I was delighted to talk to journalist Julie Henry about what it was like to spend three years in psychoanalysis as a child. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

I am very sad to learn of the passing of Rodney Barker. A wonderfully engaging and supportive teacher, and one of the kindest people I've had the good fortune to know. blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...

Pragmatism and psychoanalysis in Bloomsbury. With @roberttalisse.bsky.social

Leverhulme Research Fellow @michaelbacon.bsky.social writes back back to his therapist in a critical study of the theory and practice of child psychoanalysis. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @royalholloway.bsky.social

I am very grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for awarding me a Research Followship to research a project on psychoanalysis. @aeon.co @rhulpir.bsky.social @philosophyrhul.bsky.social @melaniekleintrust.bsky.social For details, please p. 5 of the Trust’s newsletter: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

@andrewfutter.bsky.social @michaelbacon.bsky.social @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social @jerrybrotton.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social @drniccimacleod.bsky.social @whitelegg.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @lizzieseal.bsky.social @esmoriemiller.bsky.social

We relaunched Psyche magazine! psyche.co @psyche.co

A short essay by me on pragmatism. psyche.co/ideas/to-res... @psyche.co @cherylmisak.bsky.social @roberttalisse.bsky.social

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Pleased that my essay on psychoanalysis is being discussed in a workshop today. www.sipsychotherapy.org/event/power-...

Secret files reveal 1 in 3 hospitals in England missing 10% of nurses www.channel4.com/news/secret-...

Join us online on Friday 5pm-6pm for the launch of our former PhD student, Gozde Hussain's book "Islamic Doctrines and Political Liberalism" Dr Hussain will be joined by @jseglow.bsky.social and Prof Mohammad Fadel from the University of Toronto www.eventbrite.com/e/islamic-do...

RIP David Lodge.

I was delighted to be invited to talk at Sapienza University of Rome this week on the politics of analytic philosophy.

I’m so glad Aeon found a way to use this picture for my article. It’s of Kathy Wilkes, taken by the secret police. aeon.co/essays/how-a...

I was very pleased to be invited to talk about misinformation at Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media conference yesterday — alongside @morrischris.bsky.social of Full Fact and Richard Burgess from the BBC.

The complete trilogy. I guess I had something I needed to get off my chest....

Boris Johnson has made the claim now in French that the UK* got vaccines faster thanks to Brexit. This is incorrect. *he says Angleterre but let’s assume he means UK

The philosopher Richard Rorty predicted the rise of Trump in 1997. '... something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for...'

A thought for the next 4 years.