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A Victim of Corruption: Journeys of a Non-Criminal in Forensic Psychiatry
I was first admitted to St. Cadoc’s Hospital in 1997. After 3 years in the system and getting nowhere I started to really feel the corruption inherent in this place. I’ve always been amazed at just how lazy psychiatrists actually are and also find it incredible just how much their earnings are. They are (within… Continue reading
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Review: Prison Writing of Latin America by Joey Whitfield
Joey is a teacher of mine at MLANG in Cardiff University. This is his first book. It explores prison writing in Latin America and looks at abolitionism of the penal system and draws on some really rather delicate themes that expose the dark brutality of prisons in a developing continent where sometimes human rights can… Continue reading
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Review: Even Silence has an End – My six years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle – by Ingrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt was one of the most high profile political prisoners in the world during her captivity in the Colombian Jungle at the hands of the FARC-EP, Colombia’s left wing communist guerrillas. A brutal civil war has raged for the best part of 60 years in this Southern hemisphere country. The rural FARC occupy the… Continue reading
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Achats en Ligne
Il ne fait aucun doute que, alors que notre société entre dans le XXIe siècle, l’évolution des technologies l’accompagne. Les achats en ligne sont déjà une tendance croissante depuis quelques années. Comment la pandémie de Covid-19 a-t-elle affecté cette tendance? Dans cet essai, la question suivante sera posée: Pendant les confinements successifs, on a pu… Continue reading
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Invasion of Privacy – Social Media and Internet Monitoring in Mental Hospitals
I’ve been in the harder end of the UK Mental Health System for 22.5 years now. In those years I’ve been noticing a more and more restrictive approach to the way in which prisoners inside are treated. With the rise of internet and mobile phone technology and the advent of such popular inventions such as… Continue reading
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Landlocked – Mental Health in the UK and the Prevention of International Travel, Translation and Foreign Language Education
On the Second of April 1997, at the point of my first contact with the Mental Health Act, I had my life’s dreams shattered. On that day, my parents had been persuaded to take me to see a psychiatrist at the local mental hospital, St Cadoc’s in Caerleon. I hadn’t wanted to attend the meeting… Continue reading
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Wez G – Narcocorridos – Volumen 2
Los narcocorridos son baladas populares mexicanas y latinoamericanas que cuentan historias de los bandidos que trabajan en la industria del narcotráfico. De los contrabandistas a los capos, estas aventuras llenas de diversión se retractan, en un estilo fluido, vibrante y son muy populares en las partes del mundo de las que salen. Aquí, yo, un… Continue reading
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Wez G – Vine Line – Episode 1
Vine Line is a new Wez G podcast featuring songs that I am regularly enjoying at home. It will be an eclectic accessible mix of pop, dance, rock and any other genre I can think to throw in there. Enjoy and please share and spread the love x Wez G :::Tracklist::: # Artist name Track… Continue reading
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Review: Happy Mondays – Excess All Areas – by Simon Spence
This is the third Simon Spence book that I have read. He is a very talented music journalist from Manchester with a taste for documenting, wild, stylish cultural movements that have emerged from the Madchester craziness. Excess All Areas covers perhaps the most successful and innovative band to have ridden the early acid house craze… Continue reading
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Review: Altered State – The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House – by Matthew Collin
I’ve already read a Matthew Collin book – This is Serbia Calling – so I was chuffed when I stumbled upon this work, a history of UK dance music culture. As a DJ and Promoter for 24 years I’m quite aware of a lot of the history of dance music in the UK. This book,… Continue reading
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