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

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

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

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

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

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

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