April 2009 – The Anna Raccoon Archives

The documentary they didn’t want you to see…….

by Anna Raccoon on April 30, 2009

Censored in the UK – the documentary made by the policeman in charge of the McCann investigation.

You-Tube if you want to, the Laddie’s up for Gurning……

by Anna Raccoon on April 29, 2009

The Prime Minister announced today that he would continue to provide much needed mirth and merriment to the swine flu ridden electorate by appearing on You-Tube when he had important announcements to make to

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Ms Raccoon is unwell…….

by Anna Raccoon on April 25, 2009

The management regret that Ms Raccoon is unwell.

Her next performance will be at ?

Comments are off.

E-mail is off.

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Child abuse for the iPod generation…….

by Anna Raccoon on April 24, 2009

Do these people not have any brains at all? By these people I mean specifically the management team at Apple. How could anyone, no

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The Government doesn’t know what ‘broke’ means.

by Anna Raccoon on April 23, 2009

In the wake of the Chancellor’s Budget, Directgov has today launched Moneyspeak, a new, free simple tool.

Moneyspeak is an interactive tool that puts those confusing and alarming economic terms we hear every day into context.

I

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Government Balls.

by Gloria Smudd on April 23, 2009

Last week in The Times it was reported that a so-called Government behaviour expert had completed a four-year review and had concluded that ‘satisfactory performance’ should no longer be considered good enough.

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Cardsharps and Mudslingers…..

by Saul – Cub reporter on April 23, 2009

Like a Hollywood villain (but without the maniacal laughter) the mask of Nu Labour was peeled back to reveal…well The Labour Party actually. The touchy feely, cool Britannia, things can only get better era

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The Right Honourable Prime Minister is ‘pickun an kewins’* again.

by Anna Raccoon on April 22, 2009

Gordon Brown’s curiously animated appearance on YouTube yesterday can only have been as a result of the Susan Boyle phenomena; someone had

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Quick – Blears at it too……..

by Anna Raccoon on April 21, 2009

If you want to know what’s being discussed in Downing Street these days, all you need is a press pass and a telephoto lens. The Communities Secretary Hazel Blears inadvertently leaked Gordon Brown’s proposals to

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What every young McBride should know before marriage……

by Anna Raccoon on April 19, 2009

It won’t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that ‘cooking up’ stories with ‘tough as old boot leather’ Balls, he was liable

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There is a case for full disclosure by any public body of any document … which would shed light on the disaster and its aftermath.

by Anna Raccoon on April 19, 2009

Andy Burnham was not talking about the disaster in Downing Street, but of the Hillsborough disaster. Today, instead of sitting on a sofa with her husband watching a movie or two, Jacqui Smith was hard at

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Another blogger threatened…..

by Anna Raccoon on April 18, 2009

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McMysogeny and Gynophobic Politics.

by Anna Raccoon on April 17, 2009

Who can forget the colourful outburst by Sir Richard Mottram, the permanent secretary at the Department of Transport, in response to news that special adviser Jo Moore had suggested 9/11 was a good day to bury

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Four webmasters jailed

by Anna Raccoon on April 17, 2009

A Swedish court has convicted four men linked to the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing site of breaking Sweden’s copyright law. It bills

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McBride, McCann, McSpin and McSmear

by Anna Raccoon on April 16, 2009

There has long been speculation regarding the high level of support the McCanns received from within the government when their daughter Madeleine disappeared. It has been defended as ‘normal government support’ for a family in distress – but was

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Nought out of Ten for One of the Ten Best Sex Toys

by Gloria Smudd on April 14, 2009

Glancing, as you do, at the Independent web site, I caught sight of a list promising to disclose which frisky fun-purchases might qualify for inclusion in the site’s list of the Ten Best Sex Toys. So, I read on…..

I clicked through

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Gonçalo Amaral’s Documentary

by Anna Raccoon on April 11, 2009

Tagged as: Gerry

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Responsible Reportage, Myths and Mythology.

by Anna Raccoon on April 7, 2009

Ben Goldacre drew my attention to several articles on the responsibility the media must take for increasing aberrant behaviour by their very reporting of it. He was talking in particular

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Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…….

by Anna Raccoon on April 6, 2009

It tolls for thee, yeoman of the land of Magna Carta. Whilst you slumbered last night, and in the many months before, the sinister shape of Directive 2006/24/EC crept into your lives and stole your freedom

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The ‘Filth’ v the Filthy……..

by Anna Raccoon on April 2, 2009

There was an expectant air in the main stream media yesterday, waiting for ‘it’ to kick off. Waiting for ‘it’ to fill their column inches for them, for ‘it’ to

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Just to cheer us all up……

by Anna Raccoon on April 2, 2009

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