of civilisational confidence in the West and its convenient projection onto foreign foes. From the lecture halls of London to the tunnels of Gaza, decolonisation and Islamism reveal a shared contempt for the Western project – one that elites are increasingly unable (or unwilling) to defend.

📖 Topics Covered

• Decolonial dogma – why the West’s own academics now frame it as a criminal enterprise

• Islamism’s rise – and why its supporters find comfortable homes in Western institutions

• Russia, China and the colonial smear – weaponised history as geopolitical strategy

• The left–Islamist alliance – what unites Hamas and Harvard • Western conservatism’s failure – and the temptation to outsource blame

• The real crisis – not Islam or ideology, but a West that can’t explain itself