Corona Corner 2/2

#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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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,...

#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...

#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...

#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...