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Monthly Archives: June 2010

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Judicial Tsunami.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 30, 2010

A megawave of tsunami proportions is slowly backing up and preparing to wash over the judicial system. Today there are a scant couple of regional journalists standing on what used to be the shore line, scanning the horizon and

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Not in front of the children! Limerick contest…

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by Anna Raccoon on June 30, 2010

Educating children is a delicate affair, not for the feint hearted.

The Lord Mayor of Leicester did his best at a ‘Global Educational Summer Showcase for Schoolchildren’.

The decidedly ‘global’ Lord Mayor

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A good day to bury bad news?

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by Anna Raccoon on June 30, 2010

Today Ken Clarke will make a major speech on the subject of the prison population. As is considered normal these days, we already know what the speech contains before it is heard in parliament.

He

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The Thick-tank.

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by lenko on June 29, 2010

The Raccoon Economic Thick-Tank (RETT) has reported on its representations to the government, on potential additional taxation. A precis of its

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Not exactly “Crocodile Dundee” these cuts, are they?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on June 29, 2010

My attention was drawn to an article in the Spectator, well, not so much an article as a graph, really:

And

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It is just not going to happen!

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by Andrew on June 29, 2010

Why are the Comrades from UNITE not storming Whitehall, taking to the streets in protest at the ‘Cuts’. After all, the rhetoric from Con-Dem is that they are taking action to stem Government spending by ‘savage

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The Welfare State we’re in

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on June 28, 2010

Gearing up for their share of Gordon's profligacy

When you think of welfare and poverty, what comes to mind? Do you think of people down on their luck? Perhaps

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The Sacred ‘Cow’ & ‘Gate’.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 28, 2010

When Frank Field told a Sunday newspaper:

“I will always put the interests of my country and constituents before my party. I have never refused to speak to people on

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The Baker’s Dozen.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 28, 2010

Blimey, not only but also; past present and a few future UKIP members have been roaring around the blogosphere in hysterical outrage following the Mail’s predictable anti-European blast that ‘the EU is planning to ban

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Heads are Rolling!

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by Anna Raccoon on June 28, 2010

Jean-Pierre Escalettes, the French Football Federation president, has just resigned in shame after the French team’s dismal performance both on and off the pitch during the 2010 World Cup.

France crashed out of the tournament with

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Superheroes on Saddleworth Beer Walk.

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by Gildas the Monk on June 27, 2010

An interesting week culminates with me resigning from my former place of work, and starting a new practice on Tuesday next. Generally stressful and difficult, so we shall park that. Basta Adesso. Enough already.

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Meandering thoughts.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 27, 2010

20 odd years ago I was sitting at home, chaffing; the Doctors had stopped me driving whilst they tried to sort out my eye, and long days free of work is a tough billet for a dyed in the

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 26, 2010

Anthony Vickers does politics on the football field brilliantly. Angry Teen demolishes the ‘footballers are overpaid’ argument. Jo Marchant in search of a

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The dulcet tones of God…

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by Anna Raccoon on June 26, 2010

Over at the Hadron Collider – haven’t heard of that for a while have we? – they are still playing ‘let’s find God’, shooting beams of proton particles 27 miles under the Swiss mountains in the hope

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The British civil service, eh? Makes you proud…

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by Anna Raccoon on June 26, 2010

Image taken from Civil Service Recruitment Ad – http://www.prospect.org.uk/sectors/CVL/

Tom Harris must have expected some shtick when he wrote these words, he disabled his comments temporarily.

I

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In Praise of Unpaid Amateurs.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 25, 2010

I knew a Solicitor once, a solid respectable man. His child was of a class of person about to be seriously disadvantaged by forthcoming legislation. He lobbied hard against the legislation; he wrote letters, made

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Having Your Cake and Eating it.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 25, 2010

With the announcement today that State Retirement age is to be raised to 66, this ‘snip it’ (sic) may be of interest to the gentlemen amongst our readers.

Christopher Timbrell was 58 years old,

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A History of the World in 100 Objects.

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by Gildas the Monk on June 25, 2010

THE GREAT STONE MAN OF FIFE

Last week, A History of the World in 100 Objects examined the Death Pottery of Batsu–Batsu and its images of human ritual sacrifice, cannibalism, and voodoo.

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You cannot be serious !

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by Andrew on June 24, 2010

I have been otherwise engaged battling the forces of darkness in Court, the subject of a more considered post mid July.

So I have only just got round to George’s efforts at sorting the insolvent

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Aloo Vera!

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by Anna Raccoon on June 24, 2010

Our Vera at Pontypridd Magistrates Court.

Long time no here (sic)

Those were the days eh? When you were Solicitor-General and late at night the mood took you to try

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A thought on making sandwiches

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on June 24, 2010

Oh no! I forgot the mayonnaise!

Yesterday’s discussion about sandwiches got me thinking. Every once in a while, I get tired of pre-bought sandwiches and decide to start making them myself.

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Tugboat Harrie.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 23, 2010

You have to admire the woman’s Dunkirk spirit. Totally unsuited for the voyage, bravely fighting her way to the front, can’t actually do anything useful when she gets there, too small, too insignificant, too unbalanced,

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Nick Nack Paddy Whack……

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by Anna Raccoon on June 23, 2010

The Northern Ireland Prison Service has paid £1m in salaries to suspended staff since 2005, with over £440,000 paid out in the last financial year.

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Ask Your Local Pensioner!

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by Anna Raccoon on June 23, 2010

Late last night I turned on the English TV in time to catch the inevitable whinge about the budget. There is always a whinge; the only matter of note is who is doing the whinging.

This

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Welfare “reforms” are a nonsense

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on June 22, 2010

I see the Labour Party’s bête noire, Frank Field is having a field day (!) with “welfare reform”:

FATHERS should be paid up to £2,000 a year in tax credits to stay with

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A Con-Dem-Nation

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by Anna Raccoon on June 22, 2010

The new Filly in Chris Huhne’s Stable.

The Caroline ‘Bit-of-Noakes-on-the-side’ story is showing the Con-Dem party officials in their true light.

Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, found a camera on

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Why does it feel so different?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on June 21, 2010

Is it really a new dawn?

It shouldn’t really feel different, but somehow it does.

The facts are this: while the coalition government is talking about freeing us from the yoke of the

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The English Cuisine.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 21, 2010

Many years ago I consulted Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management on the subject of Broccoli and Stilton Soup.

‘Take a head of cauliflower’ she starts, ‘and turn it upside down, drop it into boiling broth’.

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Donkeys Fed by Lions.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 21, 2010

Whilst the sight of 30 healthy and superbly fit men charging round a field in hot pursuit of an oval ball continues to captivate me, and shows every sign of continuing to do so well

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Live and Let Die.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 20, 2010

In the beginning there was Adam and Eve and a big rock.

Adam was much stronger than Eve. He could lift the big rock and drop it on her head. He didn’t need to

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