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  The BACP Has Responded. Here Is What They Said. And What They Didn’t. Dear reader,  If you are a glutton for punishment, you may have followed the open letter I wrote along with Nash Popovic to the BACP on pluralism and ideological neutrality, prompted in part by the President’s October 2025  Therapy Today  column on “whiteness.” The open letter was signed by more than sixty colleagues across the profession, and the BACP has now finally replied.  For those with the stomach, the full response, the original letter, and my analysis are below. It is much longer than usual, but I wanted to keep the whole thing in one place and do it properly before closing out this particular exercise. ------- The Open Letter (18 February 2026) The full text of the open letter to the BACP, convened by Steve Perkins and Nash Popovic. Open Letter to the Leadership and Ethics Committees of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy 18 Feb 2026 To the Leadership and Ethi...

  Manosphere...(18.3.26) 18 March 2026 | 2026 posts A client asked me last week if I had watched the new Louis Theroux documentary "Inside the Manosphere". To be honest, I hadn't but felt I should have. I'd probably would have skipped it altogether as I felt sure it would follow the incurious formula that seems inevitable when any triple-A journalist investigates the thorny topic of "masculinity". I'm still in a period of physical recovery and don't want to make myself predictably and pointlessly angry or tax the nervous system. However, I felt this a bit unresponsive to what my client was talking about, so I watched it while taking a long walk on the running machine. Firstly, the response to the show has been predictable. Critics have praised it. Celebrities have posted emotional reactions on Instagram (which should already serve as a serious warning). The cycle of alarm about Andrew Tate and the online world of hypermasculine content creators has s...