About: Nick Duffell
Recent Posts by Nick Duffell
‘Putting politics on the couch’ – our new podcast series
‘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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Written on May 31, 2020 at 7:18 pm
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On Boris, ‘King of Wounded Leaders’ – look upon his countenance and whither, Ye Liberals!
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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Written on August 23, 2019 at 10:59 am
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Theresa brought down by impossible job or by Wounded Leaders?
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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Written on May 24, 2019 at 6:00 pm
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Would you like to be left on a small island with these men?
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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Written on March 25, 2019 at 1:39 pm
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Football and Brexit – Leadership and Niceness
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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Written on July 7, 2018 at 8:35 am
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Recent Comments by Nick Duffell
- 21/03/2020 on The truth about boarding
- 19/04/2019 on The truth about boarding
- 15/04/2019 on Would you like to be left on a small island with these men?
- 12/07/2018 on The truth about boarding
- 24/04/2018 on Healing the trauma of yesteryear with the technology of tomorrow?