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  RielleUK: The Gap Between Impulse and Catastrophe... (27.4.26) 27 April 2026 | 2026 posts I came across the story of Klaudia Zakrzewska (Klaudia - left in picture) and Gabrielle Carrington (Rielle - right in picture) on social media. Although I know very little about the "influencer" world (I have virtually no interest), I've found myself following it with a kind of grim attention as my brain tries to make sense of one awful moment of drunken rage and a lifetime of consequences.  The facts, as far as they are publicly known, are these. In the early hours of Sunday 19 April, Klaudia Zakrzewska, a 32-year-old Polish-born influencer known online as Klaudiaglam, was outside the Inca nightclub in Soho after a night out with friends. There was a heated argument with another woman, Gabrielle Carrington, a 29-year-old social media personality and former X Factor contestant who uses the name RielleUK. Both of these women are competitors in a similar "influencing" space...

On Scale...(2.4.26) 2 April 2026 | 2026 posts As a kid the books that interested me the most were always "short history of everything" style almanacs. The sort that were crammed with factoids that made me think "wow!". To be honest, it didn't matter if these were about dinosaurs, medical things (one favourite was a big flowchart book called "Family Health" outlining all manner of ailments), physics-lite, aliens, or astronomy. Anything that made the young me marvel at the great unknown and, I think, bump me into a new and thrilling perspective. Later on, I really valued Bill Bryson's  A Short History of Nearly Everything  and a similar book by Geoffrey Blainey, tracking the arc of humanity. Later still, the brilliant  Sapiens  by Harari, which I'm currently reading for the third time at least. If I could pick a book to write, it would probably be that one. However, sadly for you dear reader, I am more like the bumbling Bryson on these things, an...

  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...