Hugh Willbourn

“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Table Talk' 5 October 1830 (1835) How come a poet, a...

Some covid-related restrictions are being lifted in some places and we are now well into revisionism and cover-ups. Our Governments can...

We should all be grateful to Harry Miller. In 2019 Harry was told by the Humberside Police that some tweets he forwarded would be...

It is overwhelmingly difficult to write reasonably about the proliferation of delusions around the globe. There is so much that is so...

In this podcast we talked about abstract thinking and practical problems. We talked about careerism in science, about how hard it is for...

Conor Kelly very kindly invited me onto his Saigon / worldwide podcast. Click here to listen to it. We talked about hypnosis and...

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,...