- Chris Rose’s intemperate critique of the Common Cause report
- Excellent rebuttal by Martin Kirk of this critique
- The Cabinet Office’s “Applying Behavioural Insight to Health” discussion paper is actually quite good
- Adam Curtis Experiments in the laboratory of consumerism 1959-67
- BBC Trial of environmental activists collapses after undercover officer changes sides
- Guardian: ‘Mark Kennedy: A journey from undercover cop to ‘bona fide’ activist’
- Essential reading: ‘We have to learn the limits of psychology from politics to popular culture, and new ways we can think and act rather than just as individuals and consumers all the time. ‘
- Parapsychology: the control group for science
- ‘localism is in many ways an indulgent form of self-interest. A self-sufficient community is … independent of the cares or needs of other communities and is unwilling to engage in the wider human enterprise.’
- ‘Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy’
- John Gray on human rights ‘the idea of rights has seized hold of the utopian imagination’
- ‘Why have a private firm run police to spy on a few greens? The Ratcliffe Six case is a warning story of securocrats out of control’
- Learning science : Actively recalling information from memory beats elaborate study methods
- “I’m giving £1m to charity on an ordinary salary”
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