Health, Politics

Grandiose Medical Connerie – How The GMC Devalues Mental Health

18 Jul , 2016  

The GMC failing to protect patients: Fridge Monkey wears badge saying "trust me I'm a doctor"

Those of you who have read ANM’s content on Low Dose Naltrexone, during and after the passage of the Access to Medical Treatments Act, will know that the GMC investigated a doctor, Thomas Gilhooly, who was supplying the cheap non-toxic and effective drug, and that the GMC made the Grandiose Medical Connerie of finding that he […]

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Ethics, Health, Politics

Getting Away with Social Murder

14 Jul , 2016  

A scold's bridle or 'brank' - torture instrument, now virtually applied to those exposing social murder

It is one year since Judge Anthony Seys-Llewellyn’s judgement in our Civil case against Andy Lewis and Melanie Byng, in which the Judge, having refused us relief, made a special point of awarding no damages to us to punish us for correctly identifying that we have been stalked and harassed for years. Instead of preventing them […]

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Education, Health, Politics

The Power of Small – Book Review: The LDN Book

25 May , 2016  

ANM The Power of Small - LDN capsules - low does naltrexone, a safe cheap non toxic immune booster

Editor Linda Elsegood’s harrowing personal story of illness and recovery provides the energetic springboard to rehabilitate Low Dose Naltrexone in “The LDN Book”. LDN is a modest, cheap drug, still much misunderstood and even maligned, and this explains the need for such a patient-led initiative, essentially to educate doctors, and qualifies my only potential criticism […]

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Politics

Election Rules Breach – No Disabled Parking May Have Skewed Ballot.

9 May , 2016  

A polling station with no disabled access in Brynmill Swansea

On Election Day 5th May 2016, Swansea resident Susie Jewell arrived at Brynmill polling station only to find that there was no disabled parking. “When I got inside and pointed it out, the  Officials said they’d already complained to the council about the parking problems that morning,” Susie told me. A visit to the location […]

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Politics

10 Signs You’ve Become An Accidental Dissident – World Press Freedom Day 2016

3 May , 2016  

ANM Press Freedom map showing UK press interference

THE PROBLEM Brits are rightly indignant when democracy is subverted to silence voices: especially when it happens abroad. In spite of the breakdown of boundaries in cyber-space, “elsewhere” is still generally where the UK acknowledges the existence of dissidents, as a readable signal that a state has become less democratic and cannot tolerate disagreement. While police and […]

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Ethics

A Candle In the Dark – Simon Singh, Free Speech and Human Rights

8 Feb , 2016  

Photo of candle burning - symbolising hope

It is a long time since we’ve used our right to free speech to publish about the backlash from our Steiner Human Rights activism. To cut a very long story short, the replacement of open debate with covert harassment by skeptics and humanists that started in 2011, eventually left us no choice but to relocate […]

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Education, Ethics, Health

Do Reconsider: Mental Health Services in Swansea

18 Dec , 2015  

protesters sing about education cuts outside Swansea Council

A stalwart group of objectors met, marched and sang in Swansea on Thursday evening in protest at the continuing saga of the Education Other Than At School (EOTAS) cutbacks. ANM has covered this fiasco since the beginning when it became clear that it was slice and dice time for services to Swansea’s most vulnerable children. Mobilisation […]

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Ethics, Health, Politics

Pathologise This: Neutralising Dissent

26 Oct , 2015  

image of witch being tortured

A few days ago, in the #SaatchiBill stream on Twitter, I saw this conversation: Sounds fairly conclusive, doesn’t it, but this conversation jogged my memory, and thanks to the permanent nature of Twitter’s archive, I was able to find this earlier mention of the problem from January: So whereas in January there were two docs known […]

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News

Swansea Marches Against Austerity

14 Jun , 2015  

Swansea was undeniably noisy against Austerity on Saturday, 13th of June 2015, with an impressive turnout prior to next week’s National demo in London.  

Education

Swansea Council’s savage cuts to EOTAS

28 May , 2015  

Protesters about education cuts outside Swansea Council

Striking Tutors and union officials, together with stake-holders, finally took to the street outside Swansea Council last week, to protest punishing cuts to Education Other Than at School services (EOTAS), and challenging  “plans” to cut the number of staff in the department by 45%, where the numbers of vulnerable children needing to use the service […]