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Everyone knows there’s something wrong with politics in Britain. And, at long last, the psychotherapy profession has started to take note. Two days after the general election, a conference The Establishment On The Couch will propose that a psychologically wounded elite runs our society and examine the implications for therapy. Analysing the politics of fear,…
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I am delighted to announce an important new conference: The Establishment on the Couch. Finally, The Establishment comes under the scrutiny of several leading psychotherapists and analysts! We have it on the couch two days after the election on 9 May 2015. What will we find? What will emerge? Will we still be able to…
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We have a new name for privileged abandonment: according to the Financial Times should be called ‘Distinctive Living’. Well, that’s the feature section for a new super glossy report on how to turn your Roubles into human gold and get shot of  the little buggers at the same time. Then when he grows up he’ll…
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Could it be that, like the water that drips and finally makes a groove, we are starting to see some effect of our campaigning? I may be deceiving myself but I thought I saw some seeds of self-doubt sprouting in amongst the ranks of the entitled wounded? At least that it is the impression I…
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It’s a joke. He didn’t board. Ha Ha. He went to private day-school. It’s just the ghastly Saturday Guardian’s ‘only joking’ pages that for me brings the whole paper down several notches by featuring the drivel of the likes of Ha Ha columnists Sophie Heawood. Sophie’s fantasy piece Who needs therapy? It’s high time our…
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        “Does being born into a rich family benefit you?” asks Andrew Sayer. “Clearly it does,” he continues. “You inherit not merely money but ‘social capital’ – lots of connections in high places that will benefit you relative to others who lack them.” He’s right – look at good ol’ DC! Of course,…
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Calling all prospective parents of boarders, politicians, and educators: please listen to George. Are we sitting comfortably?  

What a good question. But don’t expect a sensible answer from a man called Harry Mount, apparently the author of a book written [in his prep school ?] called Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, who apparently has been a paid leader writer for that oracle of truth, The Telegraph. My favourite boarding school researcher,…
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While a dedicated brotherhood of clever tweeters spread the denial of the boarding problem by robustly yelling “Where’s the SCIENTIFIC evidence that boarding harms children?”  bringing normal folk and clinicians to their knees with this penetrating logic, finally their favourite newspaper, The Times comes to the rescue: “Boarding schools save children from lonely family life…
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The panto season is upon us, and, as George Bush said after 9/11, the patriotic are urged to spend . But what does patriotic really mean? How should a Scot be feeling now, for example? Does the panto stage of our national life matter? Does anybody really care care? The theatre once used to be…
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