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Dr Richard Lawson Profile picture
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May 27 • 6 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
@BBCr4today asks “How can we have a grown up conversation about migration?”

You do this by putting the subject its context.

Migration is a worldwide phenomenon.
UK is in the middle range of comparable countries.
Then you look at the causes of migration #r4today Image
.@BBCr4today The four causes of migration are clear:
1 War
2 Oppressive authoritarian governments
3 Relative poverty
4 Increasingly, climate change.

It’s absurd to imagine that UK can stop migration without addressing these global problems. They can be addressed, in many ways
War can be reduced by the UN giving attention to separatism, which is behind about one half of current wars

greenerblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/separa…
Authoritarian and oppressive government can be addressed by the Green Party’s Global Index of Human Rights greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/r… @BBCr4today #r4today
International poverty needs a range of measures, but facilitating photovoltaic electricity installations in hot countries, and a network of HVDC electricity grids is an important part of this.

Controlling activities of mega corporations in LDCs is also important #r4today
Climate change needs a wide range of measures too, but for you, @BBCr4today , the key is to discuss Net Zero in an intelligent way that recognises the problem of climate change.

Insulate Britain - actually doing it - is a good place to start #r4today

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May 29
What shall we do about mental health services?

First, look at prevalence of mental health problems.
They increase with increasing inequality in society:

equalitytrust.org.uk/mental-health #r4today Image
Germany, Spain and Italy may be doing something right, because their incidence of mental health problems is lower than the trend. We should take a closer look at mental health in those countries
After WWII, demand for mental health services far exceeded supply, due to huge numbers affected by PTSD.

Group psychotherapy was used to meet this need.

We should look at this approach again
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Sep 8, 2022
The #climatescam is a highly successful disinformation campaign that benefitted the fossil fuel industry and delayed the introduction of the sustainable economy by approximately four decades, between the 1980s until the early 2020s.
A scam is a confidence trick inflicted on naive people by tricksters.

There is an absolute division between the majority who accept the physics describing what is happening to our planet, and a small but utterly convinced minority who believe that there is a conspiracy…
…involving the entire scientific community in order to impose high levels of taxation.

The scammers reject science and prefer the scrambled and contradictory accounts provided by a small handful of hard right opinion formers.
#ClimateScam
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Mar 27, 2022
Putin’s patsy, Johnson, our PM, has given up following the science on Covid, and decided instead to follow the libertarian Covid deniers.

He has removed all restrictions. We are back to normal. No masks, no distancing, and if you have a virus you are expected to go to work
1/
We have learned nothing.
150,000 UK citizens have died a choking death, many well before their time.
Our death rates are higher than Europe and the EU
Our case numbers are world beating.
Yet we have learned nothing
2/
There is one simple salient lesson we could learn from this pandemic:

If you are ill, stay home.
Stay out of circulation.
Don’t go on the bus, don’t go to work, don’t cough your virus laden cough over other people.

Just don’t spread your misery.
If you are ill, stay home.

3/
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Sep 13, 2021
If we want to avoid lockdown in the Autumn, we should all be taking the best precautionary measures against transmission.

Instead, we are behaving as if the pandemic is over.

The pandemic is not over.

We may be getting bored with Covid, but SARS-Cov2 doesn’t do bored.
1/
At present, the “libertarians” are running the show.

Cases, hospitalisations, ICU patients and deaths are all going up, but the “libertarians” say, “Fine. Let it Rip. Take it on the Chin”.

Is this OK?

We need to have a discussion
2/
The alternative is that we ventilate liberally, and where this is not possible we install HEPA air purifiers.

And we refresh our social distancing skills.

And we mask up again. Problem is, the “libertarians” will have a fit of the vapours if we ask them to do this.
3/
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Jul 4, 2021
One of the things that are holding us back from change is the very widespread, very understandable belief that it is useless writing to your MP.

Thing is, is enough of us write asking for the same thing, they must take notice. We just have to be of one mind
1/
One thing that pretty much unites us all is that we value the NHS.
So we could all write to ask our MP (and all PPCs* too) that they will work to oppose and reverse the privatisation of the NHS.

Most MPs will respond with declarations of love towards the NHS, followed by guff
2/
We must then start to disentangle and respond to their evasions, brining them back to a clear declaration of intent to halt and reverse the privatisation of the NHS.

This will take some work, but it can be done. Maybe in letter writing groups.

It’s will be hard. But…
3/
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Jan 7, 2021
The riots on Capitol Hill in January 2021 will occupy social psychologists for decades.

Here is my preliminary formulation as a psychiatrist:

1. There exists a widespread delusion that a political elite exists whose aim is to remove people’s rights and freedoms

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2. In this delusion the elite operate by creating elaborate myths about general threats to well-being such as man-made climate change and Covid-19

3/ These myths are propagated using the scientific community (!) who are drawn into a quasi-religious system of false thinking
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4. Step 3 of this delusion represents projection

5. The delusions are propagated and amplified through right wing voices in the MSM (e.g. Daily Mail and Telegraph), alt-right channels such as Breitbart, and talk radio shock-jocks

3/
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