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by Shrink · Published 6 October 2026 · Last modified 10 October 2026
It isn’t long ago that a man wearing a cardboard sign that read “The end of the world is nigh” would be regarded as a crackpot. We might have chuckled at the prophet of doom. These days his sign is a headline and the computer boffins who are creating a...
And if you tolerate this then your children will be next The Manic Street Preacher’s lyric unbidden, strikes its melancholy tone in my mind. The song is a rock music lament about fascism. They penned it 30 odd years ago. It alludes to events another 60 odd years before that....
I have been reflecting that I need to be careful how much I discourage children. By children I mean the generation of late teenagers and early adults who are coming of age this very confusing time. I transitioned from adolescence into early adulthood in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
Psychologists are usually sensibly clothed. Some are more stylish than others but their haberdashery is reliably demure with only occasional splashes of sartorial libido spilling over into brightly coloured socks, an eccentric waistcoat or outlandish hat. On this site, the doors of the perceptual wardrobe are thrown wide open and the shrunken bits are allowed to hang out.