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Monthly Archives: December 2010

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“A, you’re Adorable…” An Alphabetical Review of 2010

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by Gildas the Monk on December 31, 2010

Two Wheels Good, Four Legs Bad

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by Andrew P Withers on December 30, 2010

As Cabin fever and post sewage pipe replacement excitement ennui had set in, I decided to take my self orf for a long walk starting at Yatton down the Strawberry Line,

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Bah Humbug!

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by Anna Raccoon on December 30, 2010

Young Robert comes from Poland, a country where you take care of yourself, no vast welfare state to fall back on.

He lost his job just before Christmas and with it his accommodation. He didn’t trot off to

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Nature or Nurture?

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by Anna Raccoon on December 29, 2010

Franz Gall was long ago dismissed as a pseudo-scientist by a Liberal left; his theory that there was such a thing as a ‘criminal brain’ abandoned when neuroscientists proved that there was no connection between the ‘bumps’

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Beneath the smiling cricketeers

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by Andrew on December 29, 2010

Picking up the Telegraph this morning, I see a big smiley photograph of some chaps in white hugging each other who are on holiday in the sun playing with a bat and ball. Then the BBC intones that

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So, Who’s the Pawn?

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by Anna Raccoon on December 28, 2010

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war’s begun
Alvin Tostig has a son today

And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good

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Eat, Drink and be Merry.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 28, 2010

For Armageddon is just around the corner. Sorry to be so dramatic, for I did intend to write something cheerful on the first post after Christmas.

By my reckoning, January 12th should be our final day

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Confession Time.

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by 2mac on December 28, 2010

My name is Alastair, I am a recovering Lefty Numpty and former Labour Voter.

I was a lefty for over 15 years and during that dark time I lived a lie of convenience, idealism and denial. I

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A Smuddled Message.

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by Gloria Smudd on December 24, 2010

Another year, another round robin …

Sickeningly smug greetings from picturesque Smuddland where robins perch on spades outside the door and every day the winter sun rises above a blissfully happy and successful home. So, …

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Never Mind Scrapping Cable, Scrap The Whole Department

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by Andrew P Withers on December 22, 2010

I am not going to rehearse again in these pages my own particular tussles with the DTI/BERR/BIS that are now entering their fifth year, but needless to say any organisation that refuses

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Happy Christmas!

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by Anna Raccoon on December 22, 2010

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Ergo Ego

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by Andrew P Withers on December 21, 2010

Why did this not surprise me ! Vince Cable has a massive ego that believes that ‘he can bring down the Government’. The ex Labour Party/SDP/Liberal Democrat sage who predicted seventeen

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Hurrah for Common Sense!

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by Anna Raccoon on December 21, 2010

Mr Justice Mostyn sitting on the last day before the Christmas vacation has just decided that Steven Neary shall be returned to his Father permanently in time for Christmas.

Steven, a 20 year old autistic man, has been

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Family Affairs.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 21, 2010

The Basque wars were a dim memory by the time I came across the garment in a musty bottom drawer. Peach satin and black lace, home-made, whalebone carefully stitched into the seams to cinch a waist to

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Steven Neary – Update.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 20, 2010

The past few days has seen the Blogosphere, and much of the mainstream media, consumed with the outrage of an Australian citizen, locked up without charge, without evidence of madness, in Wandsworth Gaol. Julian Assange.

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Defeated On All Fronts

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by Andrew P Withers on December 20, 2010

Two men and a brush apparently equates to BAA’s £6m investment in snow clearing equipment. What is utterly unforgivable about both BA and BAA are that they are supposed to be

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Not in front of the children.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 20, 2010

In the United Kingdom the term ‘Country Park’ has a special meaning.

The purpose of a country park is to provide a place that has a natural, rural atmosphere for

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I am Pornacus.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 20, 2010

* Brilliant title, unashamedly stolen from HERE. Along with a gem of an idea to throw a spanner in the works of the latest Nanny initiative.

The latest ejaculation from our freedom loving government has

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Libertarianism = Right Wing Crazies

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by Andrew P Withers on December 19, 2010

The Guardian that well known apologist for anything big Government does has now let the ‘left wing’ loose on name calling. During the week George Monbiot ( have I spelt that right- who cares) did a piece

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Four x Four’s To The Rescue

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by Andrew P Withers on December 19, 2010

Can it only be as long ago as eighteen months ago that Green Campaigners were targetting owners of four x four gas guzzling apocalypse creating vehicles in places like London

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To Bury Julian, Not to Praise Him.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 19, 2010

Oh to be a fly on the wall as the competing shibboleths fought to the death in the wreckage of Wikileaks last week.

Our modern main stream media have adored the Wikileaks. They have long given themselves over

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 18, 2010

1 Snowed in Edition. Subrosa – will Scotland’s assets still be there when the snow clears? Ambush Predator – predicts an icy blast for ‘votes for prisoners’.

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Spontaneous Combustion in the Blogosphere.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 18, 2010

All the world’s a blog,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

At first the infant, mewling and puking in

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by Anna Raccoon on December 17, 2010

Since we have been on ‘foreign languages’ this morning, I thought you might enjoy this:

H/t to Ollie Cromwell

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Lex in the City.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 17, 2010

A couple of decades ago, I sat in a barren government office, facing a trio of civil servants sitting on a high dais in approved ‘intimidate the interviewee’ fashion. They asked me a series of inconsequential questions,

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Lifestyle Choices At Christmas

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by Andrew P Withers on December 16, 2010

This woman is 51. She is a TV “health guru” advocating a holistic approach to nutrition and ill health, promoting exercise and a pescetarian diet high in organic fruits and

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There’s No Penis Like A Snow Penis.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 16, 2010

And other cold weather jokes…..

Blimey – we’ve even got snow in the Dordogne this morning! The Pompiers were out at the crack of dawn pulling motorists out of ditches, and my neighbour has smoke coming out of

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Shiver Me Timbers

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by Anna Raccoon on December 16, 2010

Remember clause 17 of the Digital Economy Act? Probably not. Boring stuff isn’t it?

That’s the one which would allow the British Phonographic Industry – no wonder they go by the acronym of the BPI –

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Read the Small Print No:276

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by Anna Raccoon on December 15, 2010

From Downing Street:

The Cabinet confirmed that the wedding on Friday, April 29 next year will be an official bank holiday. The day falls at the end of Easter week and

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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by Anna Raccoon on December 15, 2010

Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has limited the scope of his audit opinion on the regularity of expenditure in the 2009-10 Resource Accounts that report the costs of the MPs’ Expenses Scheme. This is the first audit

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