I suppose that sounds hypocritical because you’ve got women’s breasts being shown in certain newspapers

I suppose that sounds hypocritical because you’ve got women’s breasts being shown in certain newspapers. But I think it can lead on to other things, like the baby being sick in a restaurant or the nappy needing changing. If women are discreet, you shouldn’t need to set aside special places for them.Lynda Fryatt, 42, legal secretaryI don’t want to see women breast-feeding in public. It gives them ideas.Derek Moore, 28, bicycle courierI think it’s stupid to have a hang-up about it. Not enough women do it because they’re frightened or because other people get embarrassed. And there are some men who would be watching in a nasty sort of way.

But I think women find it difficult because of male attitudes Men sexualise the female body. After all, another woman wouldn’t be offended by it.
Jo Smith, 74, retiredI don’t think women should be seen doing it I would never want to expose my breasts in public It’s not right They must be exhibitionists if they want to do that. I don’t see why women can’t arrange to feed before or after they go out Infants don’t die in an hour or two if they’re not fed And in an emergency there’s always the bottle I think some women like people to see that they’re mothers But it must embarrass the men. Michael Smail, 27, graphic designer

Anybody who thinks that breastfeeding in public is offensive is completely sad and hypocritical It’s just a bodily function A bit of discretion may be called for. Paranoia affects not just the patients of Broadmoor; those of us who feel our office colleagues are out to get us or that our darkest secrets are about to be revealed can be victims too.. “How very worrying!” – though inside I was wondering when the men in white coats were coming to get him.To my horror, he was killed by a hired assassin the following month.This is a rare case; all too often the fantasies of paranoics are the result of their own tormented reality.

He talked persistently about people following him, about contracts out for his death, about mysterious phone-calls “Oh dear me,” I said, kindly. Indeed, the Cold War is considered by some as the politics of paranoia.I once spent an evening in the company of a dissident refugee from a country in the eastern bloc. Hitler managed to tap into the paranoia of a whole generation, as did McCarthy with his witch-hunts, and the murderously paranoid Stalin who induced paranoia into the whole of Russia. But the activities of such gifted paranoics become truly frightening when their paranoia invades a whole society. Many novelists channel their fantasies into elaborate plots of fear and intrigue, rather than sit at home paralysed by those fears. It requires anticipation, imagination, empathy and often quite sophisticated inferences and second- guessing. Paranoid people are often highly intelligent and can rise to high places in our society.”Private detectives and social security fraud investigators use their cunning and empathy to make a decent living.

“It was like a gauntlet of knives every day as I walked the streets,” he says.While paranoia, even of the mildest kind, can cause torture for the people suffering it, paranoics, amazingly, have their plus points .”Paranoia is quite a sophisticated mental process, maybe unique to humans,” explains Dr Chadwick “It is not at all a sign of stupidity. He even misheard someone saying “pieces of chewing gum” as “Peter Chadwick”. It started with a few people finding out about a part of his life that caused him excessive and needless shame, and from the knowledge that a few people were talking about him, he came to believe there was an organisation out to discredit, destroy and humiliate him Everything around him confirmed his worst fears. “Random pieces of information coalesce in your mind into a different model of reality,” says Dr Chadwick.He himself suffered a paranoid breakdown. Headlines in newspapers speak directly to them; the labels of cans in supermarkets spell out special messages; anyone staring at them, even absent-mindedly, becomes the agent of a malign force.

“So a lot of paranoid people are extremely superstitious, they often have interests in all kinds of occult ideas, ouija boards, pendulums and so on.”Paranoics are on the constant lookout for confirmatory evidence of their fears. MI5 is a common focus, along with the KGB, television, computers or radios. Paranoics often believe spies have planted listening devices in their flats or that they’ve been singled out by agents of a foreign power. “Anything that is strangely powerful of a very transcending kind tends to attract their interest.” says Dr Chadwick.