Dr Hugh Willbourn
#10 A realistic fear
A new Director was being shown around a lunatic asylum. A patient standing in the corner of the ward, clapped his hands twice, regularly,...
top of page
Hugh Willbourn
Search
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jul 21, 2020
- 13 min
#9 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
PROLOGUE I have just spent nearly two weeks working on an accessible, useful piece of philosophy about the fundamental origins of our...
520 views1 comment
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jun 25, 2020
- 9 min
CC7 & 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...
348 views0 comments
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jun 19, 2020
- 4 min
CC6 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...
274 views0 comments
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jun 3, 2020
- 8 min
CC5 & 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...
654 views0 comments
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- May 14, 2020
- 14 min
CC4 & 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...
851 views2 comments
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- May 6, 2020
- 4 min
CC3 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...
392 views2 comments
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min
CC2 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...
7,341 views3 comments
Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Apr 27, 2020
- 2 min
CC1 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,...
454 views3 comments
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...
bottom of page