The idea of accepting personal responsibility for anything seems to have gone the same way as straw hat and white gloves with a summer dress, an anachronism that we barely remember and cannot begin to conjure up
Continue reading →Yearly Archives: 2011
Potted Twitter
I have been a little distracted from blogging over the past week by matters temporal, but have been keeping my eye on the lawless, crazy and often profane and sometimes witty World of Twitter. Below is a random selection of those tweets
Continue reading →Money for Nothing
On Friday I received a text which I’m sure many of you will also have received:
“Due to a new legislation, those struggling with debt can apply to have it written off. For free information reply
Continue reading →Competition – Write the Rules.
This will be fun!
NUJ members at the BBC have today started a second 24 hour strike action against compulsory redundancies.
A work to rule will start when the BBC
Continue reading →Skiing Down the Angel Escalator
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
Continue reading →Dr Who Tube Map
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:
What does $100m look like?
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
Continue reading →Judgment Day
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
Continue reading →Amy Winehouse joins Club 27
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,
Continue reading →The Diary of Gildas, 1663
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
Continue reading →When the flan hit the shit (caption competition)
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
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
Continue reading →“The best of times, the worst of times…”
“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
Continue reading →Suppressing Reality
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
Continue reading →Taxi!
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
Continue reading →“Patients will be little more than consumers…”
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
Continue reading →Epic Dickwaddery at the New Statesman
Star of Caledonia
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
Continue reading →‘Dead Children are made of Gold’
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
Continue reading →The writing is on the Mall
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
Continue reading →New Cavaliers! A Call to Arms!
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
Continue reading →The Tail Wagging The Dog – Guest Post
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
Continue reading →Taking leave of Morrissey
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.
Libertarian Libertinage
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
Continue reading →Northern Wisdom from Mr Ed
Another hard-hitting interview from political heavyweight Ed Miliband. Voice-sync Wallace and Gromit, without the Cheese, may get slightly
Continue reading →Murdoch the indefensible
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
Continue reading →Tom Harris interview about #hackgate
Yesterday Law Blogger CharonQC, who will be known to many Anna Raccoon readers, did a short (20 minute) podcast interview with Tom Harris
Continue reading →News International – Something puzzles me
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
Continue reading →I won the EuroMillions!
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
Continue reading →I love my friends, and my friends love me
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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