Bronx hospital shooting – another tragic rampage 1 July 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Radicalisation , No Comments I recently posted about the emotional dysfunction underlying the Finsbury Park and Westminster Bridge attacks in London. A scant few days later, a shooting in New York with distinct emotional similarities has occurred. […]
Finsbury Park and Westminster Bridge – beyond the label ‘terrorist’ 29 June 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Radicalisation , 2 Comments On Wednesday 19 June 2017, a van rammed into pedestrians near the Finsbury Park mosque in north London. One man died and several others were injured. The van’s driver, 47-year […]
Bars and clubs – a front line in the war on patriarchy 24 June 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments It’s 8:30 on a Friday night and I’m seated at the bar of Revoluciòn de Cuba in Milton Keynes’ egregiously titled Theatre District. A mixologist who clearly loves his job […]
Horror films and the shame of sex 18 June 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , 2 Comments While most film genres rise and fall in popularity over the decades—we are currently in a mini-age of comic book action films—one genre stands head and shoulders above all others in durability: horror. […]
The end of the real-life Monopoly game 10 June 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments The kitchen is filling up. It was deserted for a while but they’re drifting in now, in growing numbers, their faces blank with shock or denial. They’re looking for a cup of tea and […]
This magnificent ‘selfie’ generation 8 May 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments I recently saw a Facebook meme that showed four teenage girls taking a selfie. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill’s epic cry during the Battle of Britain in 1940, the caption read: “Never in history has a generation taken so many […]
Westminster attack – the inability to express pain 26 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Radicalisation , No Comments On the morning of 22 March 2017, 52-year-old Khalid Masood ploughed his car into the crowd along Westminster Bridge before being shot by police near the Houses of Parliament. Four people died […]
Japan – sex fears and ghost towns 15 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Sexuality , 3 Comments Figures released by the Statistics Bureau of Japan reveal that the country’s population is declining. The 2010 census returned a figure of 128 million inhabitants. Five years later it fell by a million. […]
Porn categories reflect historical taboos 5 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Pornography , 1 Comment WARNING: Contains nude images As you are no doubt aware, PornHub recently released their statistics for 2016. Being very graphic people, they produced a nicely-coloured map of the world showing the top porn categories for […]
Shame-based issues #6 – Radicalisation 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Radicalisation , Shame , No Comments Radicalisation may seem a strange thing to lump in with shame-based issues, but every single extremist who ever lived has or had an unconscious but profound sense of shame. It is from this shame that […]