I interviewed the Playwright Lee Hall about the uneasy relationship between the working class and art, how we can still produce art outside of commerce and fiscal motives, and if we are prepared to respond to the political and cultural assault from the Coalition government. JONNY GORDON-FARLEIGH: Your...
What is going on? Of what are we the half-fascinated, half-devastated witnesses? The continuation, at all costs, of a weary world? A salutary crisis of that world, racked by its victorious expansion? The end of that world? The advent of a different world? What is happening to us in...
Bournemouth Echo article
Trading Standards advice . . . TRADING Standards have given advice to customers who paid money to Bayside Festival and Mainsail. Dorset Trading Standards manager Ivan Hancock said once a limited company has ceased trading and has gone into liquidation, it was ‘always unlikely that customers would be successful...
Recent evidence shows that a remarkable transformation in African agriculture is underway through a relatively quiet and very Green revolution. All too often, images of drought and hunger stalk the continent. Despite the fact that agriculture accounts for 65% of full-time employment in Africa and provides a livelihood for...
Slavery, is supposedly a condition that any right minded person would oppose. Most people and dictionaries define it as the oppression and suppression of a persons liberty whilst forcing them in to work. However, another defintion exists as defined by business, industrial relations & Human Resources teams: 'work done...
Early this morning two figures in chemical protection suits, tanks on their backs, spray lances in hand, were giving the white horse its final grooming before the Olympics. Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries ever considered on the Dorset coast is about to be solved – will anyone turn...
Two people have been found dead in a car buried under a pile of earth near a partly-collapsed tunnel in Dorset. The man and woman were discovered in the car near the Beaminster Tunnel on Monday evening... BBC article
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/07/long-slow-death-innocence
Peter Reynolds from Weymouth is leader of the political party Cannabis Law Reform Alliance (CLEAR). The following is an interview with Peter in which he was asked, amongst others, about CLEAR's aims; why ending prohibition is beneficial both universally and to the people of Dorset and why he believes health care...
