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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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The Sun has Got its Hat on…….

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by Anna Raccoon on September 30, 2009

Hip, Hip, Hip, Hooray,

The Sun has got its hat on,

and its coming out for Dave.……

That little ditty prompted one of my commentators to

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Opening Ceremony?

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by Gloria Smudd on September 30, 2009

It’s Party Conference time again and the politicians and policy makers are sound-biting and persuading, flag-waving and chest-beating, egotistically eulogising and I’m afraid I just cannot take it seriously.

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Fouetté jeté de Hoodie……

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by Anna Raccoon on September 29, 2009

Try to imagine a Labour Government Minister waxing lyrical about an attempt to instill extreme discipline in a group of young Hoodie’s in deepest Hackney by induction into the art of square bashing – or

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The Forum Furies.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 29, 2009

Orestes pursued by the Furies by Adolphe-William Bouguereau

In the Eumenides there is a passage redolent of the current trend for avenging ‘wrongs’ that are perceived not to

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Exclusive – Tonga v Scotland The Premier Championship

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by Anna Raccoon on September 27, 2009

90th minute plus …BBC has exposed the long accepted bromide that defence wins championships. With Scotland’s defence hobbled by a long play from Clifford, the Attorney-General weathered Tonga’s early onslaught and fought back with style. Dominant midfielder play

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“and with one leap Jack was free”

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by Anna Raccoon on September 27, 2009

Peter Mandelson, the Business Secretary with an interest in innovative computer technology, has, in the blink of a scaly binary eyelid, moved to the right of the decimal point – from protecting the

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The Goat Messing in Your Pint Glass.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 26, 2009

Lord Drayson is one of the few ungulates who hasn’t proved to be more of an ungrate and gone a-leaping off to a life time’s sinecure on the back benches of the House of Lord’s

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Tonga Wonga

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by Anna Raccoon on September 25, 2009

We are such generous creatures, we tax-payers.

Struggling with our mountain of debt, staring bankruptcy in the face, we dug deep into our pockets and stumped up £60,000 to send five MPs and two Peers on

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Mehdi Hasan and the Right-Wing Echo Chamber.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 25, 2009

I cannot say that I venture often into the New Statesman. James Macintyre is enough to put me off.

The headline ‘Tory Fiction, media fact’ lured me into these unexplored pastures;

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Out of the Frying Pan and into … Gold

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by Argent Provocateur on September 25, 2009

‘And it’s too late Benny, it’s too late, though you really did try to fake it ’

The recession’s over, right? The world economy will return to growth,

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Post-Coital Depression

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by AnnaRaccoon on September 24, 2009

How fitting that the end of the much vaunted ‘special relationship’ should come about in the kitchens of the UN building.

The BBC headlines over the past

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Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 4

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by Anna Raccoon on September 23, 2009

Noun.
A Peer – Oxford English Dictionary definition.
1 A nobleman.
2 A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment. Noun.
A Peer – Nu-Labour definition.
1 A man or woman

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The Department of Extrapolated Statistics

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by Anna Raccoon on September 22, 2009

Now hear this! I am immortal! You are stuck with me for ever and ever! No matter how old, wrinkled and ’sufficiently decrepit’ I become, I will not die, my arthritic old

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Bin the Filth.

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by Gloria Smudd on September 21, 2009

One might think that a Keep Britain Tidy poster campaign designed to grab the attention of litter-louts throughout the land would be welcomed by Home County matrons and City high-fliers

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Let’s all do the Tonga.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 20, 2009

Baroness Scotland, grinning happily.

The main stream media have encircled arms and are forming a long salivating line winding its way through Tongan cleaner Loloahi Tapui’s personal life, as

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Thoroughly recommended…..

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by Anna Raccoon on September 19, 2009

No, no, no! Not this plateful of NHS nutrition – which took several pages of comments before it was correctly identified as Mushroom Stroganoff – and then only by the poor unfortunate who was condemned

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Where’s the beef, Mum?

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by AnnaRaccoon on September 14, 2009

A brilliant deduction from a Cornish hospital – they have discovered that patients fed on high quality food recover faster. Would you ever?

The radical innovation will

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In parrots we trust……

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by Anna Raccoon on September 13, 2009

Derek Simpson’s inopportune squawking last week to the Daily Mirror that Labour under Gordon Brown resembled the deceased Monty Python parrot was hastily resuscitated by Unite’s spin artistes to read ‘Unite’s joint general

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Quote of the week.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 12, 2009

We’ve not seen an ounce of humility from them […] These people feathered their own nests and filled their own pockets full of a lot of cash during the course of their time […] Given all that has

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Sarah Brown

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by Anna Raccoon on September 11, 2009

Sarah Brown, yes that Sarah Brown, is being touted as the new face of Marks & Spencers. Perhaps Lily Cole and Twiggy weren’t sufficiently persueding us ladies to identify with them and

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Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails…..

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by Anna Raccoon on September 11, 2009

The ever more ridiculous Daily Mail is at it again this morning. I should stop reading it, but as a means to raise my testosterone levels and brace myself to engage in

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Let me introduce you to DAN. DAN, meet the NHS.

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by Meejician on September 11, 2009

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-current-thinking-abou_b_275753.html

This is what we’re buying into if we, as is currently mooted, ditch the NHS in favour of the US way of life and health. Hey! Snake oil! Let’s go

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Pulp Fiction.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 10, 2009

The main stream media are quick to point out to anybody who is prepared to listen that they have superior fact checking facilities and professional

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Roll out the barrel…….

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by Anna Raccoon on September 9, 2009

In Eng-er-land, that Eng-er-land
Only boozy faces bloom there
And there’s never any room there
For a worry or a gloom there
Roll out the barrel, we hear a barrel of lies
Roll out the

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Apologies to all…..

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by Anna Raccoon on September 9, 2009

My apologies, but my site is under heavy attack by spammers tonight, I shall have to turn comments off for the night, it will be read only until the morning. I regret, but in the morning I shall have

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‘Ere we go…….

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by Anna Raccoon on September 8, 2009

The indigestion suffered after Lord Mandelson has been dinning and whining (sic) with the rich and famous is widespread, and not confined to just those round the table.

The latest bout has enveloped

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Dib, dib, dib, don’t do that…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 7, 2009

Current advice from the 29th Cambridge Scout Troop –

There is an element of coming-of-age about getting your first penknife; a mastery of your

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On Lunatics and Left wingers……

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by AnnaRaccoon on September 7, 2009

A fascinating interview today in The Independent with Sir Hugh Orde, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), and a powerful vote, incidentally, in

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The silent killer.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 6, 2009

H/t to Iain Dale this morning, for pointing me in the direction of Dennis Sewell’s excellent article. I confess I had given up reading the Spectator, but shall return

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A Blairy definition of Britishness.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 5, 2009

You might think that allegiance to the Queen, the Church of England, and pride in a British passport would all be on the list of ‘definitions of Britishness’, no particularly reason why they should be

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