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Saturday, December 14, 2024
In Dorset the gender pay gap is wider than the UK and women work for free until 17 March Women’s Pay Day – the day when the average woman starts getting paid compared to the average man – is Wednesday 6 March Women effectively work for free for...
The Guardian has published a major research study revealing that Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. The majority of the landowners are aristocrats, such as the Queen and the Duke of Buccleuch, who still own 30% of all UK land. Corporations were the second biggest...
  Equal Pay Day symbolises the day women stop being paid. Gender pay gap not closing fast enough, says TUC South West Today’s (Thursday) Equal Pay Day shows how much further we still need to go, says TUC South West. According to the latest government figures, the gender pay gap for...
My wife found this damage to our lounge carpet when she moved a heavy-based standard lamp to clean underneath. When we looked closely there were a dozen or so tiny white grubs chomping away. There were other areas of damage under the settee and under a pile of books. If...

Portman Hunt all over A30

Is this acceptable? Some say yes. Landed gentry telling the peasants what to think. Again!   https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/vb.1616430671910585/2525480714159569/?type=2&theater Douglas James
This is how it begins: with a theatrical attack on a vulnerable minority. It’s a Conservative tradition, during election campaigns, to vilify Romani Gypsies and Travellers: it tends to play well on the doorsteps of Middle England. But what the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, proposed last week is something else....
Come on this is a racist anti Muslim political party playing on the bigotry in the country to get votes. Penny Lane PLEASE SUPPORT US FOR JUST £2 A MONTH https://dorseteye.com/donate/
'Austerity for normal people and tax breaks for rich. So London areas such as Westminster undertake social cleansing , closing social housing and selling land for appartments to foreign money launderers. Weymouth and towns like it with cheap housing take from the capital in terms of vulnerable people. At...
Evidence from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which is advising ministers on the UK's response to the coronavirus pandemic, has been published by the government. It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that the UK could "turn the tide" against COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in 12...

Are there two Dorsets?

One is pictured by the tourist information at Visit Dorset: Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door and Lyme; thatched cottages; and cream teas with apple cake. Another is a hidden Dorset – a county of vast inequalities, with huge landed estates and inherited wealth alongside towns and villages in which thousands...