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What do the following now have in common?Joe BidenThe PopeThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex...... and now Bill Gates?You will be amazed by the answer!(clue - it's something to do

One thing is sure. Even if he blocks an independence referendum in the short term, Johnson's actions make independence more likely in the long term. It's a matter of reactance:

Out today in the Lancet.A comparison of countries with eliminationist vs. containment strategies shows that those with a systematic strategy to suppress the virus rather than living with significant levels

Will the pandemic inevitably lead to scapegoating?Does something deep in our psychology lead us to blame others for our misery.Just as the black death led to violent anti-semitism are we

For many years we studied the impact of mass gatherings on health at the largest of the melas at Allahabad (Prayag) where up to 100 million people can gather at

The popular account of Milgram's work is that 'people obey orders no matter how extreme'. That is based on just one study - the so-called 'revised baseline condition' in which

The COVID 'tier system' is a good idea so badly mishandled that it is now worse than useless.The idea was to have different levels of restrictions with objective criteria for

Many of you say this is the most brilliant thing you have read on the pandemic.Quite right. Everyone should read it and pass it on.Because it points to the key

Remarkable data from Police Scotland confirms THE PROBLEM IS NOT STUDENTS AND HOUSE PARTIES!They were called out to 440 house gatherings.Less than 10% involved sudentsOnly 13 involved more than 15

The greattest difference between Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson yesterday wasn't to do with the household visiting rules. They were to do with the way they defined the relationship between

This is a serious error.If there is one clear lesson from psychology, it is that you secure adherence by engaging with people and supporting them, not by blaming and threatening

COVID cases spike to 3000 a dayGovernment blames young people realxing and partying and endangering everyone else.This is so wrong and so counter-productive.Here are four reasons why First, it is