Dr Hugh Willbourn
#31 The Foolish Policeman
We should all be grateful to Harry Miller. In 2019 Harry was told by the Humberside Police that some tweets he forwarded would be...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 5, 20218 min read
#27 Humanity is greatly confused
It is overwhelmingly difficult to write reasonably about the proliferation of delusions around the globe. There is so much that is so...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Oct 28, 20211 min read
#26 Those who don't suffer don't learn - Power House Podcast #3
In this podcast we talked about abstract thinking and practical problems. We talked about careerism in science, about how hard it is for...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Aug 29, 20211 min read
#24 Podcast with Conor Kelly
Conor Kelly very kindly invited me onto his Saigon / worldwide podcast. Click here to listen to it. We talked about hypnosis and...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Aug 13, 202113 min read
#23 Cock-up, Conspiracy or Murmuration?
Photo by Paul Berry on Unsplash Three of the most baffling mysteries of the last year and a half are: Why have so many people consented...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Aug 1, 20211 min read
#22 Guest on the Delingpod
I was delighted to be a guest on James Delingpole's podcast. James interviews a fascinating range of people on his podcast, and I...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Jul 16, 20216 min read
#21 The Most Dangerous Plague
Many years ago a junior social worker came to see me. She worked in a ‘secure’ house with five others looking after one delinquent,...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Apr 1, 20212 min read
#20 True Hope Podcast
Early last month, Simon Brazier interviewed me on his podcast at True Hope Canada. I have posted the link below. Our talk included...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Feb 25, 20216 min read
#19 The Ferguson Correspondence
The recent correspondence (21 feb ff.) between Professor Ferguson and a number of sceptics published on the Lockdown Sceptics website ...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Jan 20, 20218 min read
#18 Living amongst the Possessed
Approaching February 2021 where should we look for a comparison? To Rome in the year 180? To the American War in Vietnam? To...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Dec 24, 20205 min read
#17 Remedies for 2021
The Problem The misadventure of 2020 has been so huge it is difficult to grasp and impossible to summarise. When we look back on the...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 16, 20205 min read
#16 Let’s make the next lockdown useful
The UK Government has stated that on the 2nd of December it will lift lockdown restrictions. Maybe it will. However experience suggests...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 12, 20203 min read
#15 Botox for Boris
A friend messaged me a couple of days ago: "It's good news about the vaccine, isn't it!" Others are better qualified than me to explore...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Nov 2, 20204 min read
#14 The World quits Therapy
World: I quit. Pause. Me: Fair enough. Long pause. M: So … I guess that you have something to tell me. W: Why? M: Well… you didn’t have...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Oct 24, 20208 min read
#13 The World Therapy Session 2
Me: Hello. Pause. Me: You look distressed. World: I feel terrible. Pause. Me: Hmmm. What sort of terrible? World: Same, same but worse....
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Oct 12, 20206 min read
#12 What if the World needs Therapy?
As a psychotherapist I ask myself, “What would I do if the world came to see me now?” Firstly, I think I'd say, “Well done. It takes...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Sep 13, 20205 min read
#11 The Omnibus Party
The Lockdown Sceptics website recently asked its readers to propose a name for a new political party which would act in the interests of...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Aug 3, 20204 min read
#10 A realistic fear
A new Director was being shown around a lunatic asylum. A patient standing in the corner of the ward, clapped his hands twice, regularly,...
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Jul 21, 202013 min read
#9 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
PROLOGUE I have just spent nearly two weeks working on an accessible, useful piece of philosophy about the fundamental origins of our...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
Jun 25, 20209 min read
CC7 & LSS4 What role is hypnosis playing in these strange times?
I was interviewed on the podcast, “Escape from Lockdown” the other day and told a story about putting someone into an hypnotic trance. I...
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#56 Podcast with Darren Joe
A little while ago Darren Joe was kind enough to interview me for his podcast – and now here it is, posted on his site , and in several...
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#55 The Mechanics of Hypnosis
In the early days of the Covid Panic-demic Mattias Desmet realised he was witnessing an enormous event of mass hypnosis which he...
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#54 Madness and the Evaporation of Authority
What is going on? Or more succinctly, wtf?!? We are surrounded by insanity. The Western world is riddled with irrational beliefs,...
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