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Wounded Leaders - Out Now
In an age when America elected its first black president and the Middle East stirred with popular uprising, Britons were again content to elect the products of their elitist Public Schools. But, their grooming for power aside, does such an education produce excellence – or expertise in self-deception and duplicity? The early 21st Century gives us some clues. Tony Blair maintained his façade of inner conviction but...
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About the Author: Nick Duffell
Nick Duffell specialises in psychohistory, mens issues and the psychology of entitlement. In 1990 he began offering specialist group therapy to Boarding School Survivors (as he provocatively named adult ex-boarders). Ten years later he published his findings in The Making of Them: the British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System, which has received wide critical acclaim, including an endorsement by the BMJ...
May 31
‘Putting politics on the couch’: a new podcast series on the psychology of leadership, the Labour party, Covid etc.. with Nick Duffell and Adam Brichto. We’re going deep but also having some laughs – do join us and pass it on. In our first episode, Nick, a psychotherapist of 32 years and self-appointed psychohistorian, talks…
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Aug 23
Nick has his say on Boris, ‘King of Wounded Leaders’: On NZ Radio Sunday Morning Show: read and listen (scroll down for play button) – it did rather upset some conservative Kiwis if you go all the way to the comments. But that is how the Strategic Survival Personality defends itself – to the death,…
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May 24
Mrs May will doubtless be remembered for the emotional finale to her resignation speech – by the media as the dogged but beleaguered PM who cracked in the end. And by the Wounded Leader snakes who surround her as the woman who blubbed in the end. I am certain that – in her shoes –…
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Mar 25
Would you like to be left on a small island with these men?
the fight against the Age of Stupid
Like so many, many others, I spent Saturday marching through London expressing the desire to not be lead into disaster by a monstrous cohort of Wounded Leaders who do not wish the people of this country well. This is where I snapped the banner pictured below. The thing is – we know it, and we…
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Jul 7
This weekend, football, Brexit, leadership and niceness are intimately connected, it seems. Months of muddled leadership, not to mention David Cameron’s catastrophic original choice, lie behind the on-going problem of trying to integrate the loony Victorian public-school wing of the Conservative Party into how the hell we are going to managed this step backward without…
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May 19
To celebrate or mourn, that’s the question, the only thing (according to Einstein) that was infinite apart from the universe – the stupidity of mankind. With teenagers murdered at the fence in Gaza and the climate going to hell, we are supposed to be ostriches celebrating the royal celebrity wedding. But there IS another coming…
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