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Sunday, October 6, 2024

“No.”

Voting Conservative is like voting for the school bully, that while he (or she) is ragging someone else, your arse is safe, but really you're just sweating, hoping to stay under his radar for another day. And, of course, part of appeasing the bully is picking on his victims,...
1) Representative Democracy is not really democracy A system whereby small numbers of people, in our case MPs, govern many millions of others, is not  democratic. The extent of our self-government is a mere cross in a box every four or five years. Sometimes as many people do not...
Last week a parliamentary candidate was censored and silenced at a hustings by Amber Rudd. Following the attack in London Theresa May once again blamed cyberspace as a safe space for terrorists to breed and a former Metropolitan Police Senior Investigating Officer, Peter Kirkham, stated on Sky News that...
We can spend months detailing why the Tories are incompetent, malicious secretions from a rapid dog's rectum and then find that they have saved us the bother. Douglas James
A Wareham resident has unfollowed Dorset Eye because she does not want to 'lend support to plebs'. In the 21st century it would be hoped that the young are being set a better example but it appears some in this wonderful county of ours are a few centuries behind....
Just for the moment, forget policies and even the general election, and let's look at humanity. It's been said many times, 'elections are not about personalities', and every time, they are wrong. If you want to experience a world devoid of personality and humanity and based solely on policy,...
David Davis your patronising smugness lead you down a cul-de-sac and waiting for you was a clever person and you could not escape. Pure art at its finest. Stick it on repeat... Douglas James
We invited readers to post their comments about local MP's. Although mostly negative there are also positives. With the election over this time next week over to you. Conor Burns Bournemoutn West Paul Nelson Burns - self serving 'snout in trough' debacle over the Navitas wind farm. Christopher Chope Christchurch Andy Dunne I've...
On 26th May the BBC reported - "Call to raise retirement age to at least 70" - and the first sentence of the article read, 'The retirement age should rise to at least 70 in rich countries by 2050 as life expectancy rises above 100, according to a new...

Strange Coincidences

A statistician will tell you to ignore any seemingly surprising event if the chance that it might happen at random is more than 1 in 20, that is 5%. A statistician will not get excited about an event unless its probability of happening at random is quite a lot...