Here’s a list of football teams that all have a few things in common. Liverpool, Everton, Ipswich Town, Bolton Wanderers, Millwall, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Rangers, Celtic, Dundee United, Hearts, Hibs,
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Total Balls
Elderly patients on hospital wards left alone, unwashed, unfed, dehydrated, water and alarms left out of their reach.
Frail and frightened, left – quite literally – to rot in their own urine and faeces, developing
Continue reading →The Ballard of Elliot Morley
With apologies to the Beatles
Elliot Morley
Pays off his mortgage and pockets a cool sixteen grand
All cash in hand;
‘Sloppy accounting’,
All a mistake and there’s nobody else he can blame,
Oh, what a shame!
All the crooked people,
Where do they
A Glimmer for the Family of Ian Tomlinson
The death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protest in April 2009 may well go down as an incident which changed the instincts of many in Britain towards the police and how they go about their
Continue reading →Obama – That Speech in Full
As noted by Randy Hack, political correspondent
Hello.
My name is Barak Obama.
I look a bit like Morgan Freeman. And I sound like him too.
Especially in The Shawshank Redemption. Which is quite a good film.
There
Why I shop at Tesco
It’s the in thing to hate Tesco. You’re cool if you reject Tesco and it’s plans to take over the world. The proponents of the anti-Tesco campaign have many
Continue reading →Rakofsky versus the Internet
It’s nice to know that apocalyptic language is still daily use in some circles:
Picture Caption Contest.
Just think, if all the footballers in all the world kept their dongle in their trousers, we could have saved an entire rain forest from being cut down to provide news paper…..
Continue reading →Heralding a New Division
The Scottish Herald appears to my southern eyes to be a strong supporter of Alex Salmond and thus his desire for independence from the UK. Scottish readers are free to disagree with me on this point.
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The Quiet Revolution.
There are 10,000 miles of railway track and around 2,500 railway stations in Britain. Not many people know that – except the railway buffs, and the British Transport Police. For despite their all
Continue reading →The Real Dons get a Sense of Closure
I’ve nothing whatsoever against Luton Town, and in fact had a certain fondness for them as my early years of watching football coincided with the end of their period
Continue reading →Red Tape Challenge
The government is asking for your help in cutting bureaucracy. It is admitting that it doesn’t know how to cut the red tape but at least it’s acknowledging that it could do with cutting. At least
Continue reading →Rabbit Awareness Week
It’s Rabbit Awareness Week, and you missed it – didn’t you?
They want to remind you that by law (Continue reading →
Rude Boys Rule, OK?
Reading through the morning blogs, you can be amused, intrigued, informed, misinformed, inflamed, alarmed, and very occasional, completely pole-axed, as someone relates an incident in their life that illustrates a truism that had never occurred to you.
Laurie Penny going round in circles over the Spanish Revolution
This morning, Laurie Penny our fearless investigative reporter set out to research the stories covered by the papers, taking grave personal risk to read the Internet. ![]()
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And a detailed Continue reading → The New Improved DIY Daily Fail.
We have whinged so long and so competently that the Daily Fail and the extra informative Sunday edition merely makes up its stories – when it is not nicking them from bloggers that is – that today’s
Continue reading →Groves and DeGale Stir Up Old Memories.
One of the perceived problems in modern boxing that causes irritation to many fans of the sport is the failure of the best to meet each other when it matters. The on-off Pacquaio vs Mayweather fight is the
Continue reading →Could be a serial killer?
Reading between the lines
Orville Smith, a store manager for Best Buy in Augusta, Georgia, told police he observed a male customer, later identified as Tyrone Jackson of Augusta, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket.
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Tales From The Cabinet Room Bug
Event#Start_Recording
Call Me Dave: “Welcome, colleagues, a jolly good day to save the planet by inventing new taxes and throwing more money at the PIIGS. Theresa, how are we doing
Continue reading →Takeway nappies
Nappies. Do you use reusable or disposable?
Everyone has a view as to which one to use. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages.
Reusable – Con: messy, separate washing Pro: reused,
Continue reading →Strauss-Kahn and the Diallo violin orchestra.
The global economy has been described as a ‘world family’. Let us stick with that analogy for a moment.
The family owes more than it is earning, in fact owes mores more than the total amount
Continue reading →Different levels of crime
So Ken Clarke made a boo boo the other day and got his words in a twist and didn’t say exactly what he meant to say about the crime of rape.
Continue reading →The Right Wing Radio Duck conspiracy
[Update: I’m having a couple of problems embedding video, so I’ve used links.] The best “patchwork” video I have even seen – one constructed from a montage of sources – is “Right Wing Radio Duck”, where “Donald Duck Continue reading →
Right, said Fred…..
Despite reports to the contrary, Ms Raccoon is not superwoman, and cannot manage to be in two places at once.
I am currently in the middle of moving house.
Mr G finds it perfectly normal
Continue reading →When Privacy Law prevents reliable reporting.
This morning I was granted an insight into the image of England as it may be seen from abroad, complete with our funny English superinjunctions and our ruritanian
Continue reading →The Ancient Art of Verbal Origami.
The ultimate goal of practitioners of this art is to take perfectly inoffensive words, good deeds, incentives, bright ideas, and through intricate folding of the same words into other sentences, incorporate them into a new sculpture of
Continue reading →Will the nanny state kill democracy?
Democracy is built on the idea that the people are intelligent enough to make their own decision about who they want to represent them.
The nanny state is based on the idea that
Continue reading →Hot-Bunking in God’s Little Acre.
God knows what has made me think of graveyards and resurrecting dead bodies today, I should be painting my toenails whilst I am still agile enough to reach them…anyway, here goes.
60 million people crammed onto
Continue reading →Lies, Hypocrisy and Politicians.
Trawling through my morning reading, the e-mails, the newspapers, and the various blogs, is like trying to swim through the flotsam and jetsam that washes up in a Greek tanker port.
Dead wood, dead fish heads,
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