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Monthly Archives: May 2010

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With apologies to Kylie Minogue

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by Obnoxio The Clown on May 31, 2010

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Quote of the Day.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 31, 2010

Charlie Booker in the Guardian……

In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. Unfortunately, facts are expensive, so to save costs and

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Robert Green – Hollie Greig

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by Anna Raccoon on May 31, 2010

I apologise for the length of this piece. There are a lot of facts to be laid out.

I would also ask before you tell me that I have left this or that fact out that you refer

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Wishing Your Lundie’s in Public.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 30, 2010

I am profoundly shocked this morning. Yet again a thoroughly decent man has been hounded from office by the paranoia and narrow minded venality of

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Bureaucratic Pecking Order

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by Alan McAlpine Douglas on May 30, 2010

Those who can peck,
peck. Those who can’t peck,
teach pecking. Those who can’t teach pecking,
administer the teaching of pecking. Those who can’t administer the teaching of pecking,
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One Last Question – Columbo on the Case.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 29, 2010

Some of you may remember the saga of the Libertarian candidate for Sutton and Cheam who found himself lampooned in his local paper as a ‘basque and fishnet stockings’

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Chaytor, Devine, Morley and Hanningfield.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 29, 2010

I managed to find a picture of the portly middle aged Lord Hanningfield with his hand in his own pocket for a change. I wouldn’t want to be accused of interfering with the

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Balls for Leader Campaign Logo.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 29, 2010

Guido has asked for suggestions for a logo for Ed Balls’ campaign to be elected as leader of the Labour party.

There is only one possible logo that would adequately

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Victims and Villains.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 28, 2010

The language of persuasion is subtle. With so many journalists chasing a by-line in the media’s favourite subject – serial killers! – the message is becoming muddled.

The Daily

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Knit-a-Tit.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 28, 2010

The financially pressed NHS has commissioned the Mother’s Union in Somerset to hand knit 150 breasts. They are ‘cheaper than’ the £35 a boob version they used

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Baroness Scotland Sings (apologies to Ray Davies)

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by Nick Drew on May 28, 2010

I got her from a bar down in old Soho
Where you don’t stay long
Or you catch a dose of Ebola
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The Ribena Option.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 27, 2010

Magna Carta, Ch 39: ‘No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we

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More Global Hot Air!

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by Anna Raccoon on May 27, 2010


Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to a Nepalese Sherpa

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Keep your chin up – it’s not that bad….

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by Anna Raccoon on May 27, 2010

The suicide rate in China accounts for a quarter of the world’s entire population of people who take their own life. Some 300,000 a year. It is the main cause of death amongst young men

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The Brown Stuff.

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by lenko on May 25, 2010

Busy, busy, busy… that’s Gordon for you. Things to do, people to annoy, nations to bankrupt…

Our erstwhile

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Trading in Brown Futures……

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by Nick Drew on May 25, 2010

At Party Conference in September
Gordon Brown his fate confronts
He must contain his throbbing … brain
While he recalls some famous … foes He thinks of Blair, who wooed

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Abuse of Process.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 25, 2010

I was so enraged by this case yesterday that my mind shut down. It literally would not countenance covering the subject and retreated instead into

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The moment of anticipation

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on May 24, 2010

Cold? Warm? Deep? Shallow? Who knows…?

This is it. This is that brief lull before we truly find out where we are with our new government. In the brief

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A very Libertarian vacance.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 24, 2010

The idea of being coerced into volunteering has never sat easily with the French. Memories of ‘pour encourager les autres’ a little too close for

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What Have We Learned in 2065 Years?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on May 23, 2010

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed

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Is Labour fit to Oppose?

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by Anna Raccoon on May 23, 2010

Around 10 years ago, I was visiting a patient in Wood Green, North London. As we finished talking I glanced at my watch – running late for next appointment! I fled to

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 22, 2010

Raccoon’s ‘gone on the missing list’ edition…….. Raedweld defaces the currency. Witterings sees the end of Democracy. Mrs Rigby farms

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Coalition Repeal Bill.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 22, 2010

On May 19th, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced what has been dubbed ‘The Great Repeal Bill’ with this promise:

“And as we tear through the statute book, we’ll do something

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The futility of security theatre

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on May 21, 2010

Oh, the drama!

We have already seen how pointless (and malicious) the full-body scanners in our airports are. So far, it has been clearly shown that they wouldn’t have

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A new dawn?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on May 21, 2010

Yea, verily and forsooth: a new dawn has broken in British politics. Everyone seems to be happier, Conservatives are thrilled about having their hands on the levers of power, Lib-Dems are

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Trigger Happy.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 20, 2010

With all the excitement of finding myself surrounded by cross-dressers on Election Day, as the serious business of counting the votes in Cambridge collided with the theatre showing the eternally popular Rocky

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The return of the divine wind

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on May 20, 2010

Suicide is painless

The Kamikaze (神風, common translation: “divine wind“) were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the

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My take on left libertarianism

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by Obnoxio The Clown on May 20, 2010

A rogues' gallery

For the purposes of this exercise, I will use the following definition of left-libertarianism:

Left-libertarianism, as defended by contemporary theorists such

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Strident on Trident.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 19, 2010

One of the first tasks that the civil service will have ensured that David Cameron carries out – within minutes of his return from Buckingham Palace – is re-writing the

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Objective or Subjective Charging?

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by Anna Raccoon on May 19, 2010

None will cheer as loudly as our beleaguered police forces at the news that the decision to charge on a wide number of offences is to be removed from the slippery hands of the CPS

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