I watched the Granada 6pm news last night. They were interviewing a masked bank robber; I assumed. It was difficult to tell. A pair of eyes was all you could see; they could have been
Continue reading →Masking the Truth.
The well-stocked medicine cabinet.
The Gay Wardens.
This Raccoon happens to have the rarest blood group there is – AB-. I share it with just 1% of the population of either France or England; you
Continue reading →Do As I Say
Previously I highlighted the case of a politician actually being quite normal and in effect saying do I as do, not as say.
However we now have the case of a politician saying Continue reading →
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? – No.274 – Osama Brown-Gordon
Forensic computer reconstructions of what renegade Osama brown-Gordon might look like now.
It is almost a year since anyone, especially from the coalition forces, has had any direct contact with the terrorist mastermind Osama
Continue reading →Do As I Do
One politician has just turned into a human being. Norman Baker has shown that he is normal.
Everyone knows that whenever a politician spouts some diktat it is always on the basis
Continue reading →Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10
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The Astute Way to Run a Navy.
Take a Beaconsfield GP, and put him in charge of your Navy.
Give him a 300 ft long nuclear powered cigar tube to play with.
Allow him to pack
Continue reading →No justice for Amy Houston
No Justice for Amy Houston: A Criminal’s Human Rights Protected
“BRITAIN has kings, but they are tyrants; she has judges, but unrighteous ones…”
These
Continue reading →Labour – Make Poverty Permanent.
Dear English, Irish and Welsh Cousins,
This is a little bit of an indulgence as you are not facing the prospect of more Labour.
Here in Scotland it is a very real possibility. Labour
Continue reading →Dr Dre, Eminem and Skylar Grey – how to write a rap song
Or how I learned to stop ogling and start listening
At the age of forty eight I have fallen quite pleasantly in love with a much younger woman. Or to be precise her voice. What happened
Continue reading →Hello Dols!
Three cheers for Sir Nicholas Wall the President of the Family Division for his recent judgement in A v A Local Authority and Ors.
The decision is one of those Court of Protection Cases that has
Continue reading →King’s Cross Stitch Station…
Governments wobble in the face of demonstrations. It doesn’t actually deter them from their course, as fox hunting fans, miners and picketing lorry drivers have discovered, but it’s good for a few knee trembles from those in
Continue reading →DIY money making scheme
There’s a new scheme about. One that could net you £1000 for doing nothing. The catch? You have to be a tenant in social housing.
Housing minister Grant Shapp has launched this new scheme.
Continue reading →Are All Interns Mugs?
How quickly a word can become a term of abuse! It seems only yesterday that an ‘Internship’ conjured up a picture of a medical student gaining valuable experience in a busy hospital ward. Today it is a
Continue reading →Is Bribery any worse than Blackmail?
Or to put it another way – is either the giving or receiving of money in order to influence a commercial deal, morally any worse than withholding money in order to influence a deal? This
Continue reading →I have a dream
I always thought that the Daily Mail was the newspaper to go to for the unusual made up stories, ones where I’m sure I dreaming they are sometimes so weird. This being more the case after
Continue reading →‘Bob a Blow-Job’.
You couldn’t make it up.
‘Scouts roll out national sex education programme’.
This years most desirable ‘prowess badge’ to have on your scouts uniform, is one for teaching the younger kids how to
Continue reading →Gildas and the Big Fish Part II
On the first day the rods are assembled in the hotel car park before breakfast. They will not be taken apart until the end of the trip; that would involve too much faffing about. Instead at
Continue reading →Fire – fire – fire – Oops!
So super sophisticated jet fighters are worried enough by small arms fire to return fire and straffe a whole column of cars and kill a dozen people. Small arms fire that can reach a Continue reading →
Princess Emma and the ‘£’s Under her Mattress.
The news that the Coalition is to tackle ‘welfare dependency’ via a ‘payments by results’ programme puts Princess Emma firmly back in the spotlight.
‘We will pay organisations by results’ announced
Continue reading →Gildas and the Big Fish Part I
It is just four o’clock. The sun is setting, and glittering red on the water in front of me. I am standing rather uncomfortably on the bank of the River Tweed, to be precise just down
Continue reading →What is Balanced Reporting?
I had always imagined that it was reflecting a range of views from within a community where something newsworthy had occurred. How wide is community in these global days?
To illustrate my point, a local post
Continue reading →The Heresy Trials.
The European desire to bow down respectfully in front of Islamic sensitivity has previously been confined to iconic figures.
Cherie Blair, defending the wearing of the Niqab. Continue reading →
Fire! Fire! Fire!
Did you grow up harbouring a secret wish to be a Fireman? To have your own Fire engine? Your wish may come true – there may shortly be an entire fleet of Fire Engines coming up in
Continue reading →Unhappy Vegans…
Oh dear! There you are, sanctimoniously ecologically correct in your biodegradable recyclable plastic sandals, lecturing the rest of the world on the need to grow more bio fuel and lentils, when someone mentions Clemson University.
Cows
Continue reading →Parliamentary Supremacy, Privilege and the Hyper Injunction, Part 2
A couple of weeks ago I posted on the topic of the so called “Super Injunctions” and “Hyper Injunctions.”
This has been a topic highlighted by our learned editor.
Where La Raccoon leads The
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Smudd tackles the avalanche cupboard Edition. Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifs on the madness of media. Mark Wallace sums up the Guardian beautifully. Old Holborn on race relations
Continue reading →A tale of Two Titties.
Molière’s Monsieur Tartuffe would have been proud of the Maire of Neuville-en-Ferrain, near Lille.
“Cachez ce sein que je ne saurais voir!“
A bust of ‘Marianne’ is essential in every formal office of
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