The case against First Past The Post is well-established. It provides the bare minimum of democracy, is unrepresentative for the majority, and distorts the allocation of power. But how many people are aware of its costs in wasted public expenditure and excess taxes, its maintenance of spent ideologies and...
I see your doleful little head crowning through the doorway of the prison as you emerge, a free man now, the injustices against you overturned until your retrial. I see the nervous flicker of your eyes, your jeans a little looser now, your eyes a little darker. It’s been...
I’ve recently read on the internet about something called ‘cough CPR’. The article claimed that if I have a heart attack and then do this, it could save my life. Is it true?
Senior Cardiac Nurse Christopher Allen says:
The absolute priority when you think you or someone else is having...
Not all Jews are Israeli, not all Israelis are Jewish, not all Jews are Zionist, not all Zionists are Jewish, not all Jews are religious, not all Jews are secular, some Israeli Jews are Yekke, some are Sabra.
Can someone please help the BBC/Carlton Club news, Jewish Chronicle, The Likud,...
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
There is no doubting the evidence that those who use social... media as a platform of hate are in many cases also repeating it in their day to day lives. Whether this is via the corporate media and their assault on the vulnerable... or individual accounts in which people...
Two giant tortoises reported stolen from Kingston Maurward College have been located.
An appeal was issued after a total of four Sulcata tortoises were stolen from the college overnight between Wednesday 22 August and Thursday 23 August 2018.
Officers can now confirm that two of the tortoises – Blastoise and Jeffery...
The deadline is approaching to claim up to 30 hours free childcare from September and many Dorset families are at risk of missing out. Eligible parents of 3 and 4 year olds need to apply and get their eligibility code by 31 August in order to claim from September.
Most...
No right answer. Just food related or humour please.
Officers investigating a fatal collision in Weymouth are appealing for any witnesses to come forward.
At 10.05am yesterday, Wednesday 22 August 2018, Dorset Police received a report of a collision involving a red Citroen C4 Picasso and a pedestrian outside Weymouth Community Hospital in Melcombe Avenue.
The pedestrian, an 89-year-old local...
