Dr Hugh Willbourn
#37 In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is weeping...
I am sitting on the terrace of a café by the river. Around me the well-to-do are chatting over their coffee and croissants. A young man...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Mar 21, 2022
- 6 min
#36 A Decent Democracy
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Table Talk' 5 October 1830 (1835) How come a poet, a...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Mar 1, 2022
- 9 min
#34 Beware the Old Normal
Some covid-related restrictions are being lifted in some places and we are now well into revisionism and cover-ups. Our Governments can...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
#31 The Foolish Policeman
We should all be grateful to Harry Miller. In 2019 Harry was told by the Humberside Police that some tweets he forwarded would be...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Nov 5, 2021
- 8 min
#27 Humanity is greatly confused
It is overwhelmingly difficult to write reasonably about the proliferation of delusions around the globe. There is so much that is so...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
#26 Those who don't suffer don't learn - Power House Podcast #3
In this podcast we talked about abstract thinking and practical problems. We talked about careerism in science, about how hard it is for...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Aug 29, 2021
- 1 min
#24 Podcast with Conor Kelly
Conor Kelly very kindly invited me onto his Saigon / worldwide podcast. Click here to listen to it. We talked about hypnosis and...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Aug 13, 2021
- 13 min
#23 Cock-up, Conspiracy or Murmuration?
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...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Aug 1, 2021
- 1 min
#22 Guest on the Delingpod
I was delighted to be a guest on James Delingpole's podcast. James interviews a fascinating range of people on his podcast, and I...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jul 16, 2021
- 6 min
#21 The Most Dangerous Plague
Many years ago a junior social worker came to see me. She worked in a ‘secure’ house with five others looking after one delinquent,...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
#20 True Hope Podcast
Early last month, Simon Brazier interviewed me on his podcast at True Hope Canada. I have posted the link below. Our talk included...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Feb 25, 2021
- 6 min
#19 The Ferguson Correspondence
The recent correspondence (21 feb ff.) between Professor Ferguson and a number of sceptics published on the Lockdown Sceptics website ...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jan 20, 2021
- 8 min
#18 Living amongst the Possessed
Approaching February 2021 where should we look for a comparison? To Rome in the year 180? To the American War in Vietnam? To...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Dec 24, 2020
- 5 min
#17 Remedies for 2021
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...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Nov 16, 2020
- 5 min
#16 Let’s make the next lockdown useful
The UK Government has stated that on the 2nd of December it will lift lockdown restrictions. Maybe it will. However experience suggests...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Nov 12, 2020
- 3 min
#15 Botox for Boris
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...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
#14 The World quits Therapy
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...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Oct 24, 2020
- 8 min
#13 The World Therapy Session 2
Me: Hello. Pause. Me: You look distressed. World: I feel terrible. Pause. Me: Hmmm. What sort of terrible? World: Same, same but worse....
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Oct 12, 2020
- 6 min
#12 What if the World needs Therapy?
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...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Sep 13, 2020
- 5 min
#11 The Omnibus Party
The Lockdown Sceptics website recently asked its readers to propose a name for a new political party which would act in the interests of...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
#37 In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is weeping...
I am sitting on the terrace of a café by the river. Around me the well-to-do are chatting over their coffee and croissants. A young man...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
#36 A Decent Democracy
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Table Talk' 5 October 1830 (1835) How come a poet, a...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
#35 Books I haven't written yet: A new Series of Podcasts
I have started a new series of Podcasts over at the Power House called, “Books I haven’t written yet.” I have too many notes for too...
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