Opinion

2018 – Another Year of Hiding in Plain Sight?

31 Dec , 2017  

2018 - Another Year of Hiding in Plain Sight? Turn the lights up.

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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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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