As each week passes, more and more people are realising that - since the advent of the Covid era - they have been abused and lied to by...

The state’s strategic deployment of fear, shame and peer pressure – or ‘affect, ‘ego’ and ‘norms’ in the language of behavioural science...

The last few weeks have witnessed an outpouring of vitriolic abuse and imposition of prejudicial policies directed against a group of...

Throughout last year I, and many other psychological specialists, urged the British Psychological Society(BPS) to address our widespread...

A middle-aged woman, walking along a pavement in the afternoon sunshine, sees a young family approaching and instantly becomes stricken...

After six months of evasion and obfuscation, the British Psychological Society (BPS) has made its position clear: it sees nothing...

For 16 months, the British people have been pounded with a multi-faceted Government communication campaign to imprint on our minds the...

It is increasingly recognised that the Government’s coronavirus communications campaign has relied heavily on covert psychological...

I would like to provide an update on progress (or lack of it) of our efforts to seek the view of the British Psychological Society (BPS)...

As described in a previous blogpost, there are major ethical concerns arising from the use of covert psychological strategies within the...

In an earlier blogpost, I described how psychologists working in the Government's 'Behavioural Insight Team' had recommended the use of...

In a previous blogpost, I described how psychologists working in the Government's 'Behavioural Insight Team' had recommended the use of...

Introduction The British public’s widespread compliance with the Government’s draconian diktats has arguably been the most remarkable...