Hugh Willbourn

PROLOGUE I have just spent nearly two weeks working on an accessible, useful piece of philosophy about the fundamental origins of our...

I was interviewed on the podcast, “Escape from Lockdown” the other day and told a story about putting someone into an hypnotic trance. I...

Last week Alex McCarron very kindly invited me to chat with him on his excellent podcast, “Escape from Lockdown.” Click here to...

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...

[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...

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...

In 1954 Leon Festinger, one of the most respected social psychologists of the 20th Century, joined a cult whose members believed that...

If the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service were to announce that the Service had run out of cars, or uniforms, or handcuffs,...