News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
Dr Kirsty Miller was shocked to discover clinical psychologists sharing memes mocking their patients on social media. The problem, she argues, is the profession has been taken over by Critical Social Justice ideology.
Ever wondered why politicians seem so out of touch? Ben Pile explores how the flawed advice of behavioural scientists has been followed religiously by hyper-liberal leaders, fuelling populist movements worldwide.
Why is Western civilisation increasingly governed by people taken in by the latest shallow intellectual fads? Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist has some convincing answers, says Dr. David McGrogan.
Carl Jung would not be surprised by how the West is destroying itself via the unconscious transformation of what is good into the opposite – a process he termed enantiodromia, says Dr Hugh Willbourn.
A study has found that individuals are more likely to give atypical answers to moral dilemmas when others have already given such answers. This 'online moral conformity' is surely relevant to the age of lockdown.
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments echo in today's transgender sports debates, school biases, Covid-19 reactions and media sheeple. Will a few brave dissenters be enough to combat this societal decay?
Manipulators draw power from the illusion of power: they can control us paradoxically just because we think they can. Once we realise their power is a deception, it evaporates, write Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan.
Britain has been drilled to comply with lockdown under a future pandemic through wearing face masks and working from home, the Chief Executive of the Government's 'nudge unit' has said.
Why is the world descending into catastrophist delusions, and what can be done about it? Bestselling psychotherapist Hugh Willbourn has some answers.
The Government's use of psychological techniques to increase fear to boost compliance with pandemic measures destroyed the public's ability to consent to vaccines, the Chairman of the UK Council for Psychotherapy has said.
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