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Yearly Archives: 2009

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading…

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by Anna Raccoon on October 17, 2009

Adam Collyer on The Liverpool Pathway. John Ward on-out-of touch MPs. Devil’s Kitchen summing up Libertarianism. Dick Puddlecoat on

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The Pink Princess

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by Anna Raccoon on October 17, 2009

When Stephen Gately’s death was first announced in hushed reverential tones on the BBC news, my first reaction was Stephen Who?  Never heard of him.

By the time the ‘breaking news’ announcements had given way to

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++ Exclusive ++ Carter ‘Rucked’ but not ‘Out’.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 16, 2009

The jubilation in the blogosphere regarding the ‘Twittering’ into silence of the Carter-Ruck ‘super-injunction’ appears to have been premature.

This morning every member of the House

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Bonfire of the Inanities

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by Anna Raccoon on October 16, 2009

Fawkes profiting from Parliament’s collapse? Dubious accounting methods ultimately destroying the integrity of Parliament? Government intervention in the style in which the unemployed were supported? Social unrest regarding the manner in which the

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A l’Eau, C’est l’Heure

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by Anna Raccoon on October 16, 2009

Dear Blog,

Thank-you for being here, you are such a comfort to me.

There I was, minding my own business, as one does when one has an Important Man Doing A Professional Job Around Your House. Especially

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Petards, Hoists and Assorted Hypocrisies.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 15, 2009

What delicious irony! Sir Stuart Bell complaining that allegedly ‘retrospective rules’ were introduced by Sir Thomas Legg during his inquiry into the probity

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In memory of Ian Wallace RIP.

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by Gloria Smudd on October 15, 2009

The hen-pecked and snaggle-toothed Mr Smudd.

If it hadn’t been for Flanders and Swann and a treacle-voiced bass-baritone called Ian Wallace, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought.

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‘Off with her head’ – Muslim march to demand abolition of the Queen

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by Anna Raccoon on October 14, 2009

The Islam4UK organisation, which seems to be nothing more than a new front organisation for the banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun of Anjem Choudary fame, has called the brothers to arms.

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Farmer fined for failing to meet ‘psychological needs’ of cow

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by Anna Raccoon on October 14, 2009

Ronald Norcliffe, 65, kept the cow and its calf in a barn but had not provided adequate lighting, breaching the Animal Welfare Act.

Huddersfield magistrates heard that Mr Norciffe, who had been a farmer for 30

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Government Moves to Regulate Markets.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 13, 2009

No, no, no – not that Market, not the Stock Market, they’ve given up all hope of controlling that market.

They have turned their attention to one of the oldest examples

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Holy Shit! – Semantics with the Holy See.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 13, 2009

The Queen has invited the Pope to ‘tea’ – “more tea Pope”? – next year at Buckingham Palace. According to The Catholic Herald, the Queen has “grown increasingly sympathetic” to the Catholic

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Brown’s Yard Sale – Everything Must Go!

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by Anna Raccoon on October 12, 2009

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his success at flogging off the family Gold at a stomach lurching $275 an ounce in 1999, Brown the spiv is out on the corner again this

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Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 12, 2009

Wikio
Wikio

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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by Traction Man on October 12, 2009

Back in Victorian times, death was never far from people’s thoughts thanks to the diseases and poor medicine of those times. You can see evidence of this in old sepia photos of sombre matronly women

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One Eye on the Bacon Futures.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 11, 2009

July 20th 2009 was a good day to bury bad news. All eyes were on The Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill which was having its first reading in parliament and

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The Prime Minister’s Health

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by John Ward on October 10, 2009

Dictated by John Ward, the blogger who started the debate concerning the Prime Minister’s health. “I’m very sad to hear the confirmation of what I was told by several senior surgical

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading

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by Anna Raccoon on October 10, 2009

Cato on Security Levels. Rantin’Rab on Blogging Porn. Obnoxio on the Downside of the Nobel Prize. The Adam Smith

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+ EXCLUSIVE + Labour drives you mad.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 10, 2009

Proof positive of something many of us had suspected for some time by careful observation of the native population, and from our own entirely subjective experience.

Living under a Labour

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Cameron’s Three Card Trick.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 9, 2009

When ‘Call me Dave’ said that he owed it all to one lady – and the BBC cameras homed in on Samantha Cameron, it was yet more evidence that those with the biggest

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IF you can keep your job when all about you,

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by Anna Raccoon on October 9, 2009

IF you can keep your job when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on t’economy,
If you can save yourself when your pensions all shot through,
But make allowance for Gordon’s thieving too;
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Circumlocuting Mandelson’s Foreshite.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 8, 2009

Profound illumination has a habit of arriving in mundane circumstances.

Archimedes was sitting in the bath when he discovered the relationship of weight to volume.

Newton was out scrumping apples.

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Get it all Down – the Money’s Right!

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by Anna Raccoon on October 7, 2009

UK Doctors, hobbled by the law which says that they cannot treat a patient without consent, have resorted to the age old lure of money.

From next month, a team based at University

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Laying off the Layabouts.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 6, 2009

The Tories will have to be careful when positioning their key speakers on the question of what to do with the 2.7 million currently claiming Incapacity Benefit – when I first saw this photograph I

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A Penultimate Word or Two from the Grammar Nazi.

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by Gloria Smudd on October 6, 2009

I have been accused of many things over breakfast – of burning the toast, of putting something known to be hated into the packed lunches, of deliberately hiding any clean underpants etc. –

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Lets hear it for the luvvies….

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by Anna Raccoon on October 5, 2009

The Primrose Hill (and a few selected postcodes East and West) mob have been out in force the past few days. It is a curious view of life, politics and economics that

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Now Let Us Sing…..

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by Anna Raccoon on October 4, 2009

All people that in Ireland dwell, Sing for me with cheerful voice. My presidency cometh near, my plans develop well; Come ye before me and rejoice. You

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It takes Guts to fight for Allah.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 4, 2009

The remorseless search for those with the guts to give their all for Allah continues.

Richard Barrett, head of the United Nations’ al-Qaeda and Taliban monitoring group revealed the vicious

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Harmanballs

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by John Ward on October 3, 2009

Following the guilty verdict in the Vanessa George trial earlier this week, Ed Balls told the BBC that ‘this kind of abuse’ represented ‘a deeply distressing and disturbing case’.

But ‘this kind of

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Unravelling the Rubi-con.

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by Gloria Smudd on October 2, 2009

Sometimes, having the face and the tenacious nature of a pit-bull terrier isn’t always an entirely miserable thing. Sometimes, doggedly following a trail which has grown so faint that it has

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The Balance of Pensionability

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by Anna Raccoon on October 1, 2009

Less than one week ago, Age Concern and Help the Aged retired beaten from the High Court after a ruling by Mr Justice Blake that the vicious Default Retirement Age brought in

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