Mental health
Shrinking feeling
Let’s leave mental health diagnoses to the professionals
Letters
China has peaked Sir: Niall Ferguson makes some good points about the nature of Xi Jinping’s imperial aspirations but misses…
Britain’s mental health problem
Experts tell us that we are facing a mental health ‘time bomb’ in the UK, partly as a consequence of…
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil… the Art of Starting Over
Grade: Z If you wish to experience the full hideousness of Now, of our current age, condensed into one awful…
Our mental health is going up in smoke
As we creep back into the open, as the Covid wards empty and the mental health clinics fill up, how…
Real life
‘Welcome to Victims First. Please leave your name and number and we will return your call. Beeeeeeeeeeeep!’ I had rung…
Real life
An everlasting lightbulb brighter than the Dog Star was installed in the street lamp outside my house one morning as…
Diary
I start the week with someone throwing faeces at me. I thought people were supposed to clap for doctors these…
Real life
Never mind Clap for Carers, I’m trying to start a new weekly morale booster called Scream If You’re Going Round…
High life
Gstaad Lord Belhaven and Stenton, a wonderful man and the quintessential English gentleman, died at 93 just before the end…
How to be content
The Covid-19 pandemic is apparently causing a large number of mental health problems. On that subject, one could do a…
Is liberalism really a mental illness?
Conservative pundits like Michael Savage and Mark Dice like to ruffle feathers by claiming that liberalism is a mental disorder.…
Kanye West is the sanest presidential candidate
Kanye West has again proven his ability to draw the attention, fascination and ire of the public — this time…
Force of nature
Spending time outside is vital for mental health
Time to scrap the Goldwater Rule
This article is in The Spectator’s April 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. There are few ironclad rules in…
An avocado a day…
The latest fad involves eating your way to better mental health
What I’ve learned from five months sleeping on the streets
Over the years, I have spent around five months sleeping rough on the streets of London, Birmingham and New York,…
I like Brassic but the reason it’s getting such glowing notices is depressing
Brassic (Sky One) feels like the sort of TV comedy drama they last made about 15 years ago but would…
Joe Biden isn’t ‘gaffe-prone’, he’s losing his mind
‘Gaffe?’ Who invented this nonsensical term? Its only common usage seems to be among political journalists and pundits, as a…
The daunting, uplifting prose of The Psalms
As if in defiance of the BBC’s current obsession with programming designed to entice in that elusive young and modish…
Self-Help goes mainstream – can Marianne Power survive her own quest?
Is there anyone left who’d still be mortified to have it known that they’d purchased, or maybe even benefited from,…
Antidepressants saved me – but they made my mental health worse
Antidepressants saved my life, I am sure of that. But I am also certain they made my mental illness much…
Unsensitive, Unhumane and Uncredible: Unsane reviewed
Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, Unsane, is a psychological thriller about a woman who is incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital even…
Don’t let these figures depress you, girls
Are British teenagers suffering from an epidemic of mental illness? Yes, according to a ‘government-funded study’ which found that 24…
Seeing the light
‘You can’t lie… on radio,’ says Liza Tarbuck. The Radio 2 DJ was being interviewed for the network’s birthday portrait,…
