One of the greatest passages in the Bible:
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I know not,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
When
Continue reading →Yearly Archives: 2011
Jail Megrahi!
A growing chorus of people is calling for Abdel al-Megrahi, to be placed in gaol again.
Any regular of Private Eye would know that his original conviction was based on
Continue reading →His Judgment Cometh And That Right Soon
Is it me, or is there more than a passing physical similarity between former MP and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and the famously evil Warden Norton in “ Continue reading →
The Guardian Comment Network may damage your reputation
The Guardian has a new content sharing / aggregation project, the Guardian Comment Network, where they are republishing content from partner blog-sites, including Amanda Marcotte‘s Continue reading →
Supporting the Death Penalty? Not me (2 of 2)
This is the second part of my response to James Garry’s article ‘Supporting the Death Penalty‘ that appeared on the Anna Raccoon site last week. You can read the first installment
Continue reading →Hyperventilating Over Paedophilia
Paedophilia is an emotive subject; banned in ‘polite’ media circles, it has become virtually the exclusive province of the Blogosphere.
Every day – as Matt Wardman discovered when he took over
Continue reading →Granny became a Shooting Star
I’d have expected the inescapable Damian Thomson, who runs the Daily Telegraph blog operation (three million page impressions in a week, natch),
Continue reading →Credo: contra contemtio
This week, there was a bit of a Twitterstorm when Twitter user Lord Credo, who posed as a spin doctor for the Conservative Party was revealed to be something of a
Continue reading →Supporting the Death Penalty? Not me (1 of 2)
Some of you may have seen this Anna Raccoon article supporting the Death Penalty by James Garry of Politics on Toast.
This is
Continue reading →Small Beer.
Having just hosted the annual general meeting of the Raccoonteurs*, a rowdy affair at the best of times, I am not in the slightest surprised to discover that the average Briton will consume more than 5,800
Continue reading →In the Land of the Rising Scum
I’ve torched a shop in Croydon Town,
Its trading days are done,
Its flames have set the sky alight
And I’m famous in The Sun.
So don’t call me a failure,
Admire my nicked blue jeans,
My iPads, phones and trainers, Man,
And five new plasma
Goalkeepers – a Blunderful Life
The goalkeeper is probably the most under-valued player in professional football, perhaps because the signing of a new wide player or centre forward is always more likely to attract the excitement of supporters in the summer, selling
Continue reading →All In The Best Possible Taste.
The title ‘Speaker’s Wife’ is well on its way to becoming a synonym for ‘Vacuous Slapper’. Perhaps it is there already.
Such a coincidence though; no sooner is Max Clifford hired to control her public image
Continue reading →Total Politics Blog Awards
This is the last day of voting for the Total Politics Blog Awards. If you intend to vote, for Anna Raccoon or other sites, you have until midnight.
At this time of year Total Politics Magazine
Continue reading →Autism revisited
One of the defining features of Autism is the obsessive nature of repeat actions. Autistic children are quite capable of maintaining a week long smashing, grabbing, and screaming rage if they are prevented from carrying out some
Continue reading →Racial rioting
Anna on The Death Penalty.
The ‘State’ already has the death penalty. It uses it. This State. The United Kingdom.
Yes it does!
I have watched with grim fascination the debates occurring on this blog – for and against the death penalty
Continue reading →Supporting The Death Penalty
A Guest Post from James Garry.
On the 5th of August, DazPearce contributed an article to this organ entitled “Opposing the death penalty“.
Mr Pearce’s article, I feel,
Continue reading →Sponsor a Looter?
Abercrombie & Fitch has decided Jersey Shore’s cocktail of sex, alcohol, bragging and bad behaviour is harming its “aspirational” brand image and “may be distressing to many of our fans”.
It is reversing the normal rules
Continue reading →Fisking the brain–dead Loony Left.
Sometimes I despair. The following is doing the rounds on the left wing blogs to loud applause in the social media. I flatly refuse to link to it.
My comments in red italics.
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg: faux King Cnut
For tonight’s comedy post I’d like to (re)introduce Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, who is one of the prominent people in the Junior Common Room Revolutionary wing of the anticuts movement, head-in-the-clouds faction.
Continue reading →They Who Live by the Race Card Die by the Race Card
The following is a guest post by Lloyd Marcus.
Lloyd began his childhood in a Baltimore ghetto. He grew to manhood in the 1960s. He is an artist, singer, production designer and musical producer,
Continue reading →The Feckless Few.
You might imagine, listening to the morning news, that the ‘Feckless’ were a new phenomena. Some development of modern society that requires the combined thinking power of a dozen politico think tanks and a conference hall of
Continue reading →An Active Sense of Community
A Guest Post from Charles Crawford.
Almost the defining characteristic of an active sense of community is that it is only aroused when people perceive that the established structures
Continue reading →The Wrong Peasants are Revolting
I started writing this piece last week, having watched general low level vandalism and petty crime spreading across London on Sky, and then retiring to listen to the radio, sip a nice Shiraz and join in banter
Continue reading →The Gnu Songs
The Gnu song was mentioned in the comments on yesterday’s 10pm post, so I looked out the Muppets’ version of the Gnu song:
And the
Continue reading →Another One Bites The Dust in the Court of Protection
Dear Legal Profession,
What fun! I can remember a time when ‘litigants in person’ were mocked as the ‘afflicted’ by the legal profession. A nuisance. Didn’t understand the system. Not
Continue reading →Under Class v Working Class
I suspect that quite a few, although I hope not all, of the readers of this blog will just about remember “Not the Nine O’clock News”. In one of its classic sketches a professor of
Continue reading →Sliding Down the Greasy Pole.
From Kraków to Katowice, the rumours gathered strength. The streets of London were paved with gold; the British didn’t want to work; you could earn a year’s wages in a week – just sweeping the floors, washing
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