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#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
Jan 6, 20233 min read
#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
Mar 21, 20226 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Mar 4, 20221 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Mar 1, 20229 min read
#33 Podcast: Better Storytelling
I have another podcast over at the Power House. In this episode we tell a few stories, we talk about stories and we tell a story about...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Jan 6, 20221 min read
#32 Podcast: Christmas, Stories and Addiction
We had a little chat at the Power House just before Christmas. We talked about addictions and the everyday challenges of life, and how...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Dec 25, 20211 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Dec 23, 20213 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 5, 20218 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Oct 28, 20211 min read
#25 Power House Podcast #1
I have a new podcast out. I am starting a series of talks with my business partner at the Power House, Lea Lechtenberg. Our podcast...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Oct 20, 20212 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Aug 29, 20211 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Aug 13, 202113 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Aug 1, 20211 min read
#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,...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Jul 16, 20216 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Apr 1, 20212 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Jan 20, 20218 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Dec 24, 20205 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 16, 20205 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 12, 20203 min read
#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...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 2, 20204 min read
#59 The Dissolution of Society
The legacy media in the UK have finally caught up with the population and noticed that things are not going well. It is however too little, too late. To be fair, they are not capable of coordinating sufficient attention to prevent social collapse. The news cycle, the hopeless, mindless craving for novelty that captures eyeballs and sells your attention to advertisers, is relentless. Do you remember Jonathan Munro? He is the smug man who insisted that edits made by Panor
Dr Hugh Willbourn
#58 What next ?
Good news from the UK: the legacy parties have both taken a beating . Congratulations to Sarah Pochin and Nigel Farage. Bad news from the...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
# 57 Unsustainability
Welcome to the New World Disorder. It is a great joy to see the managed decline of democracy being interrupted. The new administration...
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