Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2026

The Joy of Six 1590

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Jonathan Wilson  explains why we're stuck with a Premier League in the clutches of the global mega-rich: "Clubs represent their com...
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

The Joy of Six 1587

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Cathy Mongaghan says Essex County Council's Operation Vanguard shows what can happen when a party built on amplifying fear and division...
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Monday, September 28, 2026

The Joy of Six 1583

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The New World warns that Rupert Lowe is coming for your parents: "Lowe’s success exemplifies how Facebook has weaponised the anxieties...
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Saturday, September 19, 2026

Sammy Going South, Suez and the end of the British Empire

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Written for Terence Towles Canote's 13th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon . We British have a habit of turning military debacles into vi...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Work, play and creativity: Another column for the JCPCP

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This is another of the quarterly 'Sighcology' columns I contribute to the  Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychothe...
Friday, August 14, 2026

Five reasons to stop our sending future leaders to boarding school

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Piers Cross blends the psychological and the political to produce a convincing list. I wrote about Richard Beard's book Sad Little Men ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1560

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"Every week I read of people seeking planning permission for children’s homes whose backgrounds are in real estate, building, motor dea...
Friday, August 07, 2026

The uncanny on the western front in the first world war

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Embed from Getty Images Malcolm Gaskill reviews A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War by Owen Davies i...
Friday, July 31, 2026

The Joy of Six 1555

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Benjamin Goodair says Andy Burnham is right to want for‑profit firms out of social care: "The majority of social care in England is ru...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Richard Dadd and Victorian treatment of lunatics

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Jonathan Jones wrote about the painter Richard Dadd, who spent much of his life as a patient at Broadmoor Hospital, in the Guardian earlier...
Friday, July 10, 2026

Peter Knight on making sense of conspiracy theories

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Professor Peter Knight gave this lecture on Making Sense of Conspiracy Theories at Gresham College, London, on 14 November 2024. You can dow...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

The Joy of Six 1534

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Keir Starmer should set a timetable for his departure from Number 10 and give his successor the opportunity to prepare for becoming prime mi...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Sighcology: The Snake Pit, Out of True and Nellie Bly

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It's time to post another of the Sighcology columns I write for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. It us...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1530

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"The big red 'stop nudes' button is appealing because it’s a lot easier than investing in proper services to protect children a...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Searching for Normal by Sami Timimi

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This review appears in the new Liberator – issue 435. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. Searching for Nor...
Tuesday, May 05, 2026

Professor Strange: Victorians, modesty and table legs

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Long ago, in its February 2004 issue to be precise, I wrote an occasional humorous column for Clinical Psychology Forum under the name Prof...
Monday, May 04, 2026

The Joy of Six 1513

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"The taboo around the word 'membership' has been maintained not by principle but timidity. Farage built his project on lies. Th...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

A topical video: What constitutes "reasonable force"

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Another video from barrister-at-law Alan Robertshaw. One interesting point he makes is that the common courtroom assumption that a statement...
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For the JCPCP: Norma Varden, the Norman Yoke, Being Normal and Norman Bowler

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I've just sent another of my columns off to the The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, so it's time to p...
Friday, April 17, 2026

The Joy of Six 1505

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Bee Boileau, Lucas Conwell ans Peter Levell find that Help to Buy schemes don't help the people who most need it: "The affordabili...