Michael Bacon

Rodney Barker (1942-2025) - LSE Government Blog Professor Paul Kelly pays tribute to an influential scholar, committed teacher and distinctive thinker who left a lasting impact on his department and students. It is with great sadness that we announ...

I am very sad to learn of the passing of Rodney Barker. A wonderfully engaging and supportive teacher, and one of the kindest people I've had the good fortune to know.

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Pragmatism and psychoanalysis in Bloomsbury. With @roberttalisse.bsky.social

Please forgive the typo 'followship'! As I'll indicate, that's not a Freudian slip.

Screenshot of newsletter page. Title: Analysing my analyst: the conduct of child psychoanalysis. Image: A paint-by-numbers canvas with pink and red flowers, open paint pots and two paint brushes.

Leverhulme Research Fellow @michaelbacon.bsky.social writes back back to his therapist in a critical study of the theory and practice of child psychoanalysis. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @royalholloway.bsky.social

Leverhulme Trust Newsletter - May 2025 Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more.

I am very grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for awarding me a Research Followship to research a project on psychoanalysis. @aeon.co @rhulpir.bsky.social @philosophyrhul.bsky.social @melaniekleintrust.bsky.social

For details, please p. 5 of the Trust’s newsletter:

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We relaunched Psyche magazine! psyche.co
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Thanks so much for your kind comments. I'm glad you found the essay interesting.

A short essay by me on pragmatism.
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1850.

Fatigue is like that cloudy feeling you get when you're up too early. Unfortunately, it can last all day.

Thanks so much, David. I'll be delighted if my very critical essay is also useful.

‘Power and Autonomy’ in the Consulting Room | Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy Members only event. SIP Ethics and Professional Standards Committee invites full SIP members to this workshop which explores issues of power and autonomy in clinical settings, in supervision, and in t...

Pleased that my essay on psychoanalysis is being discussed in a workshop today.

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Secret files reveal 1 in 3 hospitals in England missing 10% of nurses After a ten-month battle, Channel 4 News’ FactCheck team has obtained NHS data revealing 1 in 3 of England's hospitals are missing at least 10% of their planned-for nurses across their wards.

Secret files reveal 1 in 3 hospitals in England missing 10% of nurses

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Happy anniversary!

Speaking for my people, you should've been grateful for the underwear.

No. MS is bad enough.

A book front cover which is mainly made up of an image of a modernist tower block with glass windows in the background and a minaret in the foreground. In the centre is the title of the book "Islamic Doctrines and Political Liberalism: Muslim's Sincere Support". Underneath this is the author's name: Gozde Hussain. The publisher's name, Palgrave Macmillan, is in the bottom right corner. The title of the book series "The Modern Muslim World" is in the top right corner.

Join us online on Friday 5pm-6pm for the launch of our former PhD student, Gozde Hussain's book "Islamic Doctrines and Political Liberalism"
Dr Hussain will be joined by @jseglow.bsky.social and Prof Mohammad Fadel from the University of Toronto
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RIP David Lodge.

Congratulations David!

I was delighted to be invited to talk at Sapienza University of Rome this week on the politics of analytic philosophy.

Absolutely. The trick now is to resist the temptation to read 'just one'.

How a Cold War underground university smuggled in Western ideas | Aeon Essays During the Cold War, Oxford philosophers worked together to aid dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. I was one of them

I’m so glad Aeon found a way to use this picture for my article. It’s of Kathy Wilkes, taken by the secret police.
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Three panellists (me, Chris Morris from Full Fact and Richard Burgess from the BBC) are talking on a stage.

I was very pleased to be invited to talk about misinformation at Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media conference yesterday — alongside @morrischris.bsky.social of Full Fact and Richard Burgess from the BBC.

The complete trilogy. I guess I had something I needed to get off my chest....

A marvellously unpunctuated standfirst!

Boris Johnson has made the claim now in French that the UK* got vaccines faster thanks to Brexit.

This is incorrect.

*he says Angleterre but let’s assume he means UK

Thanks Steve!

Rorty even foresees Trump's relationship with Musk:

'...after my imagined strongman takes charge, he will quickly make his peace with the international super-rich...'