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Psychotherapy and Counselling are being rendered unable to work by their own registering bodies and employers. Entirely to do with acquiescing to pressure from the Trans Cult.

This blog is addressed to organisations responsible for registering psychotherapy or counselling and to those responsible for employing such professionals. You should know something that is fundamental, at least to psychoanalytic or psychodynamic approaches. We hold it as axiomatic that people are not naturally inclined to be stupid, cruel or suffering. Indeed, if those who Read More

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How can ‘Remainers’ talk to ‘Brexiters’?

It is very heartening that so many people marched on Saturday to demonstrate for a second referendum but it merely highlights the immediate problem. Andrew Rawnsely (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/21/only-when-mps-stare-into-the-abyss-will-they-agree-to-a-peoples-vote) points out that MPs are frightened to back a new referendum for various reasons but two are particularly significant, “Some are fearful that another referendum would turn Britain Read More

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Brexit, the plight of the Remainers

Isn’t it often the way that one ends up accumulating too much to say and so keeps putting off saying it, as if there will come a moment when everything will collapse into sensible paragraphs and write itself. I find myself continually confronted by some very clear facts but no sense that they can be Read More

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Comments blocked as suspected Bot

Dear Friends, Readers and other visitors, I apologise if you have tried to leave comments on any of my blogs and were rejected as a suspected ‘bot’. This is to do with a plugin that I didn’t know I had called MOJO. I have disabled it and tested the system, which appears now to be Read More

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Brexit, Democracy and the Role of Opposition

Democracy: ours is a representative democracy. That means that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf to run our sovereign nation. This allows me to make a direct analogy with a healthy organisation. The Chief Executive is appointed by the Board to make decisions about the best running of the organisation. If a Read More

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Universal Credit, some thoughts

No doubt you will have heard about the way in which the government’s appalling organisation of their universal credit arrangements will leave families without money this Christmas. I have signed a petition to require them to make exceptional payments to avoid the cruel impact of their incompetence and I’d encourage you to sign it too, Read More

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Welfare and Dignity

Posted by: Philip Stokoe at 14:34, January 9 2016. When Margaret Thatcher claimed that there was no such thing as a society, she began the ruthless attack continued by governments of both political parties on those who are needy in our country. Dave Bell in his excellent paper, “Primitive Mind of State”, describes the way Read More

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