Pnewsology
The week's news with a dash of psychology!
recent posts
- Pnewsology – the one about allies (who they are when we should ditch them!)
- Pnewsology – the one about war and how words matter
- Pnewsology – the one about freedom (and what we can say and do)
- Pnewsology – the one about heroes and why we need them (and what happens when people fall off their pedestal)
- Pnewsology – the one about the people behind the scenes – who knows and does what?
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The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with James Cannon at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 13/03/2026) Week ending 13/03/2026 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden This week there has been lots of talk of allies. Who our friends are, who…
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This has been a scary week dominated by the US / Israel attack on Iran with endless images of bombs falling and people dying. This started with the killing of the Iranian leader and his family. They quickly announced his successor. As I write, US / Israel have bombed a girl’s school in Iran and…
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The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with James Cannon at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 27/02/2026) Week ending 27/02/2026 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden We have a democracy and we live in the free world. But do we? This…
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The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with James Cannon at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 22/02/2026) Week ending 22/02/2026 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden This week’s news covered people who are heroes, those who have been heroes and those…
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The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with James Cannon at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 13/02/2026) Week ending 13/02/2026 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden It’s been a mixed bag of a week with lots of very sad stories of…
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The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with James Cannon at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 06/02/2026) Week ending 06/02/2026 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden This week, yet again, the Epstein files have dominated the news with stories of abuse,…
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The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with Mark Carter at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 31/01/2026) Week ending 30/01/2026 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden There have always been lords and serfs, upper class and working class and landlords and…
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Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with James Cannon at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 16/01/2026) The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Week ending 16/01/2025 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden This week has been grim with lots of images of death and talk of executions. …
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The week’s news with a dash of psychology! Jane Ogden (Professor in Health Psychology, Emeritus; email janeogden509@gmail.com; based on a conversation with James Cannon at Radio Surrey; 8.40 am 09/01/2026) Week ending 19/12/2025 All opinions are those of Jane Ogden This week’s news has been full of rules being broken with me frequently shouting at…