In the three months since Internet monopoly Google announced plans to keep users from accessing “fake news,” the global traffic rankings of a broad range of left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights organizations have fallen significantly.
On April 25, 2017, Google announced that it had implemented changes to its search...
A neo nazi sympathising group is targeting Portlanders in an attempt to spread their lies and hate. The police have been notified and a meeting has been arranged. One resident has responded: 'We're on the housing list. First. I wouldn't mind waiting a little bit longer so a...
According to Parliament’s register of interests, Richard Drax was one 72 MPs who voted against the amendment who themselves are landlords and who derive an income over £10000 from a property. He was one of 312 Conservative MP's who voted against a Labour amendment.Teresa Pearce, the then shadow housing...
People of Weymouth and Portland. Today I was called out to clean up a drug den on the Rodwell trail. I have never seen anything so bad and in such a lovely spot. Please stick to the footpath only and make sure your kids aren't playing in the trees...
Copy-editors at Newsquest’s Weymouth subbing hub are facing redundancy as the regional publisher looks to stop all copy-editing at the Dorset office by the end of June this year. In a letter to staff, regional production manager Carl Blackmore said 17 full time equivalent staff are at risk of...
If you genuinely desire to understand the topic then this debate is a must watch and then hopefully the invocation of discussion/debate.
'In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Sir Paul Collier, the former head of Development Research at the World Bank, author of Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism, and professor...
It can seem glib to compare the current era to the 1930s. There are parallels, with the rise of nationalism and the free press under attack, but we are a long way away from Nazi-style totalitarianism returning to the West.
Nonetheless today’s journalists can learn much from the way our predecessors...
Let's talk Smart Meters. The campaign has started in earnest, both the Energy Companies and the Government want us to have these nasty little devices, all of us, in our homes, factories and offices.
All the hype and propaganda is being rolled out about the benefits to all of us,...
At a Council 'Walk Through' at the old Mount Pleasant Avenue South Home for the Elderly today.Eighteen houses are going to be built on this site both detached and semi detached. My mother was Officer in Charge of Mount Pleasant Nursing Home. Many people have had family members...
In late 2014 the Dorset Echo published some shockingly lazy journalism on the death of a Weymouth resident. Paul Bush died on a stag weekend in Budapest – see the piece here. There was an outcry from the public at large against the paper because rather than doorstep friends...
