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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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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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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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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