The coalition must address the scandal of the care of the elderly.

George Osborne has been right to face the challenge of the deficit promptly and robustly. The coalition inherited a deficit problem

The Spelling Lady’s not for burning at the stake, just grovelling apologies. Little Jemima and Gabrielle can continue to frolic in the forest counting ladybirds, secure in the knowledge that whilst Daddy may have their trust

If for no other person than Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi.

I will personally administer the poison/pull the handle/switch on the current, whichever method is approved.

I will personally eat my Quaker principles – on behalf

A CRB check is now declared essential before you hire a newspaper boy; it is seen as the cure all for every possible risk of child abuse. So ferocious are the checks, so thorough, that even a nurse who

Or more properly taking the .003% of the King’s Shilling!

As some of you have observed over the past 24 hours, this site is now taking advertising. I have hesitated on this issue for a long time, fully

The Guardian has interspersed its continuous high pitched whine of ‘cuts, cuts, cuts – the world is coming to and end’, with endless articles over the past few days – and by endless I mean

The Minister for Climate Change, a Canute figure forever muttering ‘Back dastardly warming’ to himself; The Under-Secretary for the Rubber Band Cupboard; The Chief Executive of the National Committee on the Numerical Sequence of Egg Cartons; how

Caedmon’s Cat in ‘Why do you Blog?’

I blog during the course of my mouse-catching activities. I do so because I’m the only moggy in the area who’s interested enough to do it. Life is getting

Earlier in the week I posted a short article which touched briefly on the protests in Egypt and the way in which the internet had facilitated them: https://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/politics/the-real-big-society/

The will of the people, I

I am indebted to the acerbic genius that is Old Holborn (hobbies: “provocation, mischief” – his words not mine) for drawing my attention to the youtube video that I refer to below. I do not always

The Department of Communities and Local Govt have recently published these forgotten documents commissioned by the previous government but for some reason not released until now. It should be noted that the cost of