Dr Priest

Any Questions? - Mims Davies MP, Lindsey German, Georgia Gould MP, Isabel Hardman - BBC Sounds Alex Forsyth hosts political debate from All Saints Weston Church in Esher, Surrey.

'The Labour Government is like whe you wait hours and hours in the dark and the cold for a bus to come along and then it goes straight past you'.

I reckon Lindsey German nailed it on Any Questions.

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Any Questions? - Mims Davies MP, Lindsey German, Georgia Gould MP, Isabel Hardman - BBC Sounds Alex Forsyth hosts political debate from All Saints Weston Church in Esher, Surrey.

'The Labour Government is like whe you wait hours and hours in the dark and the cold for a bus to come along and then it goes straight past you'.

I reckon Lindsey German nailed it on Any Questions.

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“I think we arrive at truth through conversation. Not necessarily through the arguments that happen on the internet these days, but through conversation, through learning, through seeing through the other person’s eyes.”

Brandon Sanderson

Google is not your friend anymore.

It's an AI bully, forcing you to engage with it every time you ask a question.

They're selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man.

They're selling neurodiversity mags in Tesco.

The greatest decade in the history of mankind was over a long time ago.

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“I think we arrive at truth through conversation. Not necessarily through the arguments that happen on the internet these days, but through conversation, through learning, through seeing through the other person’s eyes.”

Brandon Sanderson

Google is not your friend anymore.

It's an AI bully, forcing you to engage with it every time you ask a question.

The only way to change the world for the better is to tell better stories.

Tim Grahl, CEO of StoryGrid

David Smail and his legacy More than ten years have passed since David’s death and we miss him dearly. What would he have made of these times? A world coming apart at the seams following more than 40 years of the neo-liberal…

‘A clinical account of what people can and cannot achieve is likely to be more productive if based on an assessment of the powers and resources available to them than one which focuses more or less exclusively on the contents of their heads’.
David Smail 2006

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The only way to change the world for the better is to tell better stories.

Tim Grahl, CEO of StoryGrid

They're selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man.

They're selling neurodiversity mags in Tesco.

The greatest decade in the history of mankind was over a long time ago.

midpsy.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/clin...

They've got magazines solely about neurodiversity on the check-outs at Tesco.

David Smail and his legacy More than ten years have passed since David’s death and we miss him dearly. What would he have made of these times? A world coming apart at the seams following more than 40 years of the neo-liberal…

‘A clinical account of what people can and cannot achieve is likely to be more productive if based on an assessment of the powers and resources available to them than one which focuses more or less exclusively on the contents of their heads’.
David Smail 2006

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Indeed. More carrots, less sticks.

“Give young people a clear path to good jobs, and you set them up for life.” – Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, @mayorofgm.bsky.social

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Books by members Click on a book for further information If psychology is seriously to address the despair and anguish that increasingly afflict us all, it needs to develop ‘outsight’. It needs to stop …

And if they don't explain the links between increasing mental health problems and an increasingly fucked up world, we do:
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Battle Book Club: No More Normal - Mental Health in an Age of Over-Diagnosis - Battle of Ideas Debate at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House and The Abbey Centre, Westminster.

I hope they explain how it’s not surprising that many people are resorting to acquiring mental health diagnoses when it might be one of the few routes available to securing a slightly better life for themselves.

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More or Less - Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD? - BBC Sounds Farm tax, ADHD benefits, Movember claim and Tim’s marathon.

Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?

So claimed Helen Whately, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Her lies were properly debunked on @timharford.ft.com's More Or Less programme yesterday:
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The Many Problems with Zen Psyonics One of the papers in our recent special issue of the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, about the legacy of David Smail, is the piece by Penny Priest. Her paper, The Man…

Power and interest (as opposed to willpower and insight) are what determine the events in our lives and how we respond to them.

This is why there are many problems with Zen Psyonics.

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Indeed. More carrots, less sticks.

“Give young people a clear path to good jobs, and you set them up for life.” – Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, @mayorofgm.bsky.social

greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/news/greater...

Books by members Click on a book for further information If psychology is seriously to address the despair and anguish that increasingly afflict us all, it needs to develop ‘outsight’. It needs to stop …

And if they don't explain the links between increasing mental health problems and an increasingly fucked up world, we do:
midpsy.uk/books-by-mem...

Battle Book Club: No More Normal - Mental Health in an Age of Over-Diagnosis - Battle of Ideas Debate at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House and The Abbey Centre, Westminster.

I hope they explain how it’s not surprising that many people are resorting to acquiring mental health diagnoses when it might be one of the few routes available to securing a slightly better life for themselves.

www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/no-m...

Team Of One by Penny Priest, out now. The Psychologist magazine did a special issue a while back on communicating science and the power of narratives over scientific texts. It’s an idea I have become increasingly interested in, especia…

My book, Team Of One, is about cultivating community and resistance.
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More or Less - Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD? - BBC Sounds Farm tax, ADHD benefits, Movember claim and Tim’s marathon.

Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?

So claimed Helen Whately, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Her lies were properly debunked on @timharford.ft.com's More Or Less programme yesterday:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Many Problems with Zen Psyonics One of the papers in our recent special issue of the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, about the legacy of David Smail, is the piece by Penny Priest. Her paper, The Man…

Power and interest (as opposed to willpower and insight) are what determine the events in our lives and how we respond to them.

This is why there are many problems with Zen Psyonics.

midpsy.uk/2025/10/03/t...

I like Barney Ronay's writing. He rarely fucks it up.

I like Barney Ronay's writing. He rarely fucks it up.

I wish Gordon Brown had been this clear about the evils of neoliberalism when he was in power.

“Faragism” is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity.

Good to hear Gordon Brown calling out neoliberalism.

This is what it's like to love your country.

Farage could learn a thing or two.

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