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Adolescent Mental Health

by | 10th August 2024 | Articles, Social Issues | 0 Comments

Adolescence Painful, greasy, smelly, hormonal, angry are just a few of the names attributed to adolescents.  On one hand, some professionals, including social workers, forget the uphill struggles and peer pressures associated with teenager years. Some think they were...
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No Bad Days – Men, Masculinity and Mental Health

by | 6th July 2024 | Articles, Social Issues | 0 Comments

Jake Cox – Mental Health Advocate Jake (30) originally hails from Southeast London, but this working-class lad now considers St Mary’s Island in Chatham his new home. He moved there three years ago with his wife as he always wanted to live by the water. He was fed up...
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Shea Coffey – Trans Rights Activist

by | 11th May 2024 | Articles, LGBT, Social Issues | 0 Comments

I met with the delightful Shea in Rochester, and over tea and cake, we discussed recent events affecting trans people in the UK. As one of the first authors in the UK to publish a book about trans people in 2017, I am no stranger to trans issues. Since then, much...
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Racism in Medway

by | 3rd January 2024 | Articles, Social Issues | 0 Comments

Gillingham Football Club recently issued a lifetime ban to a young fan following a racist incident during a football match. This led me to wonder if such incidents were frequent or isolated in this geographical area of Kent, which has a population of 270,000 and is...
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The Persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslims Must Stop

by | 23rd December 2023 | Articles, Religion | 0 Comments

Considered heretical by orthodox Muslims, followers of the Ahmadiyya Movement suffer a life of persecution and vilification. Award-winning writer and Islam expert Declan Henry highlights their tragic story and calls for an end to their victimisation - written by...
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Wounded Heart

by | 9th October 2023 | Articles | 0 Comments

Why do you keep coming back? We are from different layers of the stratosphere, which makes us at odds of ever aligning. My soul craves yours, but my cry is met with indifference. Self-inflicted loneliness can be torture, but I love you and always have despite, at...
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To Be a Transman

by | 2nd October 2023 | Articles, LGBT, Social Issues | 0 Comments

The 2021 census (excluding Scotland) showed that 262,000 (0.5%) of the population declared their gender identity different to their birth gender. The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights estimates that at least one out of every fifteen people in Europe has a gender...
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Islam & Homosexuality – Asrar Rashid Podcast

by | 27th September 2023 | Articles, LGBT, Religion, Social Issues | 0 Comments

A Recent Podcast with Asrar Rashid on Islam & Homosexuality - please follow this LINK or copy and paste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpKBRIUXDGs Declan Henry is a creative non-fiction writer and comes from a distinguished academic background. He studied at two...
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Freemasonry

by | 25th September 2023 | Articles, Religion | 0 Comments

Freemasonry is often shrouded in mystery based on myths, misconceptions and hearsay with most people knowing hardly anything about its history or purpose.  Britain has over 200,000 members meeting in almost 7,000 Lodges. In Ireland’s 32 counties, there are around...
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Irish Travellers

by | 1st September 2022 | Articles, Social Issues | 0 Comments

‘Irish Traveller’ is a state-imposed term. The Traveller community instead refer to themselves as ‘Pavee’ or ‘Mincéir’, which are words from Shelta (otherwise called ‘Cant’ or ‘Gammon’), the Irish Traveller language. Travellers have been in Ireland since pre-Celtic...
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Freemasonry

by | 25th September 2023 | Articles, Religion | 0 Comments

Freemasonry is often shrouded in mystery based on myths, misconceptions and hearsay with most people knowing hardly anything about its history or purpose.  Britain has over 200,000 members meeting in almost 7,000 Lodges. In Ireland’s 32 counties, there are around...

An Introduction to Radical Islam

by | 10th March 2021 | Articles, Religion, Social Issues | 0 Comments

An Introduction to Radical Islam is a new booklet by Paigham Mustafa which challenges many traditional beliefs of Muslims by questioning several interpretations of the Quran which he believes are incorrect and have caused untold damage to Islam throughout the ages.  ...

Ramadan

by | 3rd April 2021 | Articles, Religion, Social Issues | 0 Comments

A delayed flight from Aberdeen to London resulted in me missing the last train home to Kent. Getting a taxi resulted in an unexpected conversation about Islam with the driver. Salman, a British-born Bengali, in his thirties, worked during the day in a professional...

Q&A – Declan Henry author of Voices of Modern-Islam

by | 3rd April 2021 | Articles, Religion, Social Issues | 0 Comments

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