[embed]https://soundcloud.com/phodson/hodson-on-infidelity[/embed] Phillip Hodson discusses on radio the anguish of rejected love. Note - it's assumed by the interviewer that the owner of the damaged car is a man though this may be untrue. Questions covered: Is taking revenge a useful psychological release? Can you...
In journalism's olden days, physical copy had to be transported to the typesetter - sometimes even by train from London to Manchester! Today, instant communication brings with it the dubious luxury of last minute corrections. Case in point. I am asked by a columnist...
Letter published in The Times, April 29th 2015: Auschwitz-survivor Eva Kor claims she has 'forgiven' her death-camp tormentors. Your correspondent, Meira Ben-Gad (April 28th) says that remorse by the offender has to precede any rational act of forgiveness. In fact, the nature of human trauma requires...
Article published in The Daily Telegraph 27th march 2015 Since 1994 probably 600 people have been deliberately killed by pilots crashing their planes into the ground. In a heartbeat, a person charged with protecting the lives of all on board has become a lethal weapon. Andreas...
Medically speaking, until you've found yourself strapped to a vertical bench in the hospital gown of your nightmares while female nurses insert a two-way catheter plus video attachment into your manhood, I'd suggest you haven't lived. Especially when the procedure culminates in a perverse form...
Letter on NHS spending published in The Times, December 15th 2014 "Sir, Of course just profiteering is 'bad' (letter, Dec 12). But worse is accepting public ownership without fiscal restraint - otherwise raising taxes simply to pay doctors and nurses wages equivalent to those of footballers...
Sir, Dr Domingue (letters, Oct 13) suggests copying the Elgin Marbles and sending the originals east. Common sense suggests sending the replicas instead. In my lifetime, Greece has been dominated by commnists and fascists. Now it is broke and volatile: not the place...
Phillip discusses the story of yet another MP caught out by a sex scandal and attempts to explain why they do it...
Published in the Independent, Friday 3rd October 2014 For part 1 click here. Every two hours, I have an urgent appointment en suite. For three years, I’ve suffered from benign prostatic enlargement (BPH) affecting most older men. In a previous article I mocked the word “benign” but...
Commissioned by the BBC and published in a shorter version online as "A marriage counsellor on healing the referendum hurt" on September 20th 2014. As civil conflicts go, this Scottish referendum campaign has not been in the major leagues. England’s Civil War killed an estimated 190,000...