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Sunday, May 19, 2024
Working women in Dorset will be feeling the pinch even more this Christmas having lost £43 a week in real terms since the crash of 2008. The TUC South West has analysed figures from the Office of National Statistics to calculate the 13% fall in average pay. Men in Dorset have seen a...

Beware the Telephone Scam

I just had one of those very pleasant sounding Indian ladies ring our landline, concerned about my Microsoft computer, so i said to her " I have heard about this scam and I am reporting it to the police", and guess what, she hung up! Don't be taken in by...
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The pay gap between under-30s and over-30s in the South-West is now 25%, compared to 11.9% in 1998. The pay gap between young and older workers in the South West has increased by more than half in the last 20 years, according to a new analysis published today (Monday)...
Following a week long poll answered by just under 3000 Dorset Eye readers it appears that any re run of the referendum would lead to a similar result. Although not a national poll it does provide an interesting reflection of local feeling and the fact that the British public is...
Media Fund partner, Open Democracy reported last week that The London Evening Standard has struck a £3m deal to provide positive news coverage for 6 major corporations. The corporations include Google and Uber, whose ability to pay for such deals is enhanced by tax dodging and other questionable business practices. The...
This proposed new law would make us strangers in our own nation, by criminalising trespass. Every government of the past 30 years has promised freedom, and every government has taken it away. The general “freedom” they proclaim turns out to mean freedom for billionaires, the City of London, and the...
Over the last four months the Guardian newspaper has published a series of articles that have shown how the UK Vote Leave campaign and Donald Trump have used your social media data to win their respective votes. They used this data to send fake news to you, and made...

The Mind Hackers

Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought. To what extent do we decide? We tell ourselves we choose our own life course, but is this ever true? If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions...