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Thursday, October 10, 2024
While this might sound like just a fandom post for Taylor Swift, it’s not. It’s a remark about how social media sways public opinion and how the patriarchy is still alive and well in American and western society today. If you’re not listening to Taylor, you cannot objectively claim a lack...
"In a piece in the Sunday’s Sunday Times called “It’s A Sick Joke : US Comedians Are Fearless – And Funnier Than Ours”, Jeremy Clarkson selectively quotes a sentence from my 45-minute 2009 about him, in which I said I hoped Richard Hammond was blinded and decapitated in a...
As the tale of Weymouth unwinds, we find ourselves in a darkly comedic tableau, where melancholy and humour hold a crooked mirror up to despair. This is a place where hope doesn’t so much spring eternal as it occasionally trips and falls face first into the gutter, only to...

An anti-fascist needs our help

A nod to anti-fascists everywhere, one of your own is in a challenging health situation and has been diagnosed with likely end-of-life issues with his lungs. I can tell you without going into it obviously he’s been STAUNCH in our area for many, many years. If anyone can get his...
Roll up! Roll up! It will be all over by Christmas, and you can come home to a hero's welcome. Remember that? It did not work out like that, though, did it? Most did not come home, and those who did never got over their physical and mental terrors....
Dorset Police is releasing footage of an attempted theft of a keyless car to raise awareness and help protect motorists. Offenders are using a device from outside a property to connect to a car key’s signal and trick the vehicle into thinking the key is nearby, meaning it will unlock...

Swimmers beware

Researchers have proposed that a buildup of fluid in the heart muscle may be a potentially fatal syndrome that might affect fit and healthy open-water swimmers, causing them to "drown from the inside." Swimming-induced pulmonary oedema, or SIPE, is a type of immersion pulmonary oedema that develops when swimmers' lungs...
In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital, where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Others were being treated by being placed on an extremely strict diet, which...
The body ages in different ways and at different rates, depending on lifestyle and genetic predisposition. Generally speaking, the most rapid aging process typically occurs during the twenties and thirties. This is the decade where a person’s body is most likely to experience the greatest amount of physical change...
Conservationist and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham says British supermarkets are ‘selling suffering’ in light of the very worst forms of suffering that chickens on British farms are put through by the meat industry. The TV personality made the comments as he launched a campaign to push for higher welfare standards...