Dr Hugh Willbourn5 days ago5 min#11 The Omnibus PartyThe Lockdown Sceptics website recently asked its readers to propose a name for a new political party which would act in the interests of ...
Dr Hugh WillbournAug 34 min#10 A realistic fearA new Director was being shown around a lunatic asylum. A patient standing in the corner of the ward, clapped his hands twice, regularly,...
Dr Hugh WillbournJul 2113 min#9 A little knowledge is a dangerous thingPROLOGUE I have just spent nearly two weeks working on an accessible, useful piece of philosophy about the fundamental origins of our cur...
Dr Hugh WillbournJun 259 minCC7 & LSS4 What role is hypnosis playing in these strange times?I was interviewed on the podcast, “Escape from Lockdown” the other day and told a story about putting someone into an hypnotic trance. I...
Dr Hugh WillbournJun 194 minCC6 Podcast ramble and Catch-up Last week Alex McCarron very kindly invited me to chat with him on his excellent podcast, “Escape from Lockdown.” Click here to liste...
Dr Hugh WillbournJun 48 minCC5 & LSS3 Why did we make these mistakes? 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 L...
Dr Hugh WillbournMay 1414 minCC4 & LSS2 We can do better than 'Follow the Science'[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 undo...
Dr Hugh WillbournMay 64 minCC3 Who will replace Neil Ferguson?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...
Dr Hugh WillbournMay 54 minCC2 Covid, Brexit and Flying Saucers…In 1954 Leon Festinger, one of the most respected social psychologists of the 20th Century, joined a cult whose members believed that ear...
Dr Hugh WillbournApr 272 minCC1 When you've finished clapping ...If the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service were to announce that the Service had run out of cars, or uniforms, or handcuffs, ...
