For many years I worked for a behavioural training company. One model we taught was Push/Pull. It focuses on the difference between pushing your ideas, wishes, etc., at people instead of persuading them to adopt your thinking. It is a simple but powerful model, and I’ll not pretend the implementation of it is easy. I […]
Our Parliamentary democracy no longer works. It seems as though the major systems of governance, our Executive and Parliament have gone rogue, forgetting who is truly sovereign and who they actually work for. A significant number of people have disengaged from politics at any level, and far too many of our elected representatives operate from
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During Mao’s Chinese Cultural Revolution, “struggle sessions” were pivotal in enforcing compliance. These involved publicly humiliating individuals who deviated from approved scripts or expressed impermissible opinions. Anyone accused of holding the wrong views had their life destroyed through public branding. In China, they were paraded through the streets carrying a board with their name written
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For weekends on end, since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 last year, massacring 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages to Gaza, London streets have seen mass demonstrations protesting against Israel’s response. Many people openly support Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation that has called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Often violent and extremely
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I have a very good friend whose son applied to join the Royal Navy in 2019 as aircrew when the navy said they were short of pilots. As progress was slow, it was suggested by his University Air Squadron CO in June 2023 that he should also apply to the RAF. By January 2024 he
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I’ve always been someone who forcefully pursued free speech. So disagreements whilst teaching – over trans-gender indoctrination – didn’t scare me, however annoying and exhausting they were. I’m not claiming to be brave; I didn’t feel unnerved by the disputes and cold-shouldering. Depressed, occasionally – which is another reason the Free Speech Union is so
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Truth is now a crime. Little illustrates this more than a verdict passed in Verden Regional Court, Northern Germany, earlier this week. Marie Therese Kaiser, a budding young politician, was found guilty of using government statistics to point to a problem that officialdom would rather not talk about. As the Taliban took down the Pride flag from
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(Photograph: Allan warren, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Social media is a transport device. Scroll through your feed and you will be whisked away to join your friends on holiday or at dinner (why didn’t they invite me, you may wonder). It might take you to some far-flung land where news is being
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There is an amusing message flitting around Facebook. I have copied and pasted it below: For those of you who cannot cope with fuzzy images, it reads: ‘For those of my generation who do not, and cannot, comprehend why Facebook exists: I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.
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Eugenics is the new black. A bill to authorise medically assisted suicide is being introduced in the Scottish Parliament. The establishment appears fully behind it. In the Daily Telegraph, Lord Jonathan Sumption, a former member of our supreme court, backs the idea “on balance” as being “morally justified”. In the Times, Matthew Parris, that weathervane
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