Psychology
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
When did psychology get so cringe?
Mates don’t let mates inform manipulative politics with bad behavioural science
I’m not an “empath”
Against performative sensitivity
In defence of medical heretics
Pronouns, schisms and the GLADD Charter
Letting the mask slip
An unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat used “nudging” to influence national policy
Let’s be Frankl
The importance of meaning
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
What the Conservatives can learn from Germany
The Tories should have a clean break with their past and rebuild
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Pissed Ofcom
An affront to the freedom of the press to do whatever it likes
