When I began this blog during the first 2020 lockdown, the key theme, which has continued ever since, was the deleterious effect on our mental wellbeing caused by leaders’ (such as employers and governments, which in psychoanalytic theory serve as proxies for our original source of authority – parents) failure to take care of usContinue reading “Sunday 13 April”
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Sunday 5 May
Although what we really is a general election, the local elections have proved somewhat cathartic and predictably the Conservatives did very badly, losing the Blackpool South by-election with a swing of 26% to Labour, over half the council seats they contested (could be as many as 500) and losing ten entire councils including Redditch, RushmoreContinue reading “Sunday 5 May”
Sunday 31 December 2023
As the year ends it’s increasingly clear that nothing is working under this Conservative administration – from the NHS to railways, from the creaking justice system to impoverished schools, from the non-functioning regulatory system to our polluted coasts and rivers, everything’s worse. (It’s been suggested that it will take 10 years to clear the backlogsContinue reading “Sunday 31 December 2023”
Sunday 14 May
Although it seems our politics and public life are always in a state of rapid churn, they can hardly have been more turbulent than during these last few weeks. We’ve had the local elections, during which some ‘local’ Conservatives disingenuously resorted to green branding, the Coronation, progress through Parliament of the Illegal Migration Bill andContinue reading “Sunday 14 May”
Sunday 25 September
What a momentous few weeks it’s been, from the ‘election’ of Liz Truss as PM by a small minority of Conservative party members, following weeks of long drawn out contest when the government was effectively absent, the death and funeral of the Queen after a 70 year reign, to the announcement of key government policiesContinue reading “Sunday 25 September”
Politics and mental health - the missing link? 