The BBC, State Power, and the Right to Step Away
There is a question that hovers over every discussion of BBC reform, but which is too often brushed aside before it has been properly considered. […]
This Isn’t Working – The Lost Mythos
The recent episode of This Isn’t Working, featuring HR commentator Tanya de Grunwald in conversation with clinical psychologist Jaco van Zyl, circles an issue that […]
Distraction Therapy – January Unfolding with Matthew Colthup
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-01-15-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds as a winter conversation, shaped as much by mood as by argument. Recorded in mid-January, it opens in that […]
The Feminisation of Institutions and the Lost Language of the Symbolic Feminine
The recent Triggernometry conversation with Helen Andrews centres on a provocative but important claim: that many of the cultural pathologies now gathered under the label […]
Breaking the Spell of Convention – Gnostic and Hermetic Strategies for Awakening, and Jung’s Reading of the “Aion”
When people speak about “breaking free of social convention”, they often mean a change of attitude, a refusal of conformity, or a personal re-imagination of […]
The Psychologist as Drama Critic – Consciousness, Role, and the Suspension of Disbelief
One way of understanding the work of the psychologist is to see them not primarily as a technician of symptoms or a manager of behaviours, […]
Pride and Predator – Questioning Groupthink
Julie Bindel’s Pride and Predator is a sober and unsettling piece of investigative journalism that raises questions many institutions have been reluctant to face. At […]
Ideology and Cosmology in the Gender Identity Controversy – Why the Argument Feels Immediate, and Why the Mythic Layer Is Often Missing
This article examines the gender identity controversy through a distinction between ideological and cosmological worldviews. It explains why contemporary debate is dominated by legal and […]
Making Things Work – Renewal, Myth, and the Limits of Debate in a Fragmented Britain
I went into the Triggernometry conversation with Jimmy Carr expecting to be mildly irritated, or at best indifferent. I have never been a fan of […]
Beyond Gender, Marcus Evans, and the Limits of a Purely Individual Myth
In a recent episode of the Beyond Gender podcast, psychoanalyst and former Tavistock governor Marcus Evans describes the crisis in youth gender medicine as “the […]