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The Ashes series has started (with 19 wickets falling on first day - see summary ). Playing the Ashes series in Australia has a particular s...

Following my voluntary erasure from the GMC register (see previous post ) I have cancelled my membership of the Royal College of Psychiatris...

The Rothesay 2025 county championship is complete. Ok, so Surrey are only runners up, but what do I do for the other half of the year?

I have voluntarily erased myself from the GMC register (see my GMC entry ). As I said in a previous post , when I first qualified I thought ...

Despite my predominantly working class origins, I gained access to higher education at Trinity College Cambridge (see eg. previous post ). M...

The Critical Psychiatry Network (CPN), of which I am a founding member, was formed in 1999 (see eg.  my article ). The group was brought tog...

My parents met at Eld Lane Baptist church, Colchester, as did my grandparents on my father’s side. I was baptised into the Baptist Church at...

The Gull Wing bridge in Lowestoft opened last September (see Suffolk County Council post ). I saw it today on my visit to Lowestoft, where I...

I ended a previous post with the following sentence, “How one separates those that are speaking from the position of parrhesia or manipula...

Colchester Edware Toronto Watford/Rickmansworth Cambridge London Lancaster Preston Sheffield Norwich Where next? And second home in Wenhasto...

Can you spot the crazed creepy narcissistic billionaire determined to destroy democracy? (as asked by Private Eye )

I mentioned Foucault’s 1983 lectures devoted to the study of the Greek notion of parrhesia in a recent post on my Thinking Differently Abo...

Not all Muslims agree with the Supreme Leader of Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (see Wikipedia entry about the Supreme Leader), who led last ...

I mentioned in a recent post on my Relational Psychiatry blog that Awais Aftab's edited book Conversations in Critical Psychiatry has j...

I used to be able to get through this gate when I was an undergraduate. Photo only Trinity College fellows should take. I was told off by th...

Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where a person causes someone to question their sanity, memories, or perception of reality. Gas...

I mentioned the Trust I used to work for in a previous post . It has been found inadequate four times by the CQC, although currently rated a...

The exhibition on ‘Spitting Image’ is worth seeing at the Cambridge University Library. It makes links with the origin of satire in Georgia...

That’s now two blog post headings with the word ‘bullshit’ in them (see other one )! I’m meaning the technical definition of bullshit which ...

I’ve mentioned David Southall three times previously (see first ,  second  and third  posts). He was a professor of paediatrics and a child ...

As Dave Pilgrim writes in  British psychology in crisis :- ‘Management speak’ with confident terminology and phrases abound, and many employ...

Still revelling in having spent more than 7 years of my life (3 years BA, 2 years and a term clinical studies and two years part-time PhD) a...