This is another subject that cannot actually be rationally discussed.
Any mention of “facts” will be met with an increasingly histrionic barrage of “counter-facts” and allegations of
Continue reading →This is another subject that cannot actually be rationally discussed.
Any mention of “facts” will be met with an increasingly histrionic barrage of “counter-facts” and allegations of
Continue reading →From NPR via Liberal Conspiracy’s sidebar:
A seemingly intoxicated moose has been discovered entangled in an apple tree by a stunned Swede.
Per Johansson says he heard a roar
Continue reading →(This is a Marmite post. Casey Kasem would love it for a trivia question, and it will probably put Jabba the Cat to sleep.)
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It is strange how many subtle changes can alter an entire national perspective.
The Britain I last lived in about 30 years ago was radically different from the Britain today.
Take Binism.
It seems
Continue reading →Shock statistics from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology claim that 164 million Europeans – 38.2% of the entire population of Europe are suffering from a mental disorder.
Given that 43% of Europeans voted in the
Continue reading →Reading of the latest Cameroid ‘big society’ project, accompanied by Prime Ministerial scoffing of ale and jubilation from the outraged ‘moral majority’, I am minded of an incident several years ago now, when a friend of mine
Continue reading →I give in. No longer will I try to make sense of this world. The entire country is nuts.
Two neighbours live in £1 million pound properties separated by a spacious courtyard – and I do
Continue reading →I idly wondered, in the early hours of this morning, where had the original advertising slogan come from? Susie Henry, who founded the Waldron, Allen, Henry & Thompson advertising agency for Legal and General, if you are
Continue reading →One of the defining features of the comments section of political blogs is the propensity for reasoned debate to slide into hysterical abuse. Frequently the comments can be better than the original blog posts as commentators relieve
Continue reading →Recently I’ve heard two stories of unexpected and dramatic visits from police, entirely separate from the admirably rapid follow-ups to alleged offences based during the recent mayhem on our streets.
A Welfare Check is when the
Continue reading →As my teenage daughter turned her eyes towards mine and held my gaze in her terror, it was then
Continue reading →Ambush Predator, a perennial selection in these stakes, takes on Libby Brooks down on Dale Farm. MummylonglegsX advocates the law of consequences in classic
Continue reading →I dare say you saw the story yesterday about Benedict Garrett, good looking, hunky, talented young teacher, who was found guilty of ‘unacceptable professional conduct’.
Benedict’s crime was that he didn’t just stand in front of
Continue reading →The Magistrate’s Court is one of our oldest institutions, the very embodiment of Cameroid’s Big Society. The devolvement of power and responsibility down to grass roots level.
‘Good and Lawful’ men have been charged with objectively
Continue reading →There can be no more emotive topic, nor one that more clearly underscores the villainy of government versus the sensitivity of anarchism than the difficult matter of abortion.
Nadine Dorries, bless her
Continue reading →A mini convention of Raccoonistas occurred the other weekend, with various contributors to the blog turning up at Madam La Raccoon’s “chateau” in south west France.
My chief contribution to this weekend was
Continue reading →‘Old man Dale had a Farm’, back in the days when farms were something you kept animals on and scraped a living from. He milked cows and herded sheep and did all manner of such things.
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The latest development in the relationship between MI6 and Muammar Gaddafi is a price of £1m placed on his head. Charles Crawford recounts the history of an ‘interesting’ relationship.
Soon after the US-led attack on Saddam Hussein began,
Continue reading →Today we learn that Britain’s finest, those lantern jawed, snake hipped men of Hereford and Worcester are on their hands and knees conducting a finger tip search of Labia’s mysterious hills, vales, and hidden crevices looking for
Continue reading →I saw something the other day, something utterly unremarkable in its banal common sense:
“Give tax breaks to manufacturing businesses in areas of high unemployment”
I mean, it’s obvious, isn’t it? When
Continue reading →There have now been a number of sentences set for so-called “Facebook crimes”; that is, attempts using Facebook and other social media to organise rioting, or looting, or other criminal activity.
Or, as has been claimed, joking about
Continue reading →Its never to late to learn – you too can be an object of fear to the authorities.
Keep up with your teenage children.
Only requires one moving finger, the rest of you can be as dormant as you like.
Bring the world down
Continue reading →This is a crosspost from Malpoet’s Weblog.
In the wake of the riots we were bombarded with competing claims about who controlled them. The police are sure
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Entries in the comments, please.
My starter for 10:
“The Winter’s Tale wasn’t set in Alaska, Honey.”
Continue reading →I decided not to comment on the biggest football story of the last seven days until the weekend was over, just to make sure that it actually was.
[Editorial Note: For cricket and other people who
Continue reading →I wrote this last night.
It was intended as an e-mail to a good friend, but dork that I am, I don’t have my e-mail password with me…. I have my computer, but no wi-fi connection.
While perusing the news in a most cantankerous frame of mind, I was suitably annoyed to come across this mindbendingly stupid idea from our Minister of Housing:
The government is offering councils financial
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Would anyone like to buy an Anna Raccoon mug to support the site?
There’s a bit of a story here – the first experiment in an idle moment
Continue reading →The e-petitions initiative is something that has clearly caught on, as demonstrated initially by the lively debate on the death penalty.
There has been another petition doing the rounds this month calling for
Continue reading →France has passed a Law about the habit of wearing Burkas (there’s a good background discussion here at Open
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