About: Nick Duffell

‘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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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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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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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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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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