The Swansea Planning Committee decided against Biffa’s planning proposal of a new waste incinerator in Llansamlet today. The plans were rejected unanimously by the Council, who now have the task of finding alternative disposal for the 21,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste, currently going to landfill in Merhyr Tydfil, that the incinerator was going to burn. […]
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Education, Environment, Politics
15th April marks the beginning of two weeks of International Climate Emergency Activism. A large and fast-growing number of people are now prepared to take part in climate activism, to go on school strikes, to directly confront authority that isn’t on message. Cities and Towns across the UK have been making the demand […]
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The first meeting of the Swansea Branch of Extinction Rebellion (XR) was held at the Environment Centre SA1 on Saturday 1st December. Thirty eight motivated people attended the meeting, which pleased the organisers. After the organised activities there was a lively discussion about what actions to take. One attendee stated she had left her community duties […]
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Ethics, News, Opinion, Politics
You’d have to be living under a rock not to have noticed the slew of propaganda manufacturing anti-semitism through accusations to ‘get’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Everything he has said in the past is up for scrutiny, and a speech he made in January 2013 at the Britain’s Legacy in Palestine Conference is now being […]
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Ethics, Health, Opinion, Politics
Part 2 looked at how one Mindfulness expert, Richard Byng, claims as a GP to want to reduce stigma associated with mental health, while creating fake-diagnoses of strangers. Part 3 of ANM’s look at the politics of stress, explores how effective systems of checks and balances are in addressing professionals’ use of position to persecute […]
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Ethics, Health, Opinion, Politics
Part 1 of ANM’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 series looked at the ‘stress’ crisis in the context of political events. Part 2 takes a closer look at the touchy feely interface of modern mindfulness psychiatry, and see how the evidence for mindfulness over stigma stacks up against the duty of Government not to cause stress to […]
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Ethics, Health, Opinion, Politics
For Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 ANM explores stress, and its relationship to a bubbling political crisis. Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – Who’s Pushing Them In The Mental Health Foundation published their study into stress this week. A massive 74% of 4,619 respondents said that in the past year they have felt “so […]
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“Narrative is everything” was the central message of Lord Carlile’s inaugural lecture as an Honorary Professor of Swansea University (pictured above) on 21st March. The talk, entitled “Counter–Extremism and Counter-Terrorism – Are They the Same?” was delivered to a packed room of students, lecturers and University grandees. We attended as researchers of the connections between different […]
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Feminism thrives on constant challenge. One of mine came late last year when I got trolled by yet another supposed feminist on Twitter. Did she really mean to troll me? She wasn’t very good at it, believe me I know, because I’ve been trolled by the best. The Trouble with After-Cults I felt a […]
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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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