Experience: Analysing Newsmakers

The halo effect, from Ed Miliband's street interview with Feroz Khan to Peter liking Andy Burnham and still disagreeing with him about beer at the football. Also why couples now stay married for 13 years before they divorce, Andy Carroll speaking out abou

The bystander effect, a week of AI doom from Trump's super intelligence to the Lavender kill lists, Burnham's first meeting with Trump, and the new right to two weeks' bereavement leave. Peter's tip: make the first move.

Two crypto billionaires give Reform UK 72 million pounds in two days, the assisted dying bill falls by sixteen votes, and the UK bans goods from illegal West Bank settlements. The Concept of the Week is motivated reasoning.

The Concept of the Week is the illusory truth effect, and the news supplies three demonstrations. The AfD takes Saxony-Anhalt three seats short of a majority, 96 per cent of A&E staff have faced violence at work, and ChatGPT invents a Victorian mercur

Peter retired and nobody threw him a party. The Concept of the Week is role exit, the psychology of leaving a role behind, and it turns out to explain most of the news this week. Keir Starmer stands down as an MP, Andy Burnham faces his first PMQs, and Fr