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Monthly Archives: August 2010

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The awkward squad?

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by Sister Eva Longoria on August 31, 2010

My parents are, like me and so many of my Sisters here at THE CONVENT, most mild of manner and demeanour. But unlike me they are in their eighties, though in blessed good health. 

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Savez-vous que vous parlez très mal français?

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by Anna Raccoon on August 31, 2010

Philip Salter at the Adam Smith Institute laments the lack of French taught in schools, and attributes this to schools preferring

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Student Grant-ed Millions.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 31, 2010

 

Gareth relaxes on the Sunseeker he hired to amuse a group of friends he took on holiday to Ibiza.

It was not only MPs who were casualties of

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iDave’s new baby….

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by Anna Raccoon on August 30, 2010

It’ll keep you awake at night Dave,

It’ll make never ending unreasonable demands,

In years to come when you want its support, it’ll announce that it has to go off and ‘find itself”,

You’ll spend years clearing up the mess it makes,

It

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The ‘infallible’ sniffer dogs….

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by Anna Raccoon on August 30, 2010

Cadaver dogs perform a grim but essential task – locating the presence of human remains, even minute particles of human remains. In America, the cadaver dogs first achieved national recognition in the aftermath of 9/11,

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 28, 2010

Bumper Bank Holiday Edition. Lament for a Piper from Subrosa. Beautifully written. True dedication from Dick Puddlecoat. Sham Democracy from Obnoxio.

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In praise of real women.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 28, 2010

Spare a thought for Mrs Blunt today, and the little Blunts. Whatever she feels like, whatever she really thinks, despite the public utterances to friends and family, despite the carefully chosen expression, she starts today firmly in a closet

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A great day for British liberty

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on August 28, 2010

Today is a great day for British liberty, values and traditions. Today should have been marked by a protest march by the increasingly blatantly bigoted “English Defence League” and a counter-protest by the always blatantly violent,

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Loose connections.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 27, 2010

The Daily Telegraph’s xenophobia continues unabated.

Pensioner told her electrical safety report would be written in Polish.

Stella Sheen, 70, said two Polish workmen arrived at her home

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Links and Blogrolls and Rankings and all that.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 27, 2010

As the results start to trickle out of the Total Politics rankings for 2010, the inevitable carping and whining commences as to how unfair it is that the ‘same people’ always appear at the top, how it is an

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Con-Dem partnerships can be tricky……

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by Anna Raccoon on August 27, 2010

Coalition partners resort to violence.

Liberal-Democrat councillor Christine James has been charged with assault and will appear in Weymouth Magistrate’s Court on September 9th.

Feeling are running high amongst the tribal ground force. Passions inflamed

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Asil meets his Nadir.

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by Andrew on August 27, 2010

Dear Asil,

Are you mad ! I heard your pretty little speech about ‘an innocent man has nothing to fear from an English Court ‘on Radio 4, but you have been out of the Country

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Population zero, but it has a Government of four, a Fabian Paradise.

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by Andrew on August 26, 2010

I read about Ellen MacArthur’s trip to South Georgia last Sunday so I thought I would have a look at the delights of South Georgia on line today. I was amazed to find that this proud little island,

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The Righteous target the Internet.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 26, 2010

Remember when our children were used to encourage us to smoke?

Over at Righteous Central, aka the British Medical Journal’s sidekick ‘Tobacco Control’, they are beside themselves with excitement.

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Don’t put your daughter in the nursery Mr Cameron…..

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by Anna Raccoon on August 25, 2010

I have been chewing on the rump of Ed Balls’ Frankfurtian neo-Marxist ‘interdisciplinary social theory’ empire overnight. I don’t recommend it – tough, chewy, and humourless.  I fell down a rabbit hole marked Quango Central, and it

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A rape by any other name……

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by Anna Raccoon on August 25, 2010

We have had some cracking redefinitions of the infamous crime of Rape recently. These cases may be increasing the Police rate of detection of a  crime where it can be notoriously difficult to find the perpetrator, but they will

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315 degrees Celsius

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on August 25, 2010

Hot enough for you?

I have been to some very hot places in my life. The absolute hottest was a flying visit to Kuwait City shortly after the first Desert Storm. There

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Willetts Woolly Waffle.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 24, 2010

Much-Slagging-In-The-Media is a curious village.

It has a language of its own, words such as ‘poverty’, ‘discriminated’, and ‘progressive’ which have a meaning unsuspected in the real world outside the village boundary.

It has

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It’s a bit late, isn’t it?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on August 24, 2010

Brave Sir Ian

I see that Sir Ian Gilmore, outgoing President of the Royal College of Physicians, has bravely decided to say something useful upon his resignation:

Decriminalising drug

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Congratulations!

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by Anna Raccoon on August 24, 2010

Congratulations to David and Samantha Cameron – delivered of a fine 6lb 1oz baby girl at the Truro Hospital whilst they were on holiday.

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Stealing our language

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by Kevin on August 23, 2010

Once upon a time, when the Righteous were known as one track minded, Fair-isle sweater wearing anal retentives with a curious nasal whine who should be avoided at all costs, there lived an

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Not much acumen on display here

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on August 23, 2010

Once again, doing the right thing

Unlike many of the good readers of this blog, I have a passing interest in prurient matters. Not intimately, you understand, as such days are far

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Kissing Cousins – the Mate Debate.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 23, 2010

In 1987, a group of genet­icists published a surprising study in the journal Nature.­ Those­ researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) taken from 147 people across all of today’s major racial groups. Even more impressive,

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Fighting ‘them’ on the Sandwell.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 22, 2010

70 years ago this week, Winston Churchill made his famous speech immortalising the words ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’ He did so to

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 21, 2010

Battle ready Edition…… The Appalling Strangeness on democracry’s threat to Freedom. Dizzy on Graduate Taxes. Jack of Kent on the advisability of

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Make mine a double!

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on August 21, 2010

Single malt petrol? Certainly, sir!

I need to start this off by saying that I really don’t believe in man-made climate change. I quite firmly believe that the climate changes, but I

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Let’s Break Up!

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by Andrew on August 21, 2010

The one thing about Nations and the elites that rule them is that they like to emphasise their unending continuity, the truth is somewhat different. Most ‘Nations’ are fairly tenuous and of very short lived duration.

Our

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Free Will, Autonomy, and Totalitarian Instincts.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 20, 2010

What follows may not seem to have any relevance to you at the moment. It may appear to be of merely academic interest.

However, are you quite sure that your life path is one that accords

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The Big Society is working well isn’t it?

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by Anna Raccoon on August 20, 2010

The Big Society is about a huge culture change…

…where people, in their everyday lives, in their homes, in their neighbourhoods, in their workplace…

…don’t always turn to officials, local authorities or central government for

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Means testing

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on August 20, 2010

It’s a crime!

Another day brings us another nimble U-turn from the “Coalition of the Willing (to be just as bad as Labour)”. In opposition, everyone was vehemently against Labour’s plans to

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