Why “David vs Goliath” Framing Is Not Enough By Steve ConleyAcademy of Life Planning When governments speak about access to justice, they often reach for a familiar story. David versus Goliath.Ordinary people versus powerful institutions.The little person finally getting their day in court. The government’s decision to reverse the impact of the PACCAR judgment has … Continue reading Litigation Funding, Access to Justice, and the Risk of a False Binary
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When Algorithms Replace Empathy: The Human Cost of Automated Banking
By Steve Conley, Academy of Life Planning & Get SAFE On Christmas Day, a man received a text message from Lloyds Bank demanding repayment of a loan.He had lost his job during the pandemic, was living in a friend’s spare room, and doing his best to hold his life together. The message arrived just before … Continue reading When Algorithms Replace Empathy: The Human Cost of Automated Banking
When Justice Nearly Failed: How Get SAFE Helped a Family Find Peace Before Christmas
There are moments when the human cost of financial exploitation becomes painfully visible — moments when the system designed to protect us instead threatens to destroy us. This is the story of an elderly couple we’ll call D & A, who came within days of losing not only their home, but possibly their lives. A … Continue reading When Justice Nearly Failed: How Get SAFE Helped a Family Find Peace Before Christmas
Inside the Slaughterhouse: What Structural Untrustworthiness Feels Like
Structural untrustworthiness is not built from villains.It’s built from fear, ambition, and obedience — woven into a system that rewards the wrong instincts and punishes the right ones. Within such a structure, people don’t set out to destroy lives.They drift into doing so, one rationalisation at a time. 🩸 The Anatomy of Structural Untrustworthiness 1. … Continue reading Inside the Slaughterhouse: What Structural Untrustworthiness Feels Like
After the Applause
By the Academy of Life Planning There’s a special kind of moment when a career completes its circle.The firm is thriving, the numbers have aligned, and the offer on the table feels almost poetic — a multiple of recurring revenue that quantifies years of care and craft. You sign the agreement. Messages flood in — … Continue reading After the Applause
Crash Bank Wallop — And How to Get SAFE
A movement for truth, healing and justice is rising. This week, something powerful happened. A community came together — victims, whistleblowers, reformers, life planners, and citizen investigators — to honour the legacy of the late Paul Moore, reflect on the human impact of structural misconduct, and commit to a new level of action. The event, … Continue reading Crash Bank Wallop — And How to Get SAFE
The Hidden Credit Line Fraud: How Dishonest Bankers and Captured Regulators Engineered the Largest SME Asset Strip in Modern UK History
AoLP / Get SAFE Special Investigation For nearly two decades, thousands of UK and Irish business owners believed they had failed. They believed it was their fault their loans collapsed, their businesses went under, their homes were seized, and their families were shattered. They were told they “mismanaged risk”, “failed to plan”, or “didn’t understand … Continue reading The Hidden Credit Line Fraud: How Dishonest Bankers and Captured Regulators Engineered the Largest SME Asset Strip in Modern UK History
🌍 When Systems Fail, People Rise: How a Community of Truth-Seekers Is Rewriting the Future of Justice and Financial Planning
“You can’t defeat Goliath with your mouth shut.” - Paul Moore Those words, spoken during a Transparency Task Force gathering this week, captured the heart of a powerful realisation:the institutions meant to protect the public are no longer capable of doing so — but the public is learning to protect itself. This event was more … Continue reading 🌍 When Systems Fail, People Rise: How a Community of Truth-Seekers Is Rewriting the Future of Justice and Financial Planning
🕊️ The Betrayal of the Founders: How Finance Lost Its Soul
By Steve Conley – Academy of Life Planning Every age begins with visionaries who point humanity toward freedom — and ends with institutions that turn that freedom into a business model. It happened in religion. It happened in politics. And it has happened again in finance. The pattern is ancient and precise: a truth is … Continue reading 🕊️ The Betrayal of the Founders: How Finance Lost Its Soul
🧭 When Journalism Defends Exploiters: Understanding the Psychology of Gaslighting Whistleblowers
By Steve Conley, Academy of Life Planning Every system protects itself. When someone dares to speak truth to power — particularly in a profit-driven industry — the first instinct of that system isn’t to listen; it’s to defend. We’ve seen this pattern repeat across finance, politics, and media: those who expose wrongdoing are reframed as … Continue reading 🧭 When Journalism Defends Exploiters: Understanding the Psychology of Gaslighting Whistleblowers
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