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The last two years have seen an unprecedented increase in the interest in the psychological problems of boarding. My own psychohistory Wounded Leaders generated several commissioned articles, including two in The Guardian. In May 2015, Confer hosted their first conference on these issues, ‘The Establishment on the Couch’, featuring both Joy and Nick. An actor-read…
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Is there a connection between the entitlement that seems built in to the British Establishment and the prevalence and even normalisation of child abuse? This is a question that the New Zealand Judge Lowell Goddard who chairs the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse must not avoid. The Inquiry’s brief is to ‘investigate whether public…
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At the same time as Britain’s Tory party is shamed by the tragic suicide of a young activist, their leader doesn’t fail to pull out all the bullying stops in his agenda to go to war again. It seems impossible to stop this endemic bullying. Only we, the voting public, have the power to not…
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On the day of the Syrian bombing vote, what  would you want to ask our chief Wounded Leader at Prime Minsister’s Questions? Here’s mine. “Has the Prime Minister considered the informed views of the ex-ISIS hostage, the French journalist Nicolas Henin (you can see his enlightened and realistic report and ideas here), that the most…
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How should we respond to the ghastly events in Paris? How do we want our leaders to respond? It is very difficult, but the crucial thing is that we should respond before reacting, which is often very difficult for our Wounded Leaders. Yet even the opinionated ex-boarder journalist Peter Hitchens, who has tried all political…
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What happens to truth when its no longer news? It’s been a difficult couple of weeks for the Goddess Veritas. Like them or loathe them, you have got to give the Tories some credit for their nerve. They pulled off one of the greatest con-tricks in political history, got away with it, despite our so-called…
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We may now have to start a new campaign – against “balance”. It was clear to me from correspondence with those in The Guardian who elicited last Friday’s mini article from me, It will take more than smartphones to stop boarding school children being damaged, that an objective was to be pursued. But when the…
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Last night I watched the news about is apparently being done to children in Syria in helpless grief and rage. How can we stop this, if it is true? A kid who refused to join and had a hand and foot chopped off really got to me. It has been with me all night. We…
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At a time when politics seems for a moment to be turning away from the politics of Wounded Leaders we have a moment of hope with a political leader who seems to be congruent and authentic – i.e. not a Wounded Leader. Will he have enough political ideas to embrace the new contexts of the…
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Sometimes you have to wonder why we can’t see a problem that’s right in front of our nose. But if we can’t see it, the US and Germany can. Apparently, an adviser reporting privately to Hilary Clinton warned that Britain’s Coalition of the Wounded were big trouble. A batch of emails, released this week by…
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