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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Total Recall

Prime Minister, So you've blocked the vote on yet another of your pre-election promises, which would have permitted a petition of 10% or more of errant MPs' constituents to force a by-election.  Let's see if we can't figure out why that might be: •  Your Work and Pensions Secretary...

Excuse me Mr Farmer

The reality for an increasing number of dairy cattle now that small farms are finding it ever-more difficult to stay in business. 1500+ cows with a short life spent in concrete sheds until they can no longer produce calves or economic quantities of milk. And have you ever wondered...
The tragedy of a Tory victory is of course also reflective of, as one Professor stated, that too many in the nation are now so 'stupid and selfish' and cannot cope with complex explanations to complicated things. Brexit will take many years and is by no means guaranteed to even...

Lies, lies, lies

Prime Minister. So Osborne reckons that he's going to buy your Party a shedload of votes in 2015 by raising the minimum wage so that it regains its 2011 value does he?  Is his goal in life to eventually make sure that every one of the seven billion people...
Effective climate action is now so urgent that the free market cannot deliver it. This is the key claim in Naomi Klein's latest book, 'This Changes Everything: Capitalism v. the Climate', released on 16th Sept 2014. She points out something which I had not fully realised before, that from...
I think there has to be balance in reporting, considering the effect it has on families and in trying to get the message across to drivers that careless, reckless and fast driving has severe consequences.  Unfortunately it is not just the inconsiderate driver that is involved. Photos and video's...

Time To Move on

Its High Time for Dorset and Somerset local newspapers to move on from the case of Mark Doggrell and his GBH court case.  He was found not guilty by a court of Law.  But since this case has been reported through the newspapers , local rags show their lack...

The dumbing down of truth

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has announced its 2016 word of the year - "Post-truth": "Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief," apparently first used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American...
Sent To: Maria Miller; Cabinet Office Subject: Symonds Hi. I'd be interested to know what, exactly, BoZo's latest squeeze is to be paid £100,000pa in "allowances" for? The woman was sacked from Conservative HQ a few weeks ago for putting in dodgy expenses claims and now she's going to be given £100K of...