Straw, the
Continue reading →Court of Protection: That Straw Man’s Confidence Trick Dissected.
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Jack Straw, temporarily posing in what should be his home for life
And so the unravelling continues. In a paean of praise to the voting public that kept the
Continue reading →Organised Chaos.
There I was, pondering the media reports of our shambles of an election, wondering where to start investigating how it should
Continue reading →Nursing the news along.
Pass the sick bag Alice!
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Mr G picked up a curiosity at our local vide-grenier this morning. It had a handle beautifully turning in hedgerow Holly. Mounted on top was a gourd, painted with a scene of
Continue reading →Robinson Crusoe fantasies…..
I was standing on a chair in the early hours of this morning. Not a mouse in sight. I needed the chair to reach a high shelf to rescue the one and only relic of
Continue reading →The latest occupant of the Max Wall tights.
Kitted out
Continue reading →Gay Gordon Gallops Off.
A word on the Lib Dems
The Lib Dem oil well
“Ghastly”. That is certainly one (polite) word. After Nick Clegg’s little faux pas of “forgetting”
Continue reading →McCluedo – a Righteous game for all the family.
Madeleine McCann would be seven years old today. All across Britain there are other little girls celebrating their seventh birthday – and it is a matter of supreme indifference to all except those
Continue reading →Why are we in the EU?
The latest news from the EU is that Britain has been, yet again, shafted by a stitch up between EU finance ministers who have kindly obliged us to cough up
Continue reading →The nature of democracy
Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has
Continue reading →Gordon the Impotent.
So much doom and gloom around in the blogs this morning. The media are no more of cheer.
I, however, in my usual contrary way, find plenty to cheer me.
Continue reading →The Transfer of Power.
Morning Campers! A very relieved Raccoon is back behind the keyboard again. Five long days and even longer nights during which the only sniff of a keyboard that I got was a
Continue reading →Allo Vera, Bye-bye Vera…….
'Don't you know who I am Vera….?' -The electorate fights back!
One of the most controversially extreme feminist Labour MPs has lost her previously extremely safe seat in
Continue reading →300, revisited
This is the EU!
Alastair Darling: Listen carefully, Juan Manuel Barroso. Gordon Brown conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. He leads an army of civl servants
Continue reading →Parasites that are very difficult to dislodge
An out-voted Labour parliamentarian, earlier
Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shrubs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. Physical contact
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Icelandic Men.
I’ve been to Reykjavik and I think I
Continue reading →Dispatches from the front line…
Delicious scenes of chaos here in Cambridge Just as we arrived for the count at 10pm, the theatre next door to the council offices emptied – 500 “Frankenfurter’s” disgorged from the Rocky Horror show – Continue reading → Browntaxer’s last “stand and deliver”
BROWNTAXER was a Money Cat, with funds that he would “merge”;
fact, he is the most imprudent cat that ever had the urge
to tax from farthings
Prescott John: the transport cat
There’s a whisper down the line at oh-six-thirty-nine
when the busy day is just about to start
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A Greek tragedy
"Drive the corruption from the land … "
And so it has come to pass that the EU has agreed to bail out the Greeks:
To the people of Cambridge.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The last time a maverick thundered across the Cambridgeshire fens and requested the support of the
Continue reading →The Royal Society – going downhill fast
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It seems to me this once august and revered institution is having its feet greased again. Fresh from its contentious and uncritical (and remarkably un-skeptical) adoption of IPCC dogma on “anthropogenic climate
The power of the Count
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Tormented electorate : time to take revenge,
tomorrow’s the day we can finally avenge
many years of wrong-doing and being ignored.
What’s at stake ? Dracula can be fatallyQuote of the Day
Alastair Campbell recognises the reality of 13 years of Labour rule…..! The Conservatives:“had the best imaginable playing field going into an election. A parlous economic state. Politics reeling from an expenses scandal.
Continue reading →Fishboney Blur: the mystery cat
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Fishboney Blur’s a Mystery Cat, he’s called the Hidden Flaw
For he’s the Primal Minister who redefines the law
He’s the bafflement of electors, and Westminster’sThree Men and a Quote.
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I adore the hilariously jingoistic tone of the Express headline.
“UK faces massive bill to bail out Europe’s collapsing economies.”
Perfect, it is a very
Continue reading →The Weakest Link?
