Patrick Fagan
Patrick Fagan is a behavioural scientist, author, lecturer and practitioner; previously Lead Psychologist at Cambridge Analytica, he is now the co-founder of Capuchin Behavioural Science. He tweets at @PFagan87
When did psychology get so cringe?
Mates don’t let mates inform manipulative politics with bad behavioural science
Passport to your soul
Opening the door to vaccine passports could lead to years of oppression, says Patrick Fagan
#BeKind and #StaySafe, or else!
How “Nudging” is damaging our society and why behavioural scientists must be held to account
The dark psychology of Extinction Rebellion
The deathly symbolism of Extinction Rebellion is designed to make us conform to extreme measures
The Lockdown Lobotomy
The effects of lockdown have caused far more damage than the virus ever could
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
