TV’s news comedy show, Mock the Week, has a semi-regular and very funny segment involving Hugh Dennis and one of the other panelists. In this segment, the other panelist will read lines from a senior political figure while Hugh Dennis delivers his interpretation of what the politician really means....
For a couple of weeks there has been an expectation. People have been posting on social media to contact friends to make them aware that a renowned BBC programme is being recorded locally. Have they applied to become a member of the audience? This is the moment to ask a question to those...
The Tories’ complete contempt for ordinary people couldn’t have been more clearly demonstrated than it was in yesterday’s Westminster Hall debate on the onerous, ludicrously-unfair ‘bedroom tax’, which will impoverish millions of struggling people for daring to have a spare bedroom, by deducting benefits. This includes many people whose...
Right-wing commentators always attack the NHS by saying that it mustn’t be treated as a “sacred cow”, like a “national religion”. The public don’t wish to see it as a business either. It is not surprising that the Royal College of Surgeons as a College are in favour of...
I wrote the other day about ’2020 vision: an Agenda for Transformation’, the Tories’ new proto-manifesto document, and the power-mania revealed in the Conservatives’ plan to make ministers above the law, answerable only to a Parliament they control and not to inconvenient legal considerations. Cloud cuckoo land? But that’s...
Hi. You did ask if I wanted to submit anything. Well this is just a whimsical thought, but use it if you wish. If not, well I suppose I was never meant to be a journalist, although that's what I wanted to be many moons ago! Gorilla WarfareThere's a...
Ordinary people (whatever that means) should be invited to share their stories and their rationale for adopting particular behaviour within the media. Dorset Eye welcomes any voice and to start us off Keith Lindsay talks to Philip Anderson about why he sends a letter to David Cameron every day and why party politics...
Dear Richard, You suggested in your speech in the House this evening that implementing the Leveson report would mean legislating on ethical standards for the press. This is nonsense and I find it difficult to believe you could advance such an idea in good faith. What Leveson recommends is...
With so many media articles and accounts about what the current Government is getting wrong, I can’t help but wonder if the Cabinet are guilty. Not only guilty as charged for their mistakes, but perhaps as importantly guilty of the same behaviour and attitude of many people when the...
'Equity members in Dorset have to travel to Bristol to get really involved with Union meetings and networking. This looks an interesting way to get involved as an performer in the nether regions of Dorset!' Jane McKell Equity is pioneering a new way of encouraging members to get involved...
