Category: Dorset Politics

Pay the farmers for … farming

My background, prior to entering politics, is in small-scale commercial rooftop solar. Not the 50MW utility-scale type project being proposed for near Bradford Abbas....

We are what (politics) we eat

“We are what we eat” and “our diet defines us”. If I take that metaphor and apply it to our political consumption for the...

Laughing through the irony

Laughter is definitely the best medicine, and with humorous news often in short supply these days, the Daily Mail lightened the mood for us...

Exclusive: Charles Church – plus Dorset’s biodiversity crisis | BV podcast

The BV has an exclusive interview with renowned equestrian painter Charles Church, and Jenny sits down with council leader Nick Ireland to discuss biodiversity,...

Expertise and experience at the helm

I was at the North Dorset election count in Blandford. As I finally left the sports hall around 5:30am, I congratulated the re-elected Conservative...

Ignored and underfunded: the FE sector crisis

One of the things that really energised me as a candidate during the general election campaign was education – yet it received scant wider...

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Bucked in the Yarn

Three small Somerset villages had a huge impact on global exploration and trade – Rachael Rowe talks to Professor Terry Stevens “Nothing much ever happened...
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Form and function … and food

Jennie Gilbert’s taste for great design makes for pottery that you really want to eat off. Fanny Charles talks to Chalke valley potter Jennie...

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