If you have not read the work of Steven Lukes start now. Read the 'third dimension of power'. Read how we are not so much controlled by the spin attached to what they do tell us (although that is very important) but by everything that they choose not to...
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...
On #FatCatFriday it's important to remember the basis of Britain's economic model and why we owe more per capita and are the most unequal country in Europe.
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Douglas James
The South West TUC believes that the Government’s announcement on workers’ rights falls well short of what is needed to address insecurity and abuse in the region’s labour market.
Commenting on today’s (Monday) announcement on workers’ rights by the government, South West TUC Regional Secretary Nigel Costley said:
“Scrapping the agency worker loophole is...
Working women in Dorset will be feeling the pinch even more this Christmas having lost £43 a week in real terms since the crash of 2008.
The TUC South West has analysed figures from the Office of National Statistics to calculate the 13% fall in average pay.
Men in Dorset have seen a...
Parking tickets are a fairly common occurrence for UK drivers – in 2017, nearly 6 million drivers were given one.
Parking restrictions can often be hard to gauge, especially if you're in a rush or you're in an unfamiliar area – in a survey we conducted in 2017, more than 1...
Is this acceptable? Some say yes. Landed gentry telling the peasants what to think. Again!
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Douglas James
We shouldn't even be in this situation because the plan in front of the committee has so many valid planning policy related problems that it should not have been recommended for approval (NINE planning policy conflictions at the last count, read this if you want to know more https://drive.google.com/…/1x48mulbbpNLzHGLuVgoh7j2jZ…/view… ) .
The...
Tyres slashed on a hunt monitor's car yesterday whilst he was observing the Cattistock Hunt in Dorset.
This monitor has been doing this task for many many years...you could not wish to find a more peaceful man and yet this is what happens courtesy of a hunt who claim to...
Hard drug use in the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset is at epidemic levels. Thanks to our asinine drug laws, there is no radical, liberal approach to dealing with it.
At a community meeting on Tuesday entitled The War on Drugs has Failed in central Weymouth, some quite scary stories came...
