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Do voters need therapy?
Professor James Tilley asks to what extent our politics is now steeped in cognitive distortion?
In a poll last year, two thirds of people suggested that Britain’s exit from the EU was negatively affecting the nation’s mental health. But is that really about customs unions and widget regulations, or is it a more a product of how we think about politics? James Tilley, a professor of politics at Oxford, finds out how our distorted ways of thinking create emotional reactions to politics and how those emotions affect what we do politically.
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Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad.