Category: Dorset Politics

Listening, learning and delivering

I hope you had a wonderful Easter. We didn’t quite get the glorious sunshine I might have hoped for, but at least it didn’t...

Under (water) pressure

As part of my volunteer Water Guardian duties, last weekend Mrs Jackson and I took part in the national Water Blitz citizen science survey...

Sea levels still don’t do politics

Here’s one to give climate deniers a laugh, and get them triumphantly exclaiming that they knew all along it was rubbish.Brace yourself. It’s been...

The five-year return policy

Calls for political change can be seductive, says Simon Hoare MP, but without proper scrutiny, we can risk years of buyers remorse As a society...

Sewage, funding, saving lives

Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance celebrated its 25th anniversary on 21st March. In that time, they have flown more than 29,000 missions and saved...

Nervous ticks: a call for coherence and compassion

Gary Jackson North Dorset Liberal Democrats This long-term sounding government is turning out to be just as short-term-thinking as its predecessor, and it’s got people on...

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Dorset Mounties

Riding into the fight against rural crime: Andrew Livingston spoke to one of Dorset’s new rural mounted volunteers You’ll struggle to find a village that...

Planning Your Trip to the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show: Where to Stay and What to See

There is something uniquely British about voluntarily spending a significant portion of your August weekend standing in a field in Motcombe, surrounded by pristine...