Over 100 years ago, the Rev. LaFayette Moore, a Baptist minister, gave up parish work and entered the business world with a pill cutter and gelatin coating machine. He rented
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World Hypocrisy Day?
We should really celebrate some of the magnificent examples that surround us at the moment. Perhaps a sludge grey ribbon lapel button or a badge with an upside down principle, or even better, one of those mobile
Continue reading →Now we are Nyx – Life as a Journalistic Goddess
A guest post from Laura Peony.
Hello, the blog.
It’s been a very strange few months. Things have
Continue reading →Stephen Neary Unlawful Detention Full Judgement
Unlawfully Detained!
Last year I reported extensively on the case of Steven Neary, a 20 year old autistic man. At the time, only Private Eye had taken
Continue reading →Weiner’s Schnitzel.
The Schnitzel, as any good cook will tell you, is a lump of immature meat, encased in a crust. The only way to make it edible is to beat it within an inch of its life, and
Continue reading →Carpetbagging the women of SOE
This week in the Lords there was a debate about the need to recognise the ‘women of SOE’. As Baroness Crawley put it:
In this Question for Short
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The FIFA soap opera continues, and Placido Domingo, Johan Cruyff and Henry Kissinger have been drafted in to save world football.
As Sepp Blatter put it:
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Our Vera hits the headlines again.
The house that Vera Baird put on the market for £315,000 last year after she had finished ‘winding up’ her constituents in sunny Redcar, has finally sold for £265,000.
This is the house that
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Where, precisely, does our sexual orientation stem from?
Certainly not our birth certificate which is a rough ‘rule of thumb’ observation recorded at a time of considerable drama. Yep, looks like a penis, that’s a boy!
e-Coli, the computer age plague.
Have we seen such fear and loathing since the Black Death hit London?
The Daily Mail says we should avoid eating ‘European food’, conveniently forgetting that the UK is part and parcel of Europe, no matter
Continue reading →Chocolate boobs.
So there you are – a responsible parent, anxious only to do the best by your children.
It’s your son’s 12th birthday, a celebration is called for! What are you? 30, 35? Certainly the right age
Continue reading →Hackers ‘R’ Us
When M16 use GCHQ computer experts to hack into Middle Eastern computers and replace bomb making instructions with a recipe for cup cakes, it’s a bit of a giggle, What Ho! Boys, just a jolly
Continue reading →Quid Pro Quo.
How curious it is that a country such as the UK, which has been so staunchly socialist for the past 13 years, should be so obsessed with ‘individual rights’. It is those ‘individual rights’ which lie behind
Continue reading →Party Time!
Hello my darlings – I haven’t half missed you all!
Rural France excels at things like growing lettuces, keeping families together, fostering community spirit; by heck, it struggles when asked to integrate with the modern high
Continue reading →Libertarian Party – A Blueprint For Renewal
I am publishing this article here for two reasons. Firstly, Anna was good enough recently to give me a platform for my Minority Report when I was temporarily unable to publish on the Libertarian Party site. Secondly,
Continue reading →Fi Fa, Foe, Fumble…
I don’t want to be told that we ‘live in a democracy’ any longer; the phrase now irritates me beyond belief.
Everywhere I look I see evidence that the feudal system of kings and serfs is
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