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For better or worse, many people are addicted to a nerve toxin (nicotine) in a weed (tobacco) grown commercially in the Americas and Africa. A new solution has emerged that allows smokers to reduce the amount of poisons entering their lungs and reduce the ill effects of smoking a...

Follow the Money

The United Kingdom is roughly 93 thousand square miles of magnificent loveliness. Unfortunately & despite Britain's magnificent loveliness leading #Brexiteers are unwilling to put their money where their mouths are & pay their taxes. Which is of course what #Brexit is all about What, you didn't know? In 2013 David Cameron wrote a...
If this very brief clip is left on repeat in a very short time we will join this lady in her marbles less world. It is the kind of white noise that reflects the madness of millions in this country. To vote for someone who is untrustworthy. Who one CANNOT...
In 2011, I wrote my thoughts regarding the coming of the 2012 Olympics to Portland. 3 years on and two years after the event, perhaps I was right? You be the judge. With less than 1 year to go until the Olympics Sailing Events start here in Portland, one...

UNITE AGAINST HOTHOUSE EARTH!

The much loved naturalist and TV presenter Sir David Attenborough is not normally renowned for exaggeration. Yet at last December’s UN Conference in Poland he said "If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon." Hold...
I again caution that in my estimation (and experience) the current campaign of incitement to hatred against Jeremy Corbyn has reached serious perhaps dangerous proportions. No-one in the state apparatus should underestimate the grave consequences should any harm befall him. George Galloway
BCP Cllr Lawton - that you condemn BCP council tax harmonising proposals as "morally indefensible" is off the richter scale. Cllr Laughton comments 13th June. You want to throw morality in the mix, citing "poorest residents" being hit hardest by council tax changes, when you are the party from central...
Whatever one may think of the leaders of the main political parties their initial responses at this time (although driven by PR) are to think of those who may be hurt or worse. No matter the level of sincerity, they reach out. Then there is Gerard Batten the leader of...
Legacy media is not offering anything new: intellectual regression, increased privatisation, reduced grant funding, and less editorial freedom. Abla Kandalaft, a Lebanese journalist, and founder of Mydylarama, picked up on this and took action. Her work in film curation is changing the way British cinema audiences connect with immigrant narratives...

War crimes in Gaza

Dear Mr Drax,I pay my taxes, amongst other things, to provide effective armed forces able, if necessary, to project power to wherever it is needed in the world.One of its functions must be in the gravest of circumstances, when tyranny reigns and innocent men, women and children are being...