The Archive - Global Psych
2026 Dethrones 1984: When a Warning Turned Into a Guidebook
Re-reading George Orwell’s 1984 in 2026 feels less like revisiting dystopian fiction and more like recognising how modern America has normalised attacks on truth, language, history, and dissent.
Horseshoe Theory: Does It Have a Leg to Stand On?
Is horseshoe theory a useful way to understand politics, or just a flattering myth for centrists? A critical look at ideology, extremism, and the psychology of categorisation.
When Power Plays the Victim: DARVO, Trump, and the Politics of Reversed Harm
A critical examination of DARVO in politics, exploring Trump, strategic victimhood, audience psychology, and why modern political culture rewards deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender tactics.
Mirrors With Momentum: How AI Can Reflect, Reinforce, and Escalate Human Vulnerability
How can AI intensify delusion, grandiosity, self-harm, and suicide risk? This essay explores reflective escalation, human-AI relationships, and the psychology of dangerous validation.
The Ingroup Illusion: How Modern Societies Hide Their Own Monsters
A dark applied psychology essay on WEIRD societies, ingroup bias, and why modern cultures often fear outsiders while overlooking dangerous insiders hidden behind respectability.
How People Become Prejudiced: The Psychology of Closing Yourself Off
How do people become racist, sexist, or morally rigid? This political psychology essay explores how fear, identity, socialisation, and status anxiety can close people off from difference.
UK Immigration, Crime, and the Self-Fulfilling Funnel
UK immigration debates blame migrants for crime. This explainer shows how demographics, exclusion, and policy design drive outcomes instead.
How 2025 became the year the UK exported its weapons abroad and imported its repression at home
How the UK enforces terrorism law against protest while ignoring its own arms export obligations, exposing double standards, legal cherry-picking, and democratic erosion.
The White House’s “Media Offender” Page: An Academic Dissection of an Official Exercise in Projection, Propaganda, and Bureaucratic Immaturity
An in-depth analysis of the White House’s “Media Offender” page that uncovers factual distortions, psychological projection, bureaucratic immaturity, and the misuse of taxpayer resources. A damning academic teardown of an official propaganda effort disguised as fact-checking.
Trans Athletes in 2025: A Science First Direction
A detailed, evidence based analysis of transgender athletes in 2025, exploring science, fairness, hormone research, policy gaps, and sport specific solutions.
Nick Fuentes’ Cult‑Like Radicalization Tactics and Extremist Rhetoric
Nick Fuentes has evolved from a fringe online provocateur into the leader of a disciplined, insular youth movement built on white nationalism and authoritarianism. This piece examines how he deploys cult-style manipulation, coded language, and digital organizing to recruit and radicalize followers—and why his growing influence in U.S. politics matters.
Drones, Soldiers, and the Politics of Risk: Technology’s Challenge to Modern Ideology
This article explores how drone warfare reshapes political ideologies, military labor, operator psychology, and ethical responsibility. It examines risk, symbolic identity, AI autonomy, and the evolving role of soldiers in modern conflict.
Donald Trump’s Treatment of the Press
Donald Trump's verbal attacks on the press, including "piggy" and "loser," are analyzed through political psychology as "antagonistic dominance." Discover how his language breaks presidential norms, uses humiliation to delegitimize accountability, and poses an institutional danger to democratic health.
A Political Psychology Student's Guide to Satire: Because Irony is for Amateurs, and Nuance is a Trap
Political psychology student? Learn why satire fails to change minds. This witty guide uses the Colbert Report study to explain motivated reasoning and how audience ideology reinforces, rather than challenges, political bias.
From Coventry to New York: How Progressive Muslim Leaders Are Reframing Faith and Socialism
Zarah Sultana (MP) and Zohran Mamdani (NYC Mayor-elect): two young Muslim leaders combining Islamic ethics and socialist principles. Discover how they're fighting inequality, confronting Islamophobia, and redefining the politics of care on a global scale.
The Cost of Courage: The Psychological Toll of Hate in Modern British Politics
Explore the relentless Islamophobic and misogynistic abuse targeting young Muslim MP Zarah Sultana. This analysis details the psychological cost of constant threats, the normalisation of hate in public life, and how resilience acts as resistance for minority women challenging the status quo in UK politics.
The Double Bind of Diversity: When Representation Meets Misogyny and Islamophobia
Explore the double bind facing Zarah Sultana, Britain's youngest Muslim MP. Her visibility brings both celebration and intense misogynistic and Islamophobic abuse.
You Won’t Break My Soul: Resilience, Identity, and Political Survival
A deep dive into MP Zarah Sultana's resilience, identity, and moral purpose as she navigates hostility, racism, and political survival in Westminster.
The Making of a Moral Politician: How Zarah Sultana’s Values Were Forged by Inequality
Explore how Zarah Sultana's political fire was forged in the reality of Birmingham's inequality. Her journey from student debt to moral conviction in Westminster.
Freedom Recast as Loyalty: The Psychology of Britain’s Anti-Boycott Bill
A political-psychological critique of the UK’s anti-boycott bill exposing its authoritarian mindset, moral control, and threat to democratic conscience.