Dorset Eye has been sent a report Would Brexit Matter? The UK’s Voting Record in the Council and European Parliament in which academics have sought to identify the effect of UK politicians and how it would look without our presence. Below is a summary of the key areas that would be...
Fortnightly insight into the current state of the economy and how it relates to Dorset by Nigel F Jump, Chief Economist of Strategic Economics Ltd (a Dorset Company) and Visiting Professor in Economics at the Universities of Bath and Plymouth. See: www.strategiceconomics.co.uk There are three aspects to...
By 2020 Google and Facebook are expected to take 71 per cent of all the money spent in the UK on digital advertising, according to a report by analysts OC&C. (Press Gazette)
As a consequence our news and entertainment online could be a parochial shell of entirely dumbed down content...
Have been over the hills and far away for the last few weeks and apparently it has been sunny here. In some ways though it is wonderful and unsettling to be back. Beautiful coastline; a green and pleasant landscape; some of the pot holes have been filled and our local MP...
I’ve used these figures before, in a post I wrote some months ago in response to claims by Tory MP and apologist for the rich, Jacob Rees-Mogg. However, the claims have surfaced again as defenders of the poor, oppressed wealthy have rushed to rubbish Labour’s idea of a ‘jobs guarantee’...
We know that one thing means another so a friend has invited others to help him put together a dictionary for us to make sense of the 'language of power'. Double Speak Feel free to come up with others. (You can send to @markcurtis30 on twitter if you choose)...
One of the reasons citizen media has evolved in to such a formidable (but very likeable) beast is that it recognises that the corporate media leave stuff out they don't like or agree with. This results in bias and confusion amongst the public. This won't go away but it...
The past week has seen two cases of the establishment media falling to properly tackle a developing confluence of hard and far-right politics in the UK, with independent and alternative outlets left to pick up the pieces. Following Friday's conviction of Darren Osborne for his murderous terror attack on...
We welcome the establishment of the criminal investigation to run in tandem with the independent judicial public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. There are bereaved people and survivors and residents of tower blocks around the country with serious questions about how and why this disaster happened and who...
Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought.
To what extent do we decide? We tell ourselves we choose our own life course, but is this ever true? If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions...
