We are often contacted by people who would like to keep track of our work and our thinking. We sometimes find it hard to keep track with each other as we share articles, videos and podcasts which seem to connect with our work and ideas.
This Log Not Blog page is here so that we can share and log these various sources not just between ourselves in the group, but with other interested people.
Please do get in touch (contact@midpsy.uk) if you have something to share which you think we might be interested in.
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NHS talking therapies update
At a time when the UK government is again enlisting mental health services to get people back into work, this update on NHS talking therapies shows a continuing picture of high attrition and arguably poor outcomes. NHS talking therapies updatehttps://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/does-the-nhs-talking-therapies-service-have-an-attrition-problem
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Musa al-Gharbi on woke
In this interview, blog editor Elena van Stee chats with Musa al-Gharbi’s new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. The book explores the emergence of a new “woke” elite and the hidden ways they actively benefit from and perpetuate the inequalities they vocally oppose. They also discuss Musa’s…
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Jonathan Cook on tooth-fairy politics
This piece by Jonathan Cook is perhaps the perfect compliment to the Dissident article; it’s been clear for a long time that the UK is a dystopia, enabled by pretend liberal media. Tooth fairy: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-buying-into-tooth?r=1bljal&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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The Dissident on the US election results
The Dissident seems to skewer most of the main issues in the US election result, although it perhaps doesn’t pay enough attention to the racism and religious fundamentalism within some sections of American society that also contributed to Trump’s victory. The Dissident: https://the307.substack.com/p/why-did-the-democrats-suffer-such?r=1bljal&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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George Monbiot on extreme wealth
A simultaneously awful and beautiful article by George Monbiot. In the MPG we have discussed whether there a link between the frictionless experience of top executives and their willingness to ruthlessly attack workers; about how capitalism disconnects people from the world and relationships; like the guy in his boat, completely disconnected from the awe and…
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The Spirit Level 15th anniversary
The fifteenth anniversary of Wilkinson & Pickett’s The Spirit Level, which sounded the alarm on economic injustice: The Spirit Level: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-base/the-spirit-level-at-15/
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