Suicides in the Welsh Valleys

This important article, pertinent to this month's upcoming Saxon Messenger editorial, was found nowhere online, so we take the liberty to reproduce it here.

ISSUE 4 - 2011 - UK COLUMN – Page 24

Suicides In The Welsh Valleys: A Cry For Help From Our Young People Or Something Dark At Work In Our Society? Understanding Is The First Step To A Solution.

by Brian Gerrish

Some two years ago national media and press reports high­ lighted a spate of suicides in South Wales, mostly in the area of Bridgend and Rhondda. Principally teenagers and young people in their twenties, a few victims were in their mid forties and early fifties. The deaths came in clusters, sometimes amongst young people closely related or connected with each other, and at times amongst individuals in the same area.

A telling sign that something unusual is at work, is the fact that the majority of victims hanged themselves. This is generally at odds with national statistics where hanging is the preferred method of men and boys, and women and girls choose an overdose or other method.

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Starting in early 2007, the numbers soon passed double figures, and the suicides rapidly raised media attention. with reports generating much speculation on the causes. This in turn caused some anger at the press - a few parents accused the media of "glamorising ways of taking one's life to young people", whilst the MP for the Bridgend area said that the media were "now part of the problem." Apparently as a result of such criticism the media and press were encouraged to scale back reports so as to calm emotions and to help stop 'copycat' suicides.

Sweden's No-Go Zones Not Safe for Cops or Cameras

The CBS News 60 Minutes crew is about to enter a neighborhood in Sweden which is actually a Somali squatter colony. The cameraman is run over by a car. They call the police, but the police won't escort the crew through neighborhood, telling them they are better off without them.

The Bank of England Charters The Cause of Our Social Distress - Thomas W. Huskinson 1912

PREFACE

1912 - P.S. King & Son - Orchard House Westminister

A CAREFUL watch on the events of a quarter of a century has convinced me that the vicious social developments of the nineteenth century were abnormal and were due to an artificial, and therefore removable, cause.  That the cause is deep, insidious and subtle goes without saying:  had it been obvious it would have been easily discovered.

Nowhere have I seen a full text of Magna Charta, which so illuminates the times of the Normans, save in a translation of a French History of England;  the book came from Beckford’s library and was in a fisherman’s cottage.  It is curious that in a translation of a Dutch work have I discovered the best historical account of the Bank of England.  I refer to Bisschop’s Rise of the London Money Market.  But for that work I must have apologized for the slenderness of the early history in this book.  Bisschop’s work makes an apology unnecessary;  it is needless to multiply labour:  where he leaves off the argument of this book commences.

The Beasts that Dwell Among Us, Part 1

Once upon a time when aliens flooded a land and began raping the women, it was an act of war. The men of the land would rise up, the invaders were repelled or destroyed, and once the threat had been eliminated, repentance and a prayer for peace would again prevail in the hearts of the people.