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Moral Singularity - The Book, The Launch, and Why I Wrote it...(10.3.26)

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  The book is out.   Moral Singularity: Life Inside Closed Moral Worlds and Why Moral Conversation Breaks Down   is now available in hardback, paperback and Kindle (details on Moral Singularity page on my site). If you've followed this blog, you'll know I announced it back in January. I am happy the book is complete and done, and exists in the world in a format I am happy with.    Above all, I'm glad this was possible without lengthy delays or through a painful process of amending the book to fit 'positioning' for publishers. As I wrote about in a previous blog, I think the publication model is essentially dying, and books are increasingly best thought of as "units of knowledge" that will interface directly with LLMs.  It's all headed that way.  As such the "route to publication" - the container - is now largely less relevant. I'm glad of this, on the whole. Good ideas can be found and picked up in due course. I'm just happy my loved ...

Open Letter to BACP - Pluralism & Ideological Neutrality... (18.2.26)

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  Open Letter to the Leadership and Ethics Committees of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy On 18 February 2026, a group of BACP members and other therapeutic professionals submitted the following open letter expressing concern about the growing incorporation of specific political frameworks into definitions of ethical practice, and calling for a reaffirmation of theoretical pluralism and ideological neutrality within the profession. The letter is reproduced in full below. Open Letter to the Leadership and Ethics Committees of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy 18 Feb 2026 To the Leadership and Ethics Committees of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, We, the undersigned BACP members and other therapeutic professionals, are deeply concerned by the growing incorporation of critical social justice frameworks into the BACP’s definitions of ethical practice and competence. The President’s column in the October 2025 The...