Narcissistic abuse is a pattern of harmful behaviours used by one person to manipulate / exploit another. It usually consists of a four stage cycle: idealisation, devaluation, discard and hoover.

The Narcissistic abuse cycle: understanding how you became the victim

As a Christmas special, we are republishing the classic essay “I, Pencil”, by Leonard E. Read, which was first published in 1958. Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman described it as a ‘classic’ and explained, “None of the thousands of persons involved in producing the pencil performed his task because he wanted a pencil. Some among them…

I, Pencil