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Dorset Council needs to get out more

It started with an email from Dorset Council. I read the details while sipping my coffee, and I felt my spelling eye focussing on...

When silence becomes complicity

Good to see a tremendous turnout for the London protest on Wed 4th June, when protesters dressed in red surrounded Parliament, holding a huge...

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...

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Polo’s back in the saddle

Sally Cooper looks beyond 1980s Jilly Cooper to polo’s fast-paced, bruising but surprisingly inclusive world, with rare gender equality The recent wave of publicity for...

North Dorset’s forgotten Scallywags

They were farmers, labourers and tradesmen, but Dorset’s Auxiliary Units trained in silence to become Britain’s last, lethal line of defence, says CPRE’s Rupert...

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