It's the feeding frenzy of the New Year Sales. Whether or not most sales ever offer genuine savings we are faced with endlessly increasing choice which although it is something that we think we need it only serves to make us increasingly unhappy. We discuss evidence that the brain subconsciously synthesises its own happiness but only if it is given the opportunity with enough time to do so which choice robs it of. We reflect how choice or lack thereof is reflected in free speech, politics and religion and where as such what we think is our right is actually not helping us at all. We conclude that making the best of what you have as long as there are no deal breakers may be the best solution to being a slave of chasing the ultimate.

This is the time of year where we all take stock and ruefully review all the goals they set themselves and failed. Looking forwards to the New Year with renewed resolve we set new goals as resolutions yet research shows most of us have give up by the first two weeks coining the phrase Blue Monday. Goals along with political correctness are one of the disasters of Western Society. Why? Because they are illusionary needs and as such you chase them as if your life depends on it, so you suffer endless stress , sometimes giving up from fear if failure and if you succeed you often just have anticlimax then you need another goal. Topical talkology to the rescue. We explain the first thing is for us to be self aware and simply be ourselves. To help us do this we ask three simple questions at all times. Is this a need, is this a want, what is the bigger picture? Life is 99.9% the journey so that is what you have to enjoy. Set yourself realistic stages along your journey and always review your progress and how you feel. Enjoy the journey. We only get one.

Christmas used to be something much more special but as society disintegrates it is simply another commercial vehicle to make money out of us. In many cases Christmas just reminds us how lonely we are while at the same time encouraging is to further dietary excess and social media use. Perhaps Christmas time is a wake up call to remind us of some of the values of this religious festival which are family and community. We conclude that developing closer family and social ties in reality rather than in line, cutting down sugar, reducing the amount of illusionary needs in our lives doing exercise and having effective leadership and structure are all positive factors for our health and functioning with the opposite leading to illness and dysfunction. The principles of happiness are so simple we just need to the right leadership and the hold and apply the right values. It is our choice. That is the irony.

Is social media a con? In fact does it achieve the exact opposite of what it claims? Is it destroying our natural need to socialise for the sake of advertising revenue? We discuss how human's are the victims of manipulation by hugely complicated algorithms keeping us addicted to each social media interaction we have. Yet we are getting more depressed and women are self harming more and elections are being influenced. No human understands how these algorithms function and this is an early sign of how Artificial Intelligence will at worst destroy humans and at best tolerate them as laboratory substrates to oil the wheels of technology and profit. We discuss how to counteract this and the importance of structure and order and a common identity and conclude that all civilisations and organisations have a mathematically demonstrable shelf life and that ours is rapidly approaching it's sell by date unless we start returning to our core values of what makes us human and functional and happy. It's Christmas so why not arrange to physically meet your friends instead of messaging them so you can look into their eyes and tell them how much you appreciate them. Then feel the Oxytocin lift your mood lower your blood pressure and boost a sense of peace and harmony rather than earning Facebook execs their Christmas bonus at the cost of your health for that tiny dopamine hit.

Trump has a key strength that all entrepreneurs have. He is a doer. Amongst all the mistakes and bankruptcies there have been successes. But exactly because of this it makes him a very dangerous President unless he listens to his advisors. Triggering a third world war is not the same as bankrupting one company and setting up another. Justin Baldoni makes a very valid point that men need to be themselves and not feel they have to live up to macho expectations. He unfortunately pairs it with a ludicrous politically correct apology on behalf of all men to women for their behaviour. Much more importantly he should have continued the excellent first part of the talk by saying equally women need to be themselves and then give a nod of understanding that men and women are different and that each needs to play to their strengths. The secret for anyone is this and it's key to good people management as well as placing players in a football team. How far along the road of playing to one's strengths should one go? Fiercly drive until the end of life for ultimate fulfillment? What truely gives us piece mind? Is it not family friends and some form of meaningful activity ? Sparks fly in this discussion.

The Royal Family has just shown everyone how to deal with immigrants. They assimilate into their own culture and identity. Megan Markle has been made to convert to Protestantism as the Queen is head of the Church of England. She is expected to integrate into the Royal Family structure and culture thus maintaining identity and therefore unity. Anything less would only serve to weaken it. Politicians on the other hand are shackled by political correctness and worry about their voters and party funders and are doing the exact opposite with the country as a whole. Identity and the unity it brings is so powerful that even if it comes about by negative means it still an unstoppable force. By direct inference this shows how most foreign policy is hopelessly wrong and usually achieves the opposite effect to that intended. We prove how the Americans caused The Second World War and how the Germans lack of understanding of mirror neurones unified the English into an unstoppable force behind Churchill. It is also today the fundamental reason behind the rise of Muslim Extremism. Western anti Muslim rhetoric reminds Muslims to be more Muslim. How therefore do you deal with a threat? Ignore or annihilate and or strengthen your own identity. If you do what the West is doing which is provoke the threat and weaken your identity you will loose.

We interview a young professional couple and discuss their perceptions of the balance of power between the sexes and pressures at work. Women are being pressured to 'have it all' with no understanding whatsoever of natural biology and innate strengths which should always be played to if one is to seek and achieve self optimization. That's why more women are suffering stress and depression and there has been a 20% increase in self harm ok no the last 10 years.

Should prostitutuion be legalized? There is precedent in legalising illicit drugs in Norway and Portugal which has reduced the prison population and made the drug scene more healthy and regulated and helped those with mental and social vulnerabilities. We cast a worrisome eye on the fact that more women are having to seek the services of male escorts and discuss how this is more a sign of an increasingly unhealthy society in that men are natural hunters not women. Otherwise shouldn't prostitution be considered an honourable trade and a civic service?

We have a female guest today who gives us her perspective on this harassment media circus and reassures us that most women take full responsibility for setting boundaries which includes an understanding of their own boundaries if and when they have been poor so that they have regretted doing certain things, but there is no doubt some take advantage of cultural political correctness in the West for a transference of their own guilt into false accusations. Men and women are certainly not the same. Men hunt and women permit or not. Each are responsible to carrying out their roles effextively and ethically. We also discuss the military coup in Zimbabwe and ask whether dictatorship is the most effective way of leading people and reflect that the greatest leaders in history have either been dictators or had a tendency to be dictatorial and simply been in an environment which permitted their style at least for a short time. Eg Margaret Thatcher. Theresa May tried to achieve dictatorship like powers by calling another general election but failed. Trump's attempt at leading from the helm with executive orders has also hit the treacle of democracy. Sickly sweet may satisfy many but it's ultimately bad for you.

Who is responsible for Media (and social media) feeding frenzies and lynch mobs? Who is responsible for tax mitigation (as opposed to evasion) schemes. Who is responsible for the credit crunch? Can there be a common thread which could explain all these apparently diverse sets of circumstances? For sure. Human nature and the fact that government allows it through lack of clear and proper leadership. People are by their nature unruly as they are seekers of stimulation without realising that it is peace of mind they really need which comes from leadership with common goals and identity and boundaries for common good rather than individual deification which always a seductive harbinger self societal destruction.