Two veteran US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists watched the BBC Panorama that led to the decapitation of its two leading executives. Their verdicts may surprise you …. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/bb…

Excellent piece by my colleague, Professor Ciara Smyth: The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about – The Irish Times irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/1…

ICYMI: Mental Health Reform was compelled to rebut a letter sent by the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland to lawmakers correcting what it deemed to be a series of inaccurate misrepresentations, among the assertions made by psychiatrists is that chemical restraint  “does not exist”

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Yes, answers are required while fully respecting the privacy and anonymity of all the children involved.

Really important study from Trinity College Dublin looking at challenges faced by people when discontinuing psychiatric medication, the uncertainty that prevails in terms of the best tapering strategy and the emotional impact of taking and/or stopping psychiatric medication.

Facts: "Members of the public have been led to believe we are overwhelmed, when applications are declining here and across Europe." irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/1…

Professor Ciara Smyth features on the latest episode of 'The Mick Clifford Podcast'. In this episode, Professor Smyth explores the facts, the myths and some of the lies that are now informing the public mood in the area of immigration law. Listen now: shows.acast.com/the-mick-cliff…

Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization. He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship. What a betrayal of American values!

Elon Musk, a South African immigrant born in Africa who votes in Texas, is annoyed that Somali immigrants born in Africa get to vote in Minnesota. There's only one thing he doesn't have in common with his fellow African immigrants in Minnesota.

Author, Chana Studley's, powerful series of interviews with critical mental health commentators is available here. Includes interviews with Bob Whitaker, Dr. Josef 🇺🇸, Antidepressant Risks, me and others subscribepage.io/bdxsummit

Human rights lawyer (ahem) Keir Starmer wants to curb human rights protections to - wait for it, instead protect the sensibilities of the far right. What's even crazier is the notion that migrants are treated equally before the law, because they are not... theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/0…

You are completely detached from reality. Why would Danes choose to immigrate to the United States when they enjoy free access to publicly funded healthcare and when even unskilled workers earn a far higher hourly wage than in the U.S.?

🚨 ‼️ This is MASSIVE. Michael O’Flaherty - Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner - highest authority on the ECHR outside the Court itself. 🔥 He has publicly told the UK that Starmer’s plan would BREAK the Good Friday Agreement. His exact words: •“The ECHR is at the

The ECHR exists to protect our most fundamental rights. Chipping away at it to pander to the far-right risks undermining those core values. Labour are trying to out-Reform Reform on immigration, but our human rights should never be sacrificed for political point-scoring.