Would you like a diamond-encrusted Rolex with that, sir?
(Editor’s note: This is our first post from Di Gestive and we would like to thank her
Continue reading →Dubai World’s Default: Reasoning and Implications
The Hot Pursuit of the Body Beautiful – what a pain in the arse.
So. 38-year old Solange Magnano, sometime clotheshorse and former Miss Argentina, has died following surgery designed to give her backside a cheeky little lift.
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IT’s in the Sick Bay.
Life
The Killer Fish of Caerbannog. Looks harmless, doesn't it?
Watching this wonderful documentary is a salutary lesson to us all: the natural world is filled with beauty and wonder, astonishing ingenuity
Continue reading →And so, the traditions of Christmas continue
A time for family and joy
Ah yes, as the nights draw in and a chill fastens itself to the world, as the first stumbles and slips on icy pavements
Continue reading →Lifting the curtain, just a little
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
Continue reading →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
Continue reading →Back to School
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 →