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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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 British legal system is portrayed by many as a bastion of truth and justice. Unfortunately, that perception doesn’t reflect the reality others experience. Perhaps the most obvious recent example of injustice in the UK is Hillsborough: it took twenty seven years for the families of those who had been unlawfully killed to finally be […]
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2017 was a stupendous year for outing abusers hiding in plain sight. That’s the convenient trope to convince the masses that change is on the way, that corruption hiding in plain sight, à la Savile, will be uncovered, exposed, and dealt with. But of course that’s tosh because exposure is relative. When collateral damage is […]
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Angel Dusting is defined as a misleading marketing practice where a minuscule amount of an active ingredient is included in a product, an amount insufficient to give an measurable benefit. Not to be confused with the drug Angel Dust, which has a long history of making people forget themselves in a compliant, controllable reverie… But […]
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A private prosecution will be opened today against several Public Authorities at Lincoln Magistrates Court. The prosecution will be opened by citizen petitioner Alan Dransfield, a vociferous 67 year old Freedom of Information (FOI) campaigner from Boston Lincolnshire. Dransfield will “lay an information” in the court to prosecute alleged foreseeable harms caused by knowing fraud in […]
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