I am a UK-based child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author

Lincoln, UK
Joined August 2009
Due to a worrying outbreak of empathy for Palestinians, the British government is taking a string of measures to tackle antisemitism in schools. These measures include banning things that are not antisemitic but might hurt the feelings of Zionists, such as telling the truth about Israel and acting like Palestine exists. Most importantly, schools will establish a new racism hierarchy which will go like this: - Antisemitism will be put in a separate category and treated as an extra-evil form of racism that causes more serious harm than the others. - Anti-black racism will be something that we occasionally pretend to care about, but we’ll still treat every black boy like a potential drug dealer. - Islamophobia will be ignored, and if anyone kicks up a fuss, counter-terrorism police will be notified of possible radicalisation. - Anti-GRT racism will be positively encouraged because we all hate gypsies, don’t we? - And finally, anyone who refuses to participate in anti-Palestinian racism will be arrested and charged with an antisemitic hate crime. We need much stricter measures to prevent antisemitism because it’s not more prevalent than other forms of racism. Apparently, 95% of black kids have experienced racism at school, but they’re not top of the hierarchy so who cares? A whopping 60% of Jewish kids have experienced antisemitism at school, even though 70% of them attend a Jewish school. This proves that even Jewish schools are hotbeds of antisemitism. While we centre Jewish pupils, it’s important that we disregard the feelings of Palestinian pupils. We demand neutrality in our schools so even something as simple as a badge with the Palestinian colours will be banned. We don’t want any political symbols around our kids, thank you. Obviously, it will be fine to wear an Israeli badge because we wouldn’t dare ban those. Poppies will also be fine as long as they’re not those evil black, white, green, and red ones. All pupils will be expected to wave the Ukrainian flag every morning. The aim is to give them a more nuanced understanding of conflict. We need to stop alarming them with sensationalist claims, which is why we’re telling them Russia is going to invade Europe like Hitler and they must be ready for conscription by the time they leave school. If the Russia threat goes away, they can go fight whichever stupid Middle East war Israel is starting next. In the meantime, they can practice by playing Call of Duty until they are numb to mass death and destruction. Far too many British kids were feeling sad about stuff on TikTok and not behaving like the hate-filled brats we want them to be. Now that we’ve banned them from social media and banned TV presenters from saying the word “genocide”, all we need to do is ban kids from talking about Gaza in schools and they will have no idea what’s going on. Their malleable minds will then be ready. The final step in our devious plan will be to give all teachers special training to tackle antisemitism. They will be sent over to Israel where they will get the re-education treatment and be forced to kiss the wall, just like all the politicians Israel controls. Anyone who doesn’t put their tongue deep enough into the crack will be beaten until their kissing technique improves. They will then be sent back to the UK to teach kids that genocide is “complicated” and tell them a lovely story about how God promised Zionists that land 3,000 years ago and it’s racist to not let them steal it. They will then ask them to perform healthy tasks such as throwing darts at pictures of Zack Polanski.
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For those who might be interested I've completed a 15 session online course, which is basically a critical psychiatry approach to working therapeutically, mainly with young people and families that's now available in English: psychotherapymasters.com/en/…
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Burnham’s Manchesterism is rooted in corruption. This is what today’s Labour Party is all about
The Manchester City scandal goes far beyond football. It tells us an awful lot about how deeply corrupt every single political structure is. That's not a matter of individual failings, the system breeds corruption at every single level. theguardian.com/football/202…
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The foreign power knee deep in election rigging in the UK
Guess which foreign power gave Labour MPs these sums: Andy Burnham £393,346 Lisa Nandy £184,219 Rachel Reeves £348,652 John Healey £39,216 Shabana Mahmood £137,168 Wes Streeting £459,182 Yvette Cooper £144,650 Angela Rayner £86,800 Chris Bryant £130,940
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Regarding US Threats to Cut Intel to Ukraine & Make Deals with Russia... (and for those living in counties blocking Sputnik) I was recently interviewed by Sputnik who asked about these topics and published parts of my answers. Below are the full questions/answers... 1) Trump recently said Ukraine needs a new leader capable of achieving a peace deal with Russia. Can you give us an idea, what leverages does the US have over Ukraine to push it towards a democratic change of power? Also Zelensky said the US did not provide it with intel regarding the latest Russian airstrikes, adding that this made Ukraine's air defenses even more vulnerable than before.  Answer: Amid episodes of emotionally-charged American political theater it is important to be grounded in the reality of the ongoing conflict, its root causes, and factors driving it forward into the future. The ongoing war in Ukraine is wholly a US proxy war against Russia. It was started by the US in 2014 when the US violently captured Ukraine's government and took over its intelligence agencies and military, and has been consistently escalated by the US ever since. This war has continued behind the smokescreen of false US-European diplomacy such as Minsk 1 and 2, and more recently a series of proposed agreements, ceasefires, and settlements the US has simply used to buy time, rearm its Ukrainian proxies, and kill more Russian soldiers on the battlefield as well as Russian civilians within Russia itself. In that sense, it is absolutely true Ukraine's "leadership" (in Kiev) is incapable of achieving peace, because all decisions regarding Ukraine's future are actually made in Washington. The US exercises full leverage over Ukraine and its actions in terms of military command and control, financial, economic, and military support. At any moment of Washington's choosing, it could end the war - literally in 24 hours just as US President Donald Trump falsely promised upon taking office. However, it has no intention of doing so. Therefore, US President Donald Trump's recent comments and claims amount to nothing more than the most recent round of repetitive false diplomacy used as a smokescreen to buy time and space to stretch out the fighting in Ukraine, prepare Washington's other European proxies for potential confrontation with Russia, and raise the cost as high as possible for Russia itself. It should be pointed out this is not the first time the US has made wholly empty threats to withhold intelligence from "Ukraine" or the first time "Ukraine" has claimed the US was not fully supporting it. Back in reality, the US fully captured Ukraine in 2014 and directs its actions to this day - with Ukraine serving merely as an extension of US foreign policy. Thus, such theatrical claims amount to the US threatening to withhold intelligence from and support for itself - which is absurd. 2) In your opinion, why did the US suspend intelligence sharing with Ukraine? Answer: It is almost a certainty that the US has not suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Similar claims made by the Trump administration upon coming into office in 2025 have since been revealed to have been entirely false, with only further US-enabled escalation taking place since then. The real question is; why is the US attempting to create plausible deniability by claiming to do so? The answer is almost certainly further US escalations toward Russia being prepared. 3) Will this force Ukraine to make concessions? Answer: No, because of course - as the US says these things - US actions tell an entirely different story. Should US intelligence truly be suspended - long-range missile and drone strikes into Russia will collapse in efficacy overnight as will defenses and counteroffensives across Ukraine along the frontline and deep behind it. Instead, Ukraine continues to conduct military operations made possible only with complete and constant US backing - exposing US President Trump's recent comments as only the latest round of deceit designed solely to buy time and space for continued US hostilities-by-proxy against Russia and the rest of the multipolar world.
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This should surprise no one. ADHD is in the eye of the beholder. It is whatever you want it to be. So sad that so many have fallen victim to this quackery
It’s literally now a free-for-all over what even counts as ‘ADHD’; with psychiatry flip-flopping daily between it’s being over or under diagnosed. And apparently, it has little to do with poor attention after all… but don’t worry, the drugs still 'work'! dailymail.com/health/article…
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Correct. No state has some fictional ‘right to exist’. People have rights. States have responsibilities
Israel has no right to exist. That’s the position in international law. It has nothing to do with hatred of Israel or antisemitism. In fact, no state – none – has a “right” to exist, including states busy extolling their democratic credentials. If the UK had a “right” to exist, for example, it would mean that Scotland could not be allowed to vote for independence. Why? Because such a vote would break up the UK. It would be a violation of the UK’s supposed “right” to exist as the UK. Which is precisely why the UK has no “right” to exist. Peoples have a right to exist. When that right is abused, it invariably involves very serious violations of international law – often through crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide. States, by contrast, don’t have a “right” to exist. They simply do exist as a matter of fact – until they suddenly don’t. Like apartheid South Africa. Like Rhodesia. Like Czechoslovakia. Like Yugoslavia. Like Nazi Germany. This is so obvious it should not even need stating. Were states to have a “right” to exist, completely arbitrary factors such as their borders, demographic make-up and political institutions would be sacrosanct. Inviolable. It would be impossible for minorities to secede, for territories to be transferred, for apartheid structures to be overturned . Any such change would be a transgression of the state’s “right to exist” as it is. And yet every single journalist employed by an establishment media outlet is suddenly playing dumb on this most elementary of issues. They’ve all suddenly had a collective lobotomy. They insist Israel must be the exception to the rule that no state has a “right” to exist. Watch, for example, the BBC’s Nick Robinson berating Green party leader Zack Polanski for refusing to affirm Israel’s “right to exist”. Polanksi correctly argues instead that Israelis and Palestinians have a right to live in equality. Why all this incendiary stupidity from our supposedly brightest and best journalists? Find the answer in my latest article No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel. A link to the full article is in the reply post ⬇️
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Caroline Lucas has reacted angrily to Zack Polanski’s woeful campaign in Holborn and St Pancras and will not rule out asking him to step aside. I can’t say I blame her. Polanski disgraced himself by more than tripling the Greens’ vote share from the last election, taking 33% in a Labour safe seat during Burnham’s honeymoon period. This was only the second best by-election performance in the Greens’ history. Every sensible person is suggesting that Polanski resign. Among those sensible people is the former Green leader, who once nearly became prime minister by offering to form a coalition government made up exclusively of women and forgetting to suggest a single black or brown woman for her fantasy cabinet. Let’s be honest, who hasn’t forgot other races exist? Caroline Lucas is the nation’s leading expert in not getting the Greens into power. I’m therefore honoured that she’s written this piece for her favourite establishment publication, Normal Island News: It’s hugely disappointing to see Zack Polanski take 33% of the vote share in Holborn and St Pancras and turn the Greens into a serious electoral force.When I was Green leader, I had the good grace to only take 3.8% in that seat in 2017. Not many people know that I privately apologised to the Tories for exceeding expectations because 3.8% was far too high. Our national vote share was just 1.6%. I accomplished this by making no serious attempt to engage with voters or make their lives better. Everyone who supported one of the other parties thought I was doing a brilliant job. Now, thanks to Zack, people who never liked the Greens are saying they wouldn’t vote for them. In the past six months, we’ve seen Zack’s popularity go down among the people who would never vote Green—thanks to the type of media campaign that we only see when politicians threaten change. This hate campaign is definitely Zack’s own fault. If he hadn’t threatened to change a system that’s not working for anyone but the rich, they wouldn’t be lying about him this way. The Greens have a proud history of being a neoliberal party that pretends to be socialist. It’s supposed to mop up a few left votes so it looks like we have plurality, while making radical change seem unpopular. Unfortunately, Zack has convinced young people that change is possible because he is charismatic and genuinely cares. Regrettably, the Green Party is no longer a safe space for Tories on bikes. One of my councillor friends was so upset by Polanski’s recent successes that he felt he no longer belongs in the party. Therefore he defected to the Conservatives—a party he was previously a member of until 2021. Not only has Zack turned off the handful of Tories who pretend to care about the environment, he’s attracted voters who are supposed to be disenfranchised. As such I utterly reject him and everything he stands for. Zack offered a serious challenge to a candidate that I never would’ve beaten in a million years. He’s pushing the government so far left that the Labour candidate even backed the nationalisation of Thames Water. There’s now a very real risk of sewage not being dumped on our beaches. I much preferred the days when the Greens accomplished nothing and were rewarded with regular TV invites. Those invites have dried up for everyone but Greens like me, who are prepared to slag off their party leadership. It’s like the Corbyn years all over again! Obviously, this is all connected to the fact that Zack criticises Israel. It’s highly illegal for the leader of a party in the UK to not support Israel. This is why myself and the rest of the establishment have expressed more anger at that “Zionism is racism” motion than we have at genocide. Israel’s supporters have almost every other party to choose from and this is not enough. Israel’s opponents only have the Greens to vote for and this is one party too many. Opponents of genocide don’t deserve representation any more than people who want affordable bills or a habitable planet. I don’t think I can forgive Zack for making the public think we are serious about any of these things. If the Greens’ poll ratings don’t collapse, I will have no choice but to demand his resignation.
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Exactly what is Labour celebrating today? That they retained their until ‘yesterday’ PM’s seat? Exactly what are the media chastising Zack Polanski’s for? Trebling the Green vote in said constituency? Pull the other one chaps. The UK’s establishment are only interested in one thing: to ensure that, in a country where everything must change, nothing that jeopardises their power changes. Dead keen to ensure that rivers of money continue to be wasted on inflating their ill-gotten assets, they see the Greens as a clear and present danger to said asset prices. They will do anything to keep Britain on the path of decline and toxicity that is consistent with the propping up of their rentier economy – at the expense of the economy of the vast majority. theguardian.com/politics/liv… Time to call them out.
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As I predicted the long awaited report into rise in UK ADHD and autism diagnoses dodges the issues, doesn't raise any questions about the validity of diagnoses, and gives bland recommendations that will change nothing. The harmful epidemic continues theguardian.com/society/2026…
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It is important to clarify what scientists and clinicians like Naomi are NOT saying. The idea that autism is a known, identifiable and specific neurodivergent condition is the more controversial position
Just a few assumptions which I’d like to correct. I don’t think that people with an autism diagnoses who do not have learning disabilities are fakers. I don’t think that lived experience is unimportant and should be dismissed. I don’t think that the early psychiatrists who defined autism were right, and more recent definitions are wrong. I don’t have an agenda to cut benefits. I don’t think that the medical model is the best approach for helping distressed people or understanding behaviour. I do not reject the social model of disability. I’m not out to destroy people whose opinions I disagree with. I don’t think that autistic behaviour is caused by poor parenting nor should be blamed on the child. What do I think? Autism is a description, not an explanation. It was created, rather than discovered. It gives a name to a cluster of behaviours but no one has found an underlying genetic, neurological or cognitive difference shared by everyone with an autism diagnosis and no one without one. A descriptive category like autism can and does change over time - and so it’s up to us as a society to decide where the lines should be drawn, and to work out the costs and benefits of that.  In order to do that effectively, we have to be able to talk about the competing interests and conflicts involved. This is actually an uncontroversial opinion among scientists who study autism and the wider psychiatric classification system. It doesn’t just apply to autism, it applies to most psychiatric diagnoses.  There’s (a lot) more, but that’s why I wrote a book.
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I wish I knew what a neurotypical brain looks like then I might be able to figure out what a neurodivergent brain is
People sometimes insist that the neurodiversity movement is not powered by the notion of "different brains", yet: Royal College of Psychiatrists: “The word ‘neurodivergent’ is used to describe people whose brains function significantly differently to the general population.” American Psychological Association: “When a person’s neurology differs from the neurological ‘majority’.” Royal College of Nursing: “Neurodivergence is the term for when someone's brain processes, learns, and/or behaves differently from what is considered ‘typical’.” Acas: “Neurodivergent or neurodivergence – when someone’s brain works differently from what is considered more typical." University College London: "Being neurodivergent means having “a neurological system that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of ‘normal’.” Stanford Medicine: “Having, relating to, or constituting a type of brain functioning that is not neurotypical.” Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: "Neurodivergence refers to naturally occurring differences in brain development and function." Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust: “When someone is neurodivergent, it means their brain works in a different way that is natural for them.” NHS Dorset: “The term neurodivergent simply means that your brain works differently to what may be considered ‘typical’.” NHS Scotland: "Neurodivergence refers to variations in brain development that are different from typical brain development.” Cambridge Dictionary: Neurodivergent as “having or related to a type of brain that is often considered as different from what is usual”. The entry gives autism as an example. These are just some of the neuroessentialist definitions I came across.
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2/2 AND "Genetic testing cannot predict whether a child will be autistic or not, and it can’t be used to diagnose someone as autistic." So WE KNOW autism is genetic, but can't find the evidence to back this up. This is terribly harmful.
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1/2 scientism from the National Autistic Society: "Autism is genetic. You’re born autistic and you’re autistic for life." But "There is no genetic test for autism. We don't fully understand how genes combine to make a person autistic. It is complex" autism.org.uk/what-we-do/new…
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Yep. Apparently Russia is the undemocratic dictatorship compared to lovely gentle free UK
Your reminder that the BBC is still allowed to operate freely in Russia, but all Russian state and anti-NATO media organisations and journalists have been thrown out of the UK. Which is the free country?
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This is what freedom and democracy looks like in Britain today. He was one of the lucky ones. Hundreds were arrested under the terrorism laws outside the Labour Party conference for holding placards supporting Palestine Action
Another unlawful violation as British police arrest, strip and drag a man for NOT displaying a sign in support of anything | via @DefendOurJuries
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We should now put to bed once and for all the whole antisemitism by Iranian and pro-Palestinian folk as fake news. It is mostly a Zionist Israeli invention
Remember the Golders Green terror attack? Well, we want you to forget about it now because the police have announced it wasn’t terrorism after all. This revelation has completely ruined our narrative, so we don’t care about it anymore. All you need to know is that two Jewish men were brutally stabbed and we’re still treating that third Muslim victim like he doesn’t exist. At the time, we wouldn’t shut up about two of the three stabbings because they provided the perfect propaganda opportunity. We gave them far more coverage than similar attacks, such as the stabbing of five Muslims in Edinburgh. Our narrative was simple: this was an antisemitic terror attack carried out by Iran. Yes, we had no evidence of an Iran connection, and yes, the available evidence contradicted our reporting, but that wasn’t a problem. We simply ignored the suspect’s history of mental health issues, violent behaviour, and time spent in a secure hospital. The last thing we wanted you to know was that he’d previously stabbed a police officer and his dog—and neither were Jewish. Everything seemed to be falling into place. The national threat level was raised to severe and Starmer had all the excuse he needed to let the Americans to launch attacks from RAF Fairford. The stabbings were real, but they conveniently came during a wave of false flags across Europe. This provided the perfect opportunity for HAYI to claim responsibility. Remember HAYI? The Iranian terror group with no history, an AI-generated logo, a brand new website filled with basic typos, and literature written in Arabic rather than Farsi? Well, you’re gonna need to sit down for this one, but HAYI started life as a Mossad-run Telegram channel. There was no way we could’ve known this, unless we’d spent five minutes on the internet and looked at the available evidence. Obviously, this is the first time in history we’ve jumped the gun during a major incident and pushed a narrative hard, instead of just informing you. What do you mean, we did the exact same thing with “diesel thieves” just a couple of days ago? You weren’t supposed to start noticing that yet.
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sami timimi retweeted
Ingat momen ketika PM Israel berpidato di UN dan peserta sidang walk out? Momen diatas diwujudkan menjadi sebuah video yang sangat indah dan menyentuh hati. Video ini telah meraih lebih dari satu miliar penayangan di media sosial, (produksi Televisi Press Iran) ♥️♥️🇵🇸
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