A Guest Post from James Garry.
On the 5th of August, DazPearce contributed an article to this organ entitled “Opposing the death penalty“.
Mr Pearce’s article, I feel,
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Sponsor a Looter?
Abercrombie & Fitch has decided Jersey Shore’s cocktail of sex, alcohol, bragging and bad behaviour is harming its “aspirational” brand image and “may be distressing to many of our fans”.
It is reversing the normal rules
Continue reading →Fisking the brain–dead Loony Left.
Sometimes I despair. The following is doing the rounds on the left wing blogs to loud applause in the social media. I flatly refuse to link to it.
My comments in red italics.
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg: faux King Cnut
For tonight’s comedy post I’d like to (re)introduce Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, who is one of the prominent people in the Junior Common Room Revolutionary wing of the anticuts movement, head-in-the-clouds faction.
Continue reading →They Who Live by the Race Card Die by the Race Card
The following is a guest post by Lloyd Marcus.
Lloyd began his childhood in a Baltimore ghetto. He grew to manhood in the 1960s. He is an artist, singer, production designer and musical producer,
Continue reading →The Feckless Few.
You might imagine, listening to the morning news, that the ‘Feckless’ were a new phenomena. Some development of modern society that requires the combined thinking power of a dozen politico think tanks and a conference hall of
Continue reading →An Active Sense of Community
A Guest Post from Charles Crawford.
Almost the defining characteristic of an active sense of community is that it is only aroused when people perceive that the established structures
Continue reading →The Wrong Peasants are Revolting
I started writing this piece last week, having watched general low level vandalism and petty crime spreading across London on Sky, and then retiring to listen to the radio, sip a nice Shiraz and join in banter
Continue reading →The Gnu Songs
The Gnu song was mentioned in the comments on yesterday’s 10pm post, so I looked out the Muppets’ version of the Gnu song:
And the
Continue reading →Another One Bites The Dust in the Court of Protection
Dear Legal Profession,
What fun! I can remember a time when ‘litigants in person’ were mocked as the ‘afflicted’ by the legal profession. A nuisance. Didn’t understand the system. Not
Continue reading →Under Class v Working Class
I suspect that quite a few, although I hope not all, of the readers of this blog will just about remember “Not the Nine O’clock News”. In one of its classic sketches a professor of
Continue reading →Sliding Down the Greasy Pole.
From Kraków to Katowice, the rumours gathered strength. The streets of London were paved with gold; the British didn’t want to work; you could earn a year’s wages in a week – just sweeping the floors, washing
Continue reading →Riots in Downing Street
The picture above was found by Charon QC on Twitter; unfortunately I do not know the artist.
More Sports Documentaries – an Impossible Job
A recent OutspokenRabbit post (kindly crossed by the good people at Anna Raccoon) – concerned ‘Orient for a Fiver‘, a behind the scenes film which provided an insight into a club enduring serious hardship.
Continue reading →Just for a laugh.
Go on, just for a laugh. Adopt a fetching lisp, dress in a fey fashion, admit to past employment as a Roman Catholic trainee priest – and try and get yourself a job as a child minder.
Reaching for Sky.
What the Hell are Sky playing at?
I’ve just got home and turned on the TV, only to find that Sky are running a live interview with four masked ‘rioters’ bragging of their spoils from the riots.
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Multiplication of division
This post is a first guest article from Charles Crawford, who normally resides in his Blogoir. It is an edited version of his post Continue reading →
How to create a secure password
“Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess.” You can also view a
Continue reading →The Gilded ‘Deprived’
Among the accused was, for instance, Laura Johnson, the 19-year-old daughter of a successful company director. She lives in a detached converted farmhouse in Orpington, Kent, with extensive grounds and a tennis court.
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Panic on the Streets of Tottenham – Enfield, Brixton, Walthamstow – I Wonder to Myself..
Violence, looting, buses and cars on fire, petrol bombs being launched at patrol cars – while what has happened between Friday and Sunday in North London is relatively small fry when compared to the riots
Continue reading →Anna Raccoon goes Looting
I kid you not, the esteemed landlady of the Raccoon Arms has been caught in the act.
We have to be sympathetic.
I hear a rumour that the post-operative diet prevents even the
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Fantasy Crime
Violence, criminality, civil disobedience and of course death play natural roles in many works of fiction, be they films, literature or drama. The reason that this formula has stood the test of time and remains as prominent a
Continue reading →The Last Honky in Brixton.
With impeccable timing, the IPCC informed the panting Sky newscasters that the ‘firearm found at the scene hadn’t been fired’, just as Sky were preparing their nightly ‘roll-up, roll-up, all the fun of the fair’ broadcast of
Continue reading →The Blackberry Uprising – UPDATED
Tunisia had its Jasmine Uprising; the Guardian is crowing that the Metropolitan Police were behind the times in not knowing that London was undergoing the Blackberry Uprising.
Unlike the ‘down wiv’ da yoof’ Guardian journalists.
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Police Helicopters over Tottenham
An eerily beautiful time-lapse video showing the fires in Tottenham, and police helicopters overhead.
Credits
Youtube link.
Video by
United by the Cenotaph.
Two very disparate characters, both male, though I hesitate to refer to both of them as ‘men’. Only one is deserving of that denomination.
Two men in two different prisons. One in Wandsworth prison, one in
Continue reading →Defending the Indefensible?
Various posts and comments I have read over the past few days appear to argue that our police service is institutionally murderous, untrustworthy, and naturally racist.
Continue reading →Gangsta cRap.
Ter’ast yer know man, der finger shot mi bruvver, an he ain’t got no reason ter do dat. Mi bruv only fired off a couple a’ rounds to warn der Babylon dat he ain’t got no business
Continue reading →Laurie Penny vs John Cooper QC
This is a short segment where Laurie Penny debated with John Cooper QC on Radio 5 about whether the sentences imposed on Charlie Jonnie Marbles and Gilmour was excessive, and – if so – why.
I see no riots!
It’s always a joy to turn to the quality Sunday papers for informed well researched journalism and up to the minute information….or you could read the
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