CW: More death chat throughout. N.B. For my short critique on the problems of liberalism and liberal psychology you can look back at a previous post that can be found here. N.B. This isn’t really a blog post on what liberalism is per se, more on the

N.B. This is the transcript of my introductory speech at the first Community Learning Day held by Educational Psychologists for Material Change, on Inequality and Psychology. I try to explore the way liberal ideology blinds liberals to their own perpetuation of inequality, as exemplified by the 2026 DECP Conference.

C.W. References to mental health difficulties. N.B. I am hoping this will be the first of a 3-part blog series on the ontological foundations of Western psychology (i.e. what psychology assumes about the nature of reality). Here I am less interested in repackaging what Ed Psych doctorate

CW: Discussion of prejudice, discrimination and oppression in all its forms, including sexism, racism, and anti-LGBTQIA+ discrimination. N.B. In the spirit with which I have aspired to write this article, I would like to begin by acknowledging a few things. Firstly, I would like to acknowledge my privilege within

CW: distressing content in relation to suicide. In April 2025, Californian teenager Adam Raine died by suicide. He was 16 years old. Adam’s father, in an attempt to understand what happened, looked through his phone and found deeply troubling conversations between Adam and ChatGPT, a ‘generative AI’ chatbot developed

CW: Detailed descriptions of death and dying. This blog was supposed to be focused on Marxism and psychology, and I promise my future writing will be more directly related to those themes, yet it seems I have chosen to open this post with an account of the death of my