Category: Dorset Politics

It’s not left vs right – it’s truth vs lies

‘Divide and distract’ are tried-and-tested means of conquering opponents. Both are being heavily employed at present by powerful individuals hell-bent on making our world...

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...

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WINCANTON RACEDAY NEWS: ALEXEI ENTERS CHAMPION HURDLE RECKONING WITH KINGWELL SUCCESS

Saturday 14th February On a St Valentine’s Day card at Wincanton, it was ambition rather than romance in the air as Alexei powered his way...

The woman who talks to her loom

Debby Kirby’s loom has sung through Walford Mill for 40 years as she weaves her hand-dyed silk into luminous accessories and wall art You can...

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