Hugh Willbourn

Photo by Paul Berry on Unsplash Three of the most baffling mysteries of the last year and a half are: Why have so many people consented...

I was delighted to be a guest on James Delingpole's podcast. James interviews a fascinating range of people on his podcast, and I...

Many years ago a junior social worker came to see me. She worked in a ‘secure’ house with five others looking after one delinquent,...

Early last month, Simon Brazier interviewed me on his podcast at True Hope Canada. I have posted the link below. Our talk included...

The recent correspondence (21 feb ff.) between Professor Ferguson and a number of sceptics published on the Lockdown Sceptics website ...

Approaching February 2021 where should we look for a comparison? To Rome in the year 180? To the American War in Vietnam? To...

The Problem The misadventure of 2020 has been so huge it is difficult to grasp and impossible to summarise. When we look back on the...

The UK Government has stated that on the 2nd of December it will lift lockdown restrictions. Maybe it will. However experience suggests...

A friend messaged me a couple of days ago: "It's good news about the vaccine, isn't it!" Others are better qualified than me to explore...

World: I quit. Pause. Me: Fair enough. Long pause. M: So … I guess that you have something to tell me. W: Why? M: Well… you didn’t have...

Me: Hello. Pause. Me: You look distressed. World: I feel terrible. Pause. Me: Hmmm. What sort of terrible? World: Same, same but worse....

As a psychotherapist I ask myself, “What would I do if the world came to see me now?” Firstly, I think I'd say, “Well done. It takes...

The Lockdown Sceptics website recently asked its readers to propose a name for a new political party which would act in the interests of...

A new Director was being shown around a lunatic asylum. A patient standing in the corner of the ward, clapped his hands twice, regularly,...

PROLOGUE I have just spent nearly two weeks working on an accessible, useful piece of philosophy about the fundamental origins of our...

I was interviewed on the podcast, “Escape from Lockdown” the other day and told a story about putting someone into an hypnotic trance. I...

Last week Alex McCarron very kindly invited me to chat with him on his excellent podcast, “Escape from Lockdown.” Click here to...

As the UK moves into semi-un-lockdown and ongoing economic collapse it’s a good moment to ask, “Why did that happen?” In CC2 I explored...

[I was hoping to keep the two strands of this blog separate but the global response to Sars-CoV-2 is a perfect example of how we are...

The resignation of Neil Ferguson opens a vacancy on the SAGE committee and a chance to modify our response to Sars-CoV-2. Our death toll...