Lifting the curtain … just a little!
Under the circumstances, I suppose it’s nearly mandatory that I start off by saying, “Evening, possums!” I was as disappointed as
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Under New Management.
Well, new management folks! There will be an ‘alternative Ms Raccoon’ for the next couple of months – someone has very kindly volunteered to fill my shoes whilst I concentrate on getting better.
Continue reading →The Final Curtain.
Those of you who know me well, will be aware that I have not been well in recent months.
Thanks to the excellent French medical service, which is second to none, I have undergone a battery
Continue reading →Google and the Land of the Free.
Somewhere between my greasy gang land garagiste era and before sliding into the ice age of the Lord Chancellor’s Office, I ran a small hotel in Suffolk on the outskirts of a vast
Continue reading →Equality begins in the home.
That shrill group of legal harpies, Harriet Harman, Maria Eagle and Vera Baird, otherwise known as the Government ‘Equalities’ Office, have chosen today to launch
Continue reading →Coming to a Street Near You!
Undeterred by the egg splattered faces of scientists struggling to extricate themselves from a rising crescendo of claims that the whole notion of global warming and climate change is fraudulent, and oblivious to
Continue reading →Last remaining incandescent Rosbif writes…
Down on the Googlemail funny-forum, one patient won’t be taking any more medication
Earlier this year I had a long and at times irritable email correspondence with Oliver
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
The Anger of a Quiet Man on the farce that is Catherine Ashton’s new appointment.
Raedwald on the need for a European Army.
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The Not So Triffling Truffle.
It’s Me Religion, Innit?
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++Breaking News++
Raise your eyes to the skies, bow down before them. Greet the new President of the European Council and the new Foreign Affairs Chief. Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy and Mandelson’s
Continue reading → It takes one to know one…
Right, lets take this very, very, slowly.
The gentleman sandwiched in the middle of these two ladies, as he has been for some time, is David Curry MP.
The
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Born under a bad sign,I been down since I began to crawl,
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I wouldn’t have no luck at all* (*Music by Booker T Jones, lyrics by Continue reading →
God Speed Ye Legal Gentlemen…
God speed ye Legal gentlemen, let nothing you delay,In ending piglet’s troughing ways,
And save us all from Nu-Labour’s power when they had gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort Continue reading →
A Very British Beef…
We’ve all been told it’s very rudeIf we neglect to chew our food
But what is stocked in one big shop
Has caused my lower jaw to drop
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Listen with Mother.
Are you sitting comfortably boys and girls? Then I’ll begin.
Once upon a time, my husband and I hoped that this year’s speech might contain something about cleaning up this den
Continue reading →Gordon’s Puppet Master.
How to get a head in the BBC: Part 1 Paul Smith spent the best part of two years in the Broom Cupboard, with his hand inserted in Gordon’s anal
Continue reading → The Danger of Following The Sun.
Trussed Up by Norfolk Tories.
Conservative Central just don’t get it. They pay lip service to the idea that the electorate are up in arms about MPs expenses, they mutter that the electorate are ‘our Masters’, then
Continue reading →Catching Balls, Twitterati Supremo.
Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children.
Salary: £142,000 pa
Claimed expenses: £21,429 last year
Outlined above is the official nature of Ed Balls’ job
Continue reading →Is it ‘cos I’s Black?
Two days ago we had the farce of searching South London for a 25 stone Afro-Caribbean woman based on the sole information being that she had a mole under her
Continue reading →Court of Protection: Masters of Lunacy
The Mail on Sunday holds out the delicious prospect that we may yet see some ‘naked’ civil servants. Whilst I have lambasted them previously for their inaccurate reporting, they have taken another bite
Continue reading →Helping the Police with their Enquiries.
I heard on the radio that a ‘dangerous murderess’ had been taken for a stroll round the local ‘Toys ‘R’ Us’ and decided not to return to the secure mental hospital whence we had thought she was safely
Continue reading →Proportional Humiliation.
One of the ‘events’ I missed during my three day sleep in, was the defeat in parliament of the removal of the ‘freedom of expression’ amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill.
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Lost Encounters……
Raccoontrack would like to apologise for the lack of buffet car on the 11/11/09; the non-appearence of the 12/11/09, and the 13/11/09. Wrong kind of sheep, leaves on the track, too much wind
Continue reading → The future in the Coffee Grounds.
Isn’t this clever? It is now five minutes to three in the afternoon, the Prime Minister isn’t even in the chamber – and the Spectator started telling us what he said three hours
Continue reading → Hissing Brown and the ‘S’ word.
Jamie Janes of the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards
Jacqui Janes is the woman we need in Parliament.
Whichever party has the wit to sign her up as Parliamentary
Continue reading →Let them Eat Whine and Erections for the Whining Clergy.
Fresh from whining during ‘Alcohol Awareness Week’ about the estimated 91,000 deaths that will occur in the next decade due to the over consumption of evil booze, which is apparently an ‘unacceptably high death toll’ amongst
Continue reading →The Difference a Word Makes…
What to do with a Shrink on the Brink?
