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Numinous Neuroses? 13 Jan 2013 | 06:22 pm
The British Journal of Psychiatry published an interesting paper on their website in November but, to judge by the recent coverage, the PR has only just hit the newsrooms. Professor Michael King and ...
What's the Harm? 23 Dec 2012 | 10:37 pm
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It is very hard not to feel the deepest sympathy for everybody involved in the Neon Roberts case. Neon’s story hit the headlines earlier this month when a judge ...
Setting Own Goals? 31 Jul 2012 | 11:45 pm
An only half-serious memoir of flailing, derision, ostracism and black-eyes At school I was OK at maths and English, so it didn’t bother me much that I turned into a prototype dodo during PE. My pare...
Psychics and Princes 23 Jun 2012 | 10:31 pm
My great-grandmother was psychic. Everybody knew it. If a member of her extended family paid an impromptu visit from even a great distance, like London, they were greeted with a friendly smile and a ...
High Stakes 9 Jun 2012 | 09:45 pm
The more observant of you will have noticed that vampires have been in the news. No, not bankers. Although the droll current-affairs metaphor does apply, Voltaire got there first: describing the vampi...
Profanity and Nuptials, or, Get Your Hands Off My Language 20 Mar 2012 | 07:23 am
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Mr J has been researching World War I this week. One of the things which has given him most grief is trying to ascertain authentic swear-words from the trenches....
Sleep Paralysis: Leave Your Comments Here 29 Oct 2011 | 03:38 am
Following on from the article on Sleep Paralysis at Jourdemayne, here is the section for comments and recollections.
Time to Move ... 22 Sep 2011 | 04:51 am
Thanks for following me on Blogger. I've now moved to another platform so I can provide a few more bells and whistles. Please some to visit me at jourdemayne.com
The Heart of Darkness 15 Aug 2011 | 04:45 am
I grew up in Southall. It was OK: not much wrong, not much right. I remember listening to a chocolate advert’s jangling soundtrack which proposed we were in the ‘sophisticated 70s’. I wondered how we...
The Vampires of Rhode Island 23 Jun 2011 | 04:43 am
Part 1 Watch the podcast first: If your browser is having difficulty with embedding, just go here, and come back afterwards. Part 2 So here is a series of historical events, and a title: ‘The Vamp...
