A quick fix for the soul

“The government is promoting cognitive behavioural therapy as a cost-effective, no-nonsense remedy for our psychological ills. It’s the triumph of a market-driven view of the human psyche…”
Darian Leader exploring ideas about CBT in Guardian G2, drawing on the work of one of my favourite social theorists, Nikolas Rose. A provocative article that will no doubt [...]

Suburban Verbiage

I live in a tripartite village on the side of a hill.  But the order of building is the reverse of what John Lennon’s Working Class hero imagined. At village bottom, avenues of suburban semis stand occupied by middle class graduate professionals, most not local to this area, if not this region of the UK. The middle part, [...]