CLEAR has published a revised and updated version 2.0 of its plan for the regulation of cannabis in Britain. This is based on the 2011 study ‘Taxing the UK Cannabis Market’ which CLEAR commissioned from the Independent Drug Monitoring Unit (IDMU). Peter Reynolds, president and elected leader of CLEAR, said: “We...
The concept of reality in philosophy clashes with the concept of reality in psychiatry. Immanuel Kant proposed that: “Everything intuited or perceived in space and time, and therefore all objects of a possible experience, are nothing but phenomenal appearances, that is, mere representations have no independent, self-subsistent existence...
On Friday 27th September, the Media School at Bournemouth University organised a debate regarding the subject matter of ‘Why politics matters’. There was a vast and varied turnout, ranging from a local 6thform to the South East Dorset Green Party to members of the public. The afternoon took place...
We rose early and breakfasted well as we anticipated the day ahead. The targets had been well defined, plans drawn up with military precision and we were off. The first action involved a picket and communications blockade by a powerful alliance of unionists and activists from Bristol General Membership Branch of the...
The Labour Party last weekend selected Simon Bowkett as their parliamentary candidate in South Dorset. Chief Executive of Exeter Council for Voluntary Service and former councillor for Littlemoor in Weymouth, Simon was selected by a packed room of Labour Party members as the person charged with the task of...
On Sunday the 21st July under the Martyrs' Tree in Tolpuddle, 25 people from the two counties met to form the Wilts and Dorset People's Assembly. A few of us had met in London at the national event and I organised the gathering with a Facebook Page and emailing...
There comes a time in one’s life when one should question everything. I say this because unless our lives are meant to be based on paper mache foundations then it is essential to look further than the grime around the toilet basin. Talking of which the ‘Harrow boy on...
In the autumn/winter of 1978/9 I was a 24 year old office worker in the now defunct occupation of telegraph clerk. I worked in Central London and living in Kent. I had recently returned to civilian life after 3 uneventful years in the army and wasn’t particularly interested in...
Thank you to James Tourgout of Dorset Echo for calling attention to the consultation on whether elections to Weymouth and Portland Borough council will change from 'election by thirds' to electing all councillors at one time every four years (https://www.dorsetforyou.com/all-out-elections). Given the fact that WPBC does not have the...
“Terminally slow (and bad) service from the bone idle bitches at Costa Dorchester today, they all need a good beating.” Facebook - the domain where people say what they don't mean to those who they choose to see what they don't mean. Apparently! It tends to be family, friends and...
