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Monthly Archives: July 2011

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Skiing Down the Angel Escalator

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by Matt Wardman on July 31, 2011

Yesterday evening, I asked in the comments for favourite Underground videos.

This is one of mine. A sensible gent who is late for work skis down the escalator at the Angel tube station, which

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Dr Who Tube Map

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by Matt Wardman on July 30, 2011

What happens if you decide that you can replace London tubelines with different incarnations of Dr Who, and 270 station names with Dr Who’s enemies?

This happens:

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What does $100m look like?

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by Matt Wardman on July 29, 2011

There’s a brilliant visualisation of the US Government Debt, in $100 bills, starting with a single bill and ending in a comparison of a trillion dollars with a jumbo jet, over at with wfynoway.

The pile

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Judgment Day

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by Anna Raccoon on July 27, 2011

Once again, the High Court is being asked to quantify ‘enjoyment of life’. This time the vanishing point has been moved forward from the ‘futility’ of the Bland case.

I am at a loss, as

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Amy Winehouse joins Club 27

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by Matt Wardman on July 26, 2011

The Taiwanese animators NMA TV don’t just currently do Murdoch and weather forecasts, they’ve also made a video of Amy Winehouse in nirvana,

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The Diary of Gildas, 1663

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by Gildas the Monk on July 26, 2011

And so having received the summons upon the suit against my master Lord Fixit last week, I was this Sunday bid to leave the rural Shires and make my way back to London to reply to

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When the flan hit the shit (caption competition)

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by Matt Wardman on July 26, 2011

The Register have a model explanation of what really happened when Rupert and James Murdoch were examined by the  Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

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Fear and Anxiety

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by Anna Raccoon on July 26, 2011

It is a terrible thing to live with, fear and anxiety. My heart goes out to anyone who lies awake at night, fearful and anxious that a much loved son is not yet home from a night

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“The best of times, the worst of times…”

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by Anna Raccoon on July 25, 2011

“Breaking speculation” interrupted the, er, “breaking speculation” as to who or what might be responsible for the tragic deaths in Norway. The media had moved on.  No longer were they lovingly arranging pictures of 92 clean living

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Suppressing Reality

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by Ken Ferguson on July 25, 2011

One of conservatism’s most important insights is that all ideologies are wrong. Ideology takes an intellectual system, a product of one or more philosophers, and says, “This system must be true.” Inevitably, reality ends up contradicting the

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Taxi!

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by SadButMadLad on July 24, 2011

Via a relative in London comes some news that in itself is not earth shattering and won’t reach any dead tree press. It’s only a minor change in regulations related to

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“Patients will be little more than consumers…”

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by Anna Raccoon on July 24, 2011

Buried under an avalanche of inconsequential media tittle-tattle – did ‘x’ tell ‘y’ how he got his best stories, and did ’y’ tell his boss how he did it, and should ‘z’ not resign in disgrace for

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Epic Dickwaddery at the New Statesman

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by Matt Wardman on July 23, 2011

Welcome to visitors from Order-Order – we appreciate the visit. If you enjoy this article, you can follow Anna Raccoon on Twitter here, or to do

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Star of Caledonia

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by Subrosa Blonde on July 23, 2011

As Ms Raccoon languishes in the concerned ministrations of those determined to ensure her convalescence is full of fun and frolics, I thought she must need a little Celtic input to stimulate her emotions.

A couple

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‘Dead Children are made of Gold’

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by Old Slaughter on July 22, 2011

This is the third piece I have written for this blog. It is the second concerning dead children. I hope and trust this is no reflection of my own interests, regrettably however

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The writing is on the Mall

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by Gildas the Monk on July 22, 2011

Earlier this week I posted about the phone hacking scandal.

I wrote the post somewhat infected by the excitement of the moment, what with the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police resigning and all.  And of course

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New Cavaliers! A Call to Arms!

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by Simon Cooke on July 22, 2011

In the past couple of weeks I have written a series of articles on the New Puritans on my blog – these have been aimed more at understanding than at castigation. We have to

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The Tail Wagging The Dog – Guest Post

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by SadButMadLad on July 21, 2011

If the energy expended on working out whether England subsidises Scotland or whether all North Sea oil is in Scottish territorial waters could be connected up to the National Grid, then the

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Taking leave of Morrissey

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by OutspokenRabbit on July 21, 2011

Firstly, many thanks to a workmate of mine who asked me for my thoughts on this issue.

I’m a big fan of Steven Patrick Morrissey and much of his work as an artist.

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Libertarian Libertinage

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by Anna Raccoon on July 21, 2011

Since my original post on the subject of Andrew Withers and his morally dissolute treatment of those, myself included, who had held out a hand of friendship to him, I have been careful not to add

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Northern Wisdom from Mr Ed

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by Matt Wardman on July 20, 2011

Another hard-hitting interview from political heavyweight Ed Miliband. Voice-sync Wallace and Gromit, without the Cheese, may get slightly

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Murdoch the indefensible

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by Simon Gibbs on July 20, 2011

The people over at News International have been very naughty boys, that much is clear. Yet there is something troubling about the way this saga has been covered that stretches even to the libertarian blogosphere. Murdoch’s bid

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Tom Harris interview about #hackgate

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by Matt Wardman on July 19, 2011

Yesterday Law Blogger CharonQC, who will be known to many Anna Raccoon readers, did a short (20 minute) podcast interview with Tom Harris

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News International – Something puzzles me

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by Pericles on July 19, 2011

I have a question that those propping up the bar at the Raccoon Arms might be able to answer.

One would have to have been on a planet going around α-Centauri not to have been bombarded for

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I won the EuroMillions!

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by SadButMadLad on July 18, 2011

I won the Euro Millions too!

No, I’m not buying all 5 thousand readers of this blog a drink. Nor am I going to splurge it on a holiday, a mansion, or a fast car. And I definitely will

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I love my friends, and my friends love me

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by Gildas the Monk on July 18, 2011

Is it too early to gain perspective and draw conclusions from the phone hacking scandal?

Perhaps, because one might argue that “the facts” have not yet been established. On the other hand, I have some cynicism about whether “the

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Hari Potter

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by Matt Wardman on July 17, 2011

Some silliness for a Sunday Evening. Young Wizards Hari Potter and Johann Hari look surprisingly similar. Johann Hari has remarked about interviewees thinking he

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French Letter

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by Matt Wardman on July 17, 2011

We’ve heard from the Boss, by phone, secondhand (thank-you, Mr G). [Update: You can read the background here.] The news is that Anna has had

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Why is national socialism worse than internatio​nal socialism?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on July 17, 2011

In a previous post, I discussed my thesis that the “social” in any kind of “socialism” involved pushing the costs for bad things onto society as a whole. This always entails other consequences,

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Thoughts on Social Democracy

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on July 16, 2011

I realize that I will probably offend generations of political anoraks with this bland assertion, but I’m going to make it anyway: “social” anything, whether it’s “social democracy” or “pure socialism” or “social something else” ultimately

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