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When the Taxman Calls: My Catastrophising Chronicles
The Fateful Phone Call The other day, I was minding my own business when my phone rang – not with the usual banter from a friend or client, but with a call from the taxman doing a survey about IR35. Despite having done nothing remotely wrong, my mind immediately spiralled into a full-blown disaster movie. In an instant, I was envisioning secret conspiracies, ...
Cognitive Dissonance: What is It?
I’ve recently encountered the term “cognitive dissonance” repeatedly in the media, and until now, I hadn’t quite grasped what it truly meant. After some thought and reflection, I’ve come to understand it in a much clearer, more personal way. What Is Cognitive Dissonance? Cognitive dissonance is essentially that uneasy feeling you get when your ...
The Handmaid’s Tale Was Not Supposed to Be a How-To Guide
America, once the self-declared land of the free, is hurtling towards something chillingly familiar—Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, but with worse food and even more guns. With Donald Trump poised for a return to power, the country stands on the brink of a far-right, theocratic nightmare, where civil liberties are stripped away in the name of religious ...
Could Lucy Letby Be Innocent? Questions Raised by the Private Eye Report
Like most people, when I first heard about Lucy Letby’s conviction, I had no doubt that justice had been served. The idea of a neonatal nurse deliberately harming babies is horrifying beyond words, and her whole-life sentence seemed to reflect the gravity of the crimes she was found guilty of. But now, after reading the recent Private Eye report on the case, I ...
The Irony of the Anti-Woke Movement: Who’s Really Shutting Down Free Speech?
In today’s media circus, the myth of wokeness has become the rallying cry for a certain band of dodgy pundits. Outlets like GB News and their merry band of followers who claim that nowadays, no one can utter a word without risk of being muzzled by an omnipotent censor. The reality, however, is far more laughable and darkly ironic: it’s not that society has ...