A recent OutspokenRabbit post (kindly crossed by the good people at Anna Raccoon) – concerned ‘Orient for a Fiver‘, a behind the scenes film which provided an insight into a club enduring serious hardship.
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Just for a laugh.
Go on, just for a laugh. Adopt a fetching lisp, dress in a fey fashion, admit to past employment as a Roman Catholic trainee priest – and try and get yourself a job as a child minder.
Reaching for Sky.
What the Hell are Sky playing at?
I’ve just got home and turned on the TV, only to find that Sky are running a live interview with four masked ‘rioters’ bragging of their spoils from the riots.
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Multiplication of division
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How to create a secure password
“Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess.” You can also view a
Continue reading →The Gilded ‘Deprived’
Among the accused was, for instance, Laura Johnson, the 19-year-old daughter of a successful company director. She lives in a detached converted farmhouse in Orpington, Kent, with extensive grounds and a tennis court.
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Panic on the Streets of Tottenham – Enfield, Brixton, Walthamstow – I Wonder to Myself..
Violence, looting, buses and cars on fire, petrol bombs being launched at patrol cars – while what has happened between Friday and Sunday in North London is relatively small fry when compared to the riots
Continue reading →Anna Raccoon goes Looting
I kid you not, the esteemed landlady of the Raccoon Arms has been caught in the act.
We have to be sympathetic.
I hear a rumour that the post-operative diet prevents even the
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Fantasy Crime
Violence, criminality, civil disobedience and of course death play natural roles in many works of fiction, be they films, literature or drama. The reason that this formula has stood the test of time and remains as prominent a
Continue reading →The Last Honky in Brixton.
With impeccable timing, the IPCC informed the panting Sky newscasters that the ‘firearm found at the scene hadn’t been fired’, just as Sky were preparing their nightly ‘roll-up, roll-up, all the fun of the fair’ broadcast of
Continue reading →The Blackberry Uprising – UPDATED
Tunisia had its Jasmine Uprising; the Guardian is crowing that the Metropolitan Police were behind the times in not knowing that London was undergoing the Blackberry Uprising.
Unlike the ‘down wiv’ da yoof’ Guardian journalists.
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Police Helicopters over Tottenham
An eerily beautiful time-lapse video showing the fires in Tottenham, and police helicopters overhead.
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Youtube link.
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United by the Cenotaph.
Two very disparate characters, both male, though I hesitate to refer to both of them as ‘men’. Only one is deserving of that denomination.
Two men in two different prisons. One in Wandsworth prison, one in
Continue reading →Defending the Indefensible?
Various posts and comments I have read over the past few days appear to argue that our police service is institutionally murderous, untrustworthy, and naturally racist.
Continue reading →Gangsta cRap.
Ter’ast yer know man, der finger shot mi bruvver, an he ain’t got no reason ter do dat. Mi bruv only fired off a couple a’ rounds to warn der Babylon dat he ain’t got no business
Continue reading →Laurie Penny vs John Cooper QC
This is a short segment where Laurie Penny debated with John Cooper QC on Radio 5 about whether the sentences imposed on Charlie Jonnie Marbles and Gilmour was excessive, and – if so – why.
I see no riots!
It’s always a joy to turn to the quality Sunday papers for informed well researched journalism and up to the minute information….or you could read the
Continue reading →Anna Raccoon latest news (Updated)
We’ve heard from the Boss again.
Anna has been back in hospital for a couple of days for a follow-up, and should be back home early next week.
Anna’s tumour taken out a couple of weeks ago has been analysed in
Continue reading →Where did you get that hat?
Opposing the death penalty
The Capital Punishment debate is not one of your typical emotion vs reason jousts that seem to be fought on a frequent basis in this day and age. While the argument against the death penalty (with which
Continue reading →Guido Fawkes on the Death Penalty
Following the Coalition’s launch of an overhauled E-Petitions facility, with the potential of petitions with 100,000 signatures being debated in the House of Commons.
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Going downhill very quickly
After a couple of days of mainly serious postings on Anna Raccoon, this video is just what it says on the tin.
It is not recommended for consumption with your dinner.
Continue reading →Coming for the Anarchists
“The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common
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Fear of Raccoons
Who’s scared of the Raccoon?
Many people have phobias. The phobia about the number 13 is Triskaidekaphobia whilst Friday the 13 is Paraskevidekatriaphobia. In Asian countries it isn’t 13 that’s an unlucky number but 4 and it
Continue reading →Professional Suicide and ‘I want to be alone’.
I like people who do things properly, put the research into the project, take their time, check everything out thoroughly – and then execute their task with skill and aplomb.
Thus I find Richard Handl an
Continue reading →Echoes of Amy Winehouse
This post is a first guest article from Ellee Seymour, who blogs at elleeseymour.com.
I’m playing Amy’s poignant Back to Black as I write this.
We have read
Continue reading →Simple Pieman
Simple Pieman met a newsman,
Following a dare,
Says Simple Pieman to the newsman,
For your views, I do not care.
Says the newsman to Simple Pieman,
Allow my wife to show you how;
To land a pretty punch,
– and on the floor you cower.
Simple
Continue reading →Jason Owen – Capital Punishment Icon?
If there is a simple visual answer to the capital punishment conundrum, then it will emerge – in the shape of Jason Owen – blinking into the daylight on this coming Friday
Continue reading →And why did you miss Stuart Broad’s Hat-trick?
In the Trent Bridge Test Match, Stuart Broad scored took (*) a hat-trick on the way to bowling figures of 5 wickets for zero runs.
(*) I was clean bowled by
Continue reading →Ten Reasons against the Death Penalty
1 Timothy Evans – Executed on 9/3/1950 for killing his daughter at 10 Rillington Place. His neighbour John Reginald Halliday Christie was executed on 15/7/1953 for the crime after being found to be a
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