
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”
(may contain spoilers) There is a strange symmetry between Danny Boyle’s new film, 28 Years Later, and Adam Curtis’s five-part series Shifty. Both were released in the latter part of 2025 and contain references to the notorious sex offender and...
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
One of the age-old problems for ‘public health’ has always been how to get people to adopt more healthy behaviour change. How can citizens be persuaded to vaccinate themselves, eat healthier food or avoid obvious harms such as smoking? Of...
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Nasty Bugs and Foreign Threats