It’s beyond astonishing that the government views benefits as a cost cutting exercise. The Tories are ideologically opposed to social security and so they have made the benefits system as punitive and dismal as possible, treating being poor, out of work, sick or disabled as moral failings.
The world of...
I was at a Labour Party meeting recently and was appalled in a debate to be told that all Brexiters are ‘thick bigoted bastards’. Even as someone on the fence over Brexit myself, I cannot countenance such bigotry. Let me look at the idea in some depth.
Bigoted bastards
‘Brexiters are...
Today, 21 January 2019, Dorset Police has launched the next phase of their campaign to raise awareness of dangerous drug networks – known as “county lines” – and how members of the public can help spot the signs of criminal exploitation happening in our communities.
Superintendent Caroline Naughton explains: “The...
A man has been jailed for causing death by dangerous driving after a collision near Weymouth.
John Joe Darch, 25 and of Ranelagh Road in Weymouth, was found guilty by a jury at Bournemouth Crown Court on Monday 27 November 2018.
He was sentenced today, Monday 21 January 2019, to seven...
Just one day after her nonagenarian husband could have killed 2 women and a baby with his dangerous driving, our nonagenarian Queen takes to the road in a vehicle weighing several tons and flouting the law by not wearing a seatbelt. They’d be hard pressed to show more contempt.
Nicola...
The gap between what Brexit promised and what the Government can deliver is finally obvious to everyone. Westminster is in chaos. Hard line Brexiters have rejected Brexit, they promise to renegotiate without having secured any agreement from Brussels to bring to the table. They don't care, they want a...
Unbelievable! Actually no it wasn't. It is normal. It is a democratic deficit run by ignorant, arrogant powerful people to belittle and embarrass. Fiona Bruce is just another white middle class puppet presenting a white middle class programme on a mostly white middle class broadcaster. The experience of Question...
Growing interest in Dorset’s fledgling grass-roots political independent movement, All for Dorset, has prompted the group to stage its first public meeting later this month.
The event will take place at the Colliton Club, Dorchester on Thursday 24 January, opening at 7.30pm, and will enable people to find out more...
Celebrating their 10th Anniversary
THE SOUTH (featuring members of The Beautiful South) play LYME REGIS – Marine Theatre on Friday 22nd March!
To celebrate their 10th year anniversary and 30 years since The Beautiful South released ‘Song For Whoever’, The South are back this Spring, with a March 2019 - UK Tour playing shows...
A large number of cyclists oppose funding of bike paths, because they feel the money could be better spent elsewhere, like improving roads and educating the public on sharing the road. One very common argument is that building bike paths convinces cars that you don't belong on the road,...
