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Monthly Archives: March 2009

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Hold the presses – investigative journalism is not dead!

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by Anna Raccoon on March 30, 2009

Many readers have turned away from newspapers towards the Internet, the Internet in turn has spawned a reversal of the accepted procedure whereby news filtered from

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Is Jacqui Smith’s husband a secret Conservative?

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by Anna Raccoon on March 29, 2009 What other explanation can there be for his decision to download adult movies on pay-per-view cable TV, to be watched in Ms Smith’s ’second home’ in Redditch, and then allow his wife to …Continue reading →

Putting the boot in.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 27, 2009

Jacqui Smith’s heart must have beat a little faster this week, when news reached her of the advances in the science of Internet censorship made in Germany. 11 German detectives descended on the

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Torn Posters and Shredded Lives.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 27, 2009

This post is reproduced by kind permission of Astro at Jo Morais’s site. It is one of the most eloquent and poignant descriptions of the tremendous effort made by the people of Portugal to discover

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Excluded by inclusiveness.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 26, 2009

Yesterday, the Communities secretary unveiled the new counter-terrorism strategy, known as Contest 2, a commitment to challenge those who “reject parliamentary democracy, dismiss the rule of law and promote intolerance and discrimination on the

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Something to cheer your evening……..

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by Anna Raccoon on March 22, 2009

With thanks to Chatelaine.

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Life or Death?

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by Anna Raccoon on March 21, 2009

This building may look remarkably like a great cathedral, but there is no God inside, just a High Court Judge. Today, a couple known only as Mr and Mrs T, are planning to spend their final

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The Great Firewall of Australia.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 18, 2009

The Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy, has previously claimed that his proposed Internet censorship regime was focused on blocking ‘illegal sites’. Until now. At a Senate committee on Monday, Conroy

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Marching towards an imposed morality……..

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by Anna Raccoon on March 17, 2009

All law is imposed morality. Law is never neutral; it rewards certain behaviours and agreement with those values doesn’t make them any less of an imposed morality. Despite the fact that it stakes a high moral

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Whinging and bingeing…..

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by Anna Raccoon on March 16, 2009

During the past few days we have seen a Select Committee sit down with Max Mosley and Gerry McCann and discuss how the media has destroyed their lives by making gross and libellous accusations and

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The Beeb, Botnets, and Breaking the law.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 15, 2009

On Friday, the World Wide Web was offically 20 years old. The BBC celebrated its birthday by explaining the inner working of a ‘botnet’. A botnet is a robotic network. A series

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See You Jimmy……

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by Saul – Cub reporter on March 15, 2009

The most senior Labour Party official in Britain was caught up in a bizarre racism row last night after he was accused of insulting people who speak with a Scottish

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Huffiing over puffing…….spinning ‘a line’.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 15, 2009

Before I say a word, I must declare a ‘non-interest’; I have never had so much as a ‘puff’ of weed

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Would you buy a used car from this man?

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by Anna Raccoon on March 14, 2009

You may have to soon! The government is considering giving credits of 2,000 pounds to new-car buyers who turn in their old cars, The Times reported on Saturday. Business minister Peter Mandelson is looking closely

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Too little latitude.

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by Mara MacSeoinin on March 14, 2009

Google’s new people-tracking software, Latitude – charmingly pegged as a way to “keep tabs on someone special” – is receiving what has become today’s typical response of ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ and ‘grave concerns

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Veracious Vera………..do explain!

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by Anna Raccoon on March 12, 2009

Lord Ahmed who was jailed for 12 weeks for sending and receiving text messages while driving on the M1 has been released by the Court of Appeal. The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, made it clear his text messaging

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British Slag and the Decline of Cole.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 8, 2009


Ashley Cole needs his right to privacy and threatens the Sun newspaper just before being arrested for using abusive language!
The philandering husband of Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has threatened to sue the

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Drat Draco Malfoy!

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by Anna Raccoon on March 7, 2009

A plague on his disingenuous disguises.

Especially the one he adopted when he came to see my house. It’s in the nature of actors to act. It’s what they ‘do’. I shouldn’t be so surprised.

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All mouth and no knickers, the new ‘Kilt’ notes.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 7, 2009

Yesterday we spoke of David Mundell’s plan to force English shops to accept Scottish Banknotes. An earlier post by Gloria on the subject of quantitative easing asked whether the notes could be easily identified:

So, go

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French Letters going unread……..

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by Anna Raccoon on March 5, 2009

After the limp reception the droopy Draper received as spearhead of the governments penetration into Web 2.0 and the blogosphere, we get news of another flaccid attempt. The Department for Children, Schools and Families has

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Our Lord in Doncaster, continued. …….

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by Anna Raccoon on March 4, 2009

Lord Ahmed, the NuLabour peer sentenced to death a potential 18 days in an open prison after killing a man in a stationary car, whilst distracted by texting on his mobile, must

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10,000 Muslims and the Solicitor-General……..

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by Anna Raccoon on March 4, 2009

Lord Ahmed certainly has an army of supporters. Following my piece this morning on my blog that this mendacious government couldn’t possibly be thinking of reviewing his sentence, the Solicitor-General has kindly found time in

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Big Brother goes undercover……

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by Anna Raccoon on March 3, 2009

Late last night, after the House of Commons had virtually emptied, a vote was taken on on a new clause of the Political Parties and Elections Bill right at the end of the Report Stage, sneaked in

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The tax man is telling fairytales……..

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2009

The February edition of HMRC’s thrice-yearly “Employer Bulletin” normally contains a CD of software designed to help small firms deal with their tax obligations. There should be an employee database, tax calculators and automatic form generators. “Install Immediately”, the taxman’s

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The Calpol generation of ‘home alone’ kids.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2009

The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) made a surprise announcement last night. They have banned a range of children’s medicines from being administered to the under six’s.  

Amongst these products was Calpol Night, which contains a sedating antihistamine

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Prime Mentalist’s health records breached in database attack.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2009


A HACKER attack on the health records of Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond has sparked a huge security alert.

Confidential computer files on the Prime Minister and Holyrood’s First Minister were illegally targeted along with the records of scores of other

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Mugabe Pension Grabs.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2009

It is difficult to think of a more effective way to ensure that another 3 million properties are built in Andorra, and another 3 million relatively wealthy people move their savings and pensions out of the UK into Andorra, or

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Just because I can……

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2009

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Eating humble pie……..

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2009

Neither those who love me, nor those who wish they’d never set eyes on me – and I’ll admit to a few, would ever accuse me of being a feminist.

I believe too strongly in the superiority of merit as the

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Twick or tweet?

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by Anna Raccoon on March 1, 2009

 Yesterday we were treated to the news that Madeleine had her own twitter account. The account was opened on June 30th 2007 – at 7.57am, someone was up early that day. 

 Twitter is the art of describing ‘what you are currently doing’ in 140 characters –

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