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David Wilson: Social media is teaching our boys how to hate

Misogyny is not innate but learned behaviour and increasingly boys and young men are learning how to hate from social media. Perhaps we’ve all...

23.04.2025 5

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David Wilson: Accept that Lucy Letby is a killer, no matter how 'nice' she seems

I’ve long accepted that the role of rational thought in human existence has been greatly exaggerated. We believe our team is going to win, despite...

26.03.2025 9

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David Wilson: Accept that Lucy Letby is a killer, no matter how 'nice' she seems

I’ve long accepted that the role of rational thought in human existence has been greatly exaggerated. We believe our team is going to win, despite...

25.03.2025 10

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Should Netflix's new true crime drama be allowed to play with the truth?

Can your diet cure cancer? The simple, and unequivocal answer to this question is it that it can’t cure cancer and to make such a claim to sell a...

05.03.2025 10

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Prof David Wilson: Luke Mitchell should never have been charged, let alone convicted

Convicted murderer Luke Mitchell has failed to win a legal battle at Scotland’s highest civil court over a parole board decision to deny him his...

20.02.2025 20

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David Wilson: The war on drugs is over. It's right to try something different

The opening yesterday of The Thistle in Glasgow, a Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF), funded by the Scottish Government, is merely the latest...

15.01.2025 20

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David Wilson: Why do good people do evil?

The two most iconic investigations in the entire history of social psychology are Stanley Milgram’s “obedience to authority” experiments conducted...

11.12.2024 5

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'Nothing can disguise the smell of death' - Slow Horses and a killer hoarder I’m on tour at the moment with the novelist Marcel Theroux, who surprised and delighted me the other day by commenting in our shared dressing room “oh, you smell nice” and then asking “what’s your cologne?” Let’s leave aside the cultural changes that have occurred over time to allow one man to ask another about what aftershave they might be using and instead think about smell more generally, and how it might specifically relate to crime.

I’ve been on a book tour recently with the novelist Marcel Theroux, who surprised and delighted me the other day by commenting in our shared...

01.10.2024 3

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