Feb 5, 2021Is psychiatry heading the same way as big pharma?Scepticism towards big pharma’s profiteering countered by alternative medicines is nothing new, is psychiatry heading for a similar counterculture backlash and towards a big psych? Accept it. Pharmaceutical companies were not founded for the good of humanity, but as a business with vested interests and profit motives, the moral benefits…Psychology4 min readPsychology4 min read
Nov 10, 2020What’s heavier:A tonne of dead minks or a tonne of dead people?The 2020 bingo card has been a frequently employed analogy for the unexpected events we’ve been confronted with this year. I certainly wasn’t expecting to be confronted with the possibility of the cutest holocaust ever. Denmark has, thankfully, not passed their bill to cull 17 million mink due legal challenges…Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
Mar 31, 2020Isolation, the absence of meaning and emasculation.In this time of mandated isolation, we’re all feeling the emotional and mental toll, even with a collective effort between mass media, governments and our social circles it’s a struggle to stave away the creeping disconnect from reality and normalcy. The implicit organisation of our lives and societies feels arbitrary…Sociology7 min readSociology7 min read
Mar 8, 2020What’s really breeding the next Superbug?Somewhere in Korea a crude burial trench is filled with the putrefying carcasses of hundreds of cattle, sheep and pigs. They decompose and the antimicrobials that failed to save them leach into the neighbouring fields of farms, deep into the groundwater that the locals rely on. …Epidemiology8 min readEpidemiology8 min read
Nov 3, 2019The Ligthouse and overcoming the selfLast week I had the privilege of attending an advanced UK screening of emerging auteur Robert Eggers’ The lighthouse as part of film fours’ fear four recent cinema events at the Hyde Park Picture House. Come the general UK release on January 31st I will be seeing it again, then…Movies4 min readMovies4 min read
Oct 13, 2019A defense of JokerDC’s gasping intellectual property claws out with another attempt to topple the dominant Marvel cinematic universe. The result is an outstanding origin story from a perspective unique from any conventional comic adaptation, mired in controversy. Aside from lengthy anticipation from diehard DC fans hoping for another chance of redemption it…Movies5 min readMovies5 min read
Aug 22, 2019Why Trump buying Greenland is not a ridiculous idea.The icy Tundra of Greenland may seem an odd choice of purchase from a realtors perspective, 80% of the semi-autonomous regions’ landmass is covered in ice sheet and the average temperature is 4.3 degrees Celsius. Trump recently suggested that the USA would be interest purchasing the region from Denmark creating…Climate Change5 min readClimate Change5 min read
May 10, 2019Why we should confront radicals, not silence themThere has been a sharp rise in radical groups in Europe over the past 5 years leading up to 2017 according to a Europol report on the state and trends of terrorism (TE-SAT report 2017). We often associate right wing, jihadist and paramilitary groups with the term extremism, but the…Radicalisation10 min readRadicalisation10 min read
