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Michael Gove's agent assaults constituency member Douglas James
What is Peace if not an end to war and want?Peace is not Peace when your fellow countrymen are being deliberately targeted by vicious policy from our own government. Peace is not Peace when your fellow citizens are being victimised by unscrupulous politicians for their own right wing agenda’s....
A far-right politician has applauded the “strong and thorough” British press – claiming that European journalists are “sissies” by comparison. Dutch MP Geert Wilders complimented British reporters for not shying away from the real issues, while in the same sentence blasting his own country’s press for playing it safe. Speaking to...
No matter what your opinions of Trump or Clinton one thing is a fact. The one with the most votes lost and the one with the least votes won. Electoral college or not this is US democracy for you. The one that they spend hundreds of billions of dollars...
Boscombe, Bridport, Sherborne and Wimborne branches of Lloyds bank have been sold to the CO-OP bank. All customers will now become Co-op account holders. The CO-OP have also bought all Cheltenham & Gloucester branches including Bournemouth, Dorchester, Gillingham, Poole and Sherborne.  This follows the part nationalisation of Lloyds in 2009...
My name is Lauren Layfield, I work on The One Show at the BBC. I wonder if you can help me? We’re desperately after families, single mums or single people who are going to be affected by the bedroom tax. I wondered if you knew of anyone...
Thank you for welcoming me to JP Morgan here in Bournemouth. When you think about where to give a speech on culture and ethics and the future of British banking, the offices of one of the world’s largest American investment banks may seem like an odd choice of venue....
It’s one of the most memorable scenes in Apocalypse Now. Martin Sheen’s Green Beret captain is being briefed on his mission to find Col. Walter Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando. “He’s out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct,” a general tells...

Double Standards

This week, a British youth named Azhar Ahmed was found guilty of the crime of causing offence. Following the massacre of Afghans by, according to the eye witnesses, a group of US soldiers, the young Bradford man in question did what we all do occasionally and wrote a stupid...

Why Soldiers Are Not Heroes

Consider this: the army, like any organisation comprising hundreds of thousands of men and women, will contain almost as many different types as there are people. Just being a soldier doesn't make any of them heroes... You might need to sit down for this one. Ready? OK, here goes…...