Archive for November 2025

I found myself appreciating Die My Love primarily as an antidote to tradwife propaganda. Like so many influencer accounts, the film serves up scene after scene of a beautiful blond woman — with professionally styled hair and makeup — cavorting in green fields and caring for her infant in gorgeously photographed settings. But every single one of these scenes is terrifying, cringe-inducing or both.

For the vast majority of my psychotherapy patients, the gravitational pull of phones and social media alters the most important aspects of who they are, their relationships with others and how they move through the world. This is true for most of us. Our uptake of technology has been so rapid that we are losing the ability to notice how it feels to live this way. Occasionally, in therapeutic conversations, a patient can get in touch with these feelings. It often looks like grief.

More than 15 million Canadians are single. Why are we being charged for it?

Academic censorship often begins not with overt repression but with the discursive framing of a perceived threat. Such campaigns unfold in three phases: casting dissenters as existential threats, amplifying the threat through media and political discourse, and publicly penalizing dissent to deter others. Dissent is reimagined as deviance—a danger to institutional integrity, societal order, or national security—thereby justifying repressive measures (Cohen 1972; Hall et al. 1978). Universities have historically participated in this process. During the McCarthy era, the House Un-American Activities Committee policed political ideology through public hearings and blacklists, prompting institutions to enforce conformity. At the University of California, the board of regents imposed a loyalty oath in 1950, resulting in thirty-one terminations; over 100 faculty nationwide lost positions under similar pressures (Heins 2013; Schrecker 1986). These dismissals were not isolated policy decisions—they were performative acts of ideological purification designed to signal compliance and suppress resistance.

As EU member states transpose the EU’s Platform Work directive into national law, the experience following the Spanish Rider Law reveals the challenges in adapting to an economy increasingly impacted by algorithmically managed digital platforms.

Hundreds of social workers came together… for the City of Wolverhampton Council’s 10th annual Adults and Children’s Joint Social Work Conference.

This week, BASW Cymru and SWU took our joint campaign – Stronger Social Work, Better Lives – which calls for a better supported and resourced social work profession, to the Senedd.