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Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Back Story – The Big Society.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 20, 2010

It was dark and stormy night in 1726. Tobias Muddlestick bent over the leather bound ledger, dipped his quill in the ink, and carefully inscribed the words ‘Received 6d’. He paused over the words heading

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At home – with Our Vera…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 19, 2010

Chez Vera Baird…

Our Vera only got £32,383 of our money as a resettlement grant when we kicked her out of Redcar. The ‘winding-up’ expenses she can draw on finish on

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Compressed Morbidity.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 19, 2010

I hate the men who would prolong their lives
By foods and drinks and charms of magic art
Perverting nature’s course to keep off death
They ought, when they no longer serve the land
To quit this life, and

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Battleground Ethics.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 19, 2010

A young soldier is confined to barracks today, awaiting possible court martial.

His crime was apparently to think on his feet, and comply with his instructions by the most efficacious method available to

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The British Government and Torture.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 18, 2010

On Friday, the High Court gave permission for a judicial review of the government’s failure to hold a public inquiry into the UK’s alleged complicity in the torture of a large number of civilians.

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That Darn Ole Deficit.

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by Di Gestive on July 18, 2010

I received a donation of a dog a few weeks ago. I am the mad English woman in my local neighbourhood where my door mat is the unofficial repository of pets the local Arabian populus

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Sunday Sermon

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by Gildas the Monk on July 18, 2010

“BRITAIN has kings, but they are tyrants; she has judges, but unrighteous ones; generally engaged in plunder and rapine, but always preying on the innocent; whenever they exert themselves to avenge or protect, it

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 17, 2010

Emdashes – the article announces a comeptition to write a love letter to your favourite punctuation mark – the results are in the comments section…..,,,,,????&&&& Mediablog – has an exclusive

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‘On yer bike – and make it snappy’.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 17, 2010

Is an hour too long to wait in an emergency? Can passion survive the wait?

In an age when the Pizzeria guarantees your appetite will be sated within ten minutes of your call, I wonder at

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The Road to Nowhere

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on July 17, 2010

Feelin’ okay this mornin’
And you know,
We’re on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

As it does so very often manage to do, the issue of road pricing has come around once again. And, as

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The Daily Wail….

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by Anna Raccoon on July 17, 2010

You really, really, need to go HERE to read this image in all it’s glory.

A quite brilliant effort from The Poke reducing the Daily Wail’s secret editorial formula to a map of the moral underground.

This is a piece

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The Sacred Disease.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 17, 2010

400 years before Christ was born, Hippocrates wrote his essay on the so called ‘sacred disease’ – Epilepsy. He was trying to debunk the theory that epilepsy represented a ‘possession by the spirits’.

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Reading the Prunes…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 16, 2010

My sister-in-law once famously arrived here for a week’s holiday with six packs of Waitrose prunes in her luggage.

She has never lived it down – this part of the Dordogne is bang in the centre

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Stop Press ++ Lord Taylor of Warwick ++

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by Anna Raccoon on July 16, 2010

Lord Taylor’s strangely prophetic web site……

Perhaps the website designer is working on some horizontal bars? Or did he mean ‘charges will occur from time to time’?

The Crown Prosecution

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Deconstructing Marital Dogma.

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by Jane Fae on July 16, 2010

Buddy Christ – from the film ‘Dogma’.

I am a great fan of “Dogma”.  The film, that is, which itself is based on a witty and potentially irreverent view of

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ChavRadio Shuts Up Shop.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 16, 2010

Draw your own conclusions.

No more ‘Gaunt stranded in Tenerife’, no more ‘SunTalk live rescues stranded Brits’ – how will the Costa Del Crime survive and remain informed without the foul mouthed Gaunt to keep them abreast

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Where Are They Now? – No. 271 – Dame Petey Mandyslime of Goy

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by Daedalus X Parrot on July 15, 2010

Another fascinating article in our series of short hackiographies of the faded stars of yesteryear who have been absent from the public eye…

Dame Petey Mandelslime of Goy was a

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Aimee Sword

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by Anna Raccoon on July 15, 2010

Language is the tool of choice for the Social Engineer. Professors tell university students that there is no such thing as ‘right or wrong’, we are all autonomous and can pick our beliefs to suit ourselves. The media

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He’s not a hero …

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on July 15, 2010

… he’s a very naughty boy!

I see the progressive wing of British society is up in arms because our new Prime Minister has dared to utter heretical words. In Parliament, he

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Just BATS!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 15, 2010

The Government must be feeling the pinch with all these righteous folks giving up smoking. Revenues from tobacco are dropping.

Justine Greening, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, has hit on a cunning plan.

He has

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Beware the bigots of Rochdale.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 15, 2010

Subrosa has highlighted the decision of a small group of managers in the Rochdale shopping centre to install what are delicately known as the ‘Nile Pan’, or alternatively, the hole in the ground toilet, for

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Doctors Ain’t Accountants – or tinkering around the edges (again!)

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by Andrew on July 14, 2010

Sadly, I am getting old enough to have seen Andrew Lansley’s ‘reform’ of the National Health Service before. Then it was the Tories introduction of the ‘Internal Market’;  it failed then and Lansley’s plan is going to fail

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Afghanistan – reflections on the strategy in the light of three more deaths.

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by Gildas the Monk on July 14, 2010

I remember the lesson very well. As young potential officers, we had been told to assemble by the statute at 8.00 am sharp. We duly assembled on time, sitting around the base

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The Press – A Cautionary Tale

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by Gildas the Monk on July 12, 2010

I read both the Sunday Mail and the Sunday Times of a Sunday morning. The Abbot says I should not do this, because it causes my blood pressure to become even higher than normal, and a

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Chav Media.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 12, 2010

Our Hero, the hard man, being ‘well’ hard.

Admittedly the media in general are having a hard time. The Grauniad’s traditional source of income, all those lovely public

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110,425 disappointed Dutchmen reluctantly settle for the wife.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 12, 2010

Spain winning the world cup has had a dramatic effect on marital relations in Holland.

Dutch porn star @BobbiEden wanted to increase her Twitter following.

She offered a free ‘blow job’ to her relatively few

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Struck Dumb in Weegie Land

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by Anna Raccoon on July 11, 2010

I would not claim  that every inhabitant of Weegie land is incapable of stringing together a sentence that doesn’t contain words of a sexual nature, words moreover, that imply a violent sexual threat, nor that they cannot converse without

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 10, 2010

Heresey Corner with moules et frites. There was me thinking with the perfect week-end. Misplacedperson deconstructs France with verve and style that I can only dream of.

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A Requiem for Popsy.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 10, 2010

It is fatal for me to read the comments on this blog late at night – they are always superb and well thought out, so much effort goes into them; we shall ignore the churlish few. Every time I

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Crossing the Moat.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 10, 2010

Now that Mr Moat has awarded himself the prescribed martyr’s end – ‘he said he’d never let the filth get him’, and he can be duly revered in chavland; the flowers can pile up on

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