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Monthly Archives: February 2012

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Exclusive: Prime Minster refuses to confirm whether he colluded in horsepay.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 29, 2012

This is what happens when decent journalists are too scared to pay Old Bill for top notch stories – we end up with a media pawing at the ground and

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Come on Baby, do the Local Motion with me!

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by Anna Raccoon on February 29, 2012

Everybody’s doin’ a brand new walk now,
(Come on baby, do the local motion)
I know you’ll get to like it if you give it a chance

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Occupy Bye Bye

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by Matt Wardman on February 28, 2012

They’ve gone.

However, judging by the words of ‘Andy’, paraphrased from the Today Programme, they still don’t get it:

“I think it’s sad that

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Lord James of Blackheath – Wagging a Wondrous Tale.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 27, 2012

This is a long one – you might want to save it for after the pub on Friday night – it’ll make your eyes bleed just as effectively as a

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Guardian Editorial Chimpanzees

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by Matt Wardman on February 27, 2012

That word. Pah !

Yes – that one. Pah !

Three more times. Pah ! Pah ! Pah !

Good. Blood pressure reduced slightly.

Now,

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Cristina Odone. Ouch.

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by Matt Wardman on February 27, 2012

Now, I have no idea how Cristina Odone fits into the demonology or iconostasis of your average member of the Raccoon Arms clientele.

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Ken Livingstone of the One Percent

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by Matt Wardman on February 26, 2012

Ken Livingstone has been a little excoriating about bankers and other rich people avoiding what he thinks should be their taxes:

THESE rich bastards just don’t get it…No one should be allowed to

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Dr Eoin and Mr Brown

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by Matt Wardman on February 26, 2012

Everytime someone blinks Dr Eoin Clarke seems to put more nails into the coffin of his reputation as a coherent, never mind credible, commentator.

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Polly puts the kettle on…

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by Anna Raccoon on February 24, 2012

Nominally we are all “journalists” under the press code of practice, but this rough trade has none of the attributes of a “profession”. Instead of

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SNP Bullshit Bingo

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by Matt Wardman on February 22, 2012

Flippin’ ‘Eck and his chums are working their way through the world choosing Countries for Scotland to aspire to imitate.

As the selected paragons fall over one by one, ‘Eck

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Ms Raccoon pontificates….

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by Anna Raccoon on February 22, 2012

The supremacy of the Church over magic and superstition demanded that it should take over their functions ‘Everything that can be naturally done is done by God’ a 12th century

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‘I will survive’…in the worst possible taste.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 21, 2012

Well done Channel 5!

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Libel, Slander, Calumny and Vilification

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by Anna Raccoon on February 20, 2012

In common, I dare say, with many other Bloggers, we are e-mailed from time to time by ‘journalism students’. Usually we are as friendly and as helpful as

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British Pensioners and the Scottish Referendum.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 20, 2012

HM Government’s view of British Pensioners in mid-winter Aberdeen?

The argument is that the economic, social and political policies which can and would be pursued by an independent Scotland

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At the going down and rising of The Sun

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by Gildas the Monk on February 19, 2012

The police have been rounding up and shooting journalists from “The Sun”. Actually that is a lie. But they have been hauled in en masse by the Boys and Girls in Blue, and generally grilled (about

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A policeman’s lot is not a rhyming one…

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by Anna Raccoon on February 19, 2012

When a Rozzer’s not engaged in his employment
Or writing up his pension plan
His capacity for spouting doggerel
Should be just as good as any other man
His desire to rest he must smother
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Keeping all options on the table

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by Criminonymous on February 18, 2012

As you know, Dr. Ahmadinejad
The pleas of the anti-war majority in the West, here
Have consistently fallen on deaf ears
“Why bring war when Iran is asking for peace?” we pry
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Pedestrianise the Olympic Zil Lanes

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by Matt Wardman on February 17, 2012

The gents and ladies from the Olympic 5 Ring Circus have been kind enough to force our Government to pass laws to allow the 80,000 members of the Olympic ”family’

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Overheard: a medical ethics expert

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by Simon Gibbs on February 17, 2012

On a train to Watford (at about Bushey) I overheard a conversation between an older grey haired gentleman and his female junior as they caught up on the issues of

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Reasons to be Chairful

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by Matt Wardman on February 16, 2012

For 4 years I worked in High Wycombe, the one-time capital of the world chair industry, due to Buckinghamshire beechwoods and skilled craftsmen.

In Gloucester they roll cheeses down

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Capitalism is Fixing It. Slowly.

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by Matt Wardman on February 15, 2012

We’re in the middle of a small orgy of kneejerk (or jerk-kneeing, if you prefer) bashing of bankers with self-inflated banker-bonkers, and not a few people trying to keep the

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Time for Republic Bye Byes?

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by Matt Wardman on February 14, 2012

The oldest human being recorded in modern times was Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived from 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997.

During

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Occupy London, Summarised

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by Matt Wardman on February 14, 2012

Brilliant. The best art is serendipitous. via @VorianK
    occupy london, occupylsx, occupy st pauls

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Occupy Affordable Houses. Again?

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by Matt Wardman on February 13, 2012

Sigh. Here we go again.

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News of the World Disinterred

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by Anna Raccoon on February 13, 2012

Is there any reputation so putrid, so tarnished, that it cannot be further damaged? Gordon Brown excepted, I suspect not.

A boulder has been pushed away from the cave into which the poor old News of

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A little local difficulty for Christianity?

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by Gildas the Monk on February 12, 2012

“Christianity on the rack as Judge bans public prayer” screamed the headline in The Times on Saturday. This in the light of the decision of Mr Justice Ouseley in

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Reinventing the Wheel.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 11, 2012

Ever since Oliver Cromwell galloped across the Fens to Cambridge in 1640, politicians have been obsessed with spending money to ‘improve’ transport to that city.

The

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Keep on Smoking.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 10, 2012

It’s official. There is a peril more likely to carry you off to your maker in the wee small hours of the morn than smoking. It must be so, the

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On The Fall Of Fabio Capello.

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by Gildas the Monk on February 9, 2012

AND LO!

The kingdom of Ing-er-land was

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Guardian Datablog Ooops: Windfarms in the UK

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by Matt Wardman on February 8, 2012

Brilliant data journalism from Simon Rogers at the Guardian Datablog:

Every windfarm mapped – and the MPs who hate them

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