The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) 2017 conference on Cultic Dynamics and Radicalisation took place between 28th June and 1st July in Bordeaux. Delegates were warmly welcomed by former French Prime Minister Alain Juppé, now Mayor of Bordeaux. The conference was jointly hosted by ICSA, Info-Secte/Info-Cult of Montreal, and Société Française de Recherche et d’Analyse de […]
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A broad theme of World Press Freedom Day 2017 is the interrelation between freedom, justice and the rule of law. ANM continues in our commitment to exposing what we’ve come to call “over-thereism” on press freedom, i.e. threats to free-speech happen in other countries not in good old Blighty. That’s the kool-aid, but a sizeable and […]
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International Women’s Day 2017 – #beboldforchange This has been a hell of a year for women. We can now be legally beaten in Russia, sued by rapists in Arkansas. In Ohio, meanwhile, a woman will have to get permission of a man to abort a foetus.
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Brexit is coming, and it means Brexit and a cosy-up to Donald J Trump, but now there’s a tiny window where MPS could vote against triggering Article 50. So should they? Are you worth it? Ditching the EU was never going to be an easy matter since the British economy has become ever more tangled within it for over […]
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A storm erupted online at 10:33pm on the 25th of January (UK time) over Curzon Cinemas hiring out their cinema for a private screening of the controversial movie Vaxxed, which included a discussion afterwards with the disgraced Andrew Wakefield. Andy Lewis didn’t waste time writing on his Quackometer blog about the dangers of Cursor’s decision to show […]
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Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 consultation is over, and what a feast of misrepresentation, negative tropes and shouty non-sequiturs it has been for “The Press”. Anyone arguing in its favour is just naive, apparently.
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On International Human Rights Day 2016 ANM hosts an Open Letter from Freedom of Information (FOI) Campaigner Alan Dransfield, to the Lord Chancellor the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss. This begins ANM’s scrutiny of the use of vexatious process to subvert Human Rights that are deemed necessary in a democracy. __________________________________________________________________ OPEN LETTER […]
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Plucky little independent ANM has been dragged back to Court by Skeptics’ vexatious legal action, not with a genuine legal challenge to facts, but because when they have nothing to cover their perjury, supposed Skeptics’ Melanie Byng, and Dr Andrew Lewis, together with evidence-tampering lawyers Robert Dougans of Bryan Cave, and Jonathan Price of Doughty Street Chambers, […]
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Jeremy Corbyn came to Swansea on Friday evening after an afternoon rally in Methyr. As folk lined up round the LC2 leisure centre to listen to the controversial politician the media love to hate, the excitement was palpable. On the podium with Jeremy was his long time friend Tyrone O’Sullivan who famously led the initiative of […]
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Mr Carmarthenshire County Council, still singing “Indemnify Me” on April Fools.
1 Apr , 2017
Carmarthenshire County Council was originally formed on April Fools Day 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888. It was abolished on 31 March 1974, and begun anew, which shows beyond doubt that it is entirely possible for the Council to wipe the slate clean and begin again. There’s no sign of that though in the disgraceful matter […]
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