Séances lost their popularity with the invention of infrared photography when it became possible to see what mediums were doing in the dark. Nowadays… - Derren Brown

Animals can also be ‘hypnotised’. Flip a rabbit on its back, hold it firmly in position with its head back for a couple of minutes, and you’ll find it will become perfectly motionless and unresponsive, until you clap your hands loudly above its head.

We form many of our political opinions through reading papers and unconsciously absorbing the rhetoric of the journalists. Later, we spout the same opinions as our own. This parallels the way we respond to any authority and it’s something politicians understand well.

Every day when you leave your home you give away more than you could ever imagine about who you are and what you do.