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Digital ID cards? Let’s see the detail

With proposals resurfacing, MP Simon Hoare asks if it’s security theatre, a serious tool for immigration control – or another failed IT promise? As I...

Back to London with 760 questions

Parliament’s six-week Summer Recess is ending, and I’m returning to the routine of being in London for half the week. Although the sunny weather...

Reform the Local Plan

As someone who was born and raised in Dorset, reading through the recently released Local Plan was, quite frankly, deeply unsettling. The level of...

What if disruption is the only way?

What information should environmental campaigners make widely known? And how should they share it in order to achieve the large-scale societal and behavioural changes...

Promises are never enough

Simon Hoare MP admits past failings, and warns that if government and opposition don’t deliver, the vacuum will fuel populism and protest votes I cannot...

Silence in Sturminster as mayor quits after four months

As Dorset councillor Carole Jones warns that Sturminster has lost ‘a wealth of experience’, Rachael Rowe tries to understand what is happening at Sturminster...

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Chris Wald’s insider’s guide to Team Tizzard at Cheltenham

We have been so lucky to finally enjoy some spring-like weather over the last couple of weeks – it always comes as a welcome...

Spiced Pumpkin Cornbread

Meet our new food writer – Lizzie Crow is a familiar face at just about every food event in the county, better known to...

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