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
Continue reading →Exclusive: Prime Minster refuses to confirm whether he colluded in horsepay.
Come on Baby, do the Local Motion with me!
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
Occupy Bye Bye
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
Continue reading →Lord James of Blackheath – Wagging a Wondrous Tale.
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
Continue reading →Guardian Editorial Chimpanzees
That word. Pah !
Yes – that one. Pah !
Three more times. Pah ! Pah ! Pah !
Good. Blood pressure reduced slightly.
Now,
Continue reading →Cristina Odone. Ouch.
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
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
Continue reading →Dr Eoin and Mr Brown
Everytime someone blinks Dr Eoin Clarke seems to put more nails into the coffin of his reputation as a coherent, never mind credible, commentator.
Continue reading →Polly puts the kettle on…
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
Continue reading →SNP Bullshit Bingo
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
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon pontificates….
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
Continue reading →‘I will survive’…in the worst possible taste.
Libel, Slander, Calumny and Vilification
British Pensioners and the Scottish Referendum.
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
Continue reading →At the going down and rising of The Sun
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
Continue reading →A policeman’s lot is not a rhyming one…
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
Keeping all options on the table
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
Pedestrianise the Olympic Zil Lanes
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’
Continue reading →Overheard: a medical ethics expert
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
Continue reading →Reasons to be Chairful
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
Continue reading →Capitalism is Fixing It. Slowly.
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
Continue reading →Time for Republic Bye Byes?
The oldest human being recorded in modern times was Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived from 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997.
During
Continue reading →Occupy London, Summarised
Brilliant. The best art is serendipitous. via @VorianK
occupy london, occupylsx, occupy st pauls
Occupy Affordable Houses. Again?
Sigh. Here we go again.
News of the World Disinterred
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
Continue reading →A little local difficulty for Christianity?
“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
Continue reading →Reinventing the Wheel.
The
Continue reading →Keep on Smoking.
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
Continue reading →On The Fall Of Fabio Capello.
Guardian Datablog Ooops: Windfarms in the UK
Brilliant data journalism from Simon Rogers at the Guardian Datablog:
Every windfarm mapped – and the MPs who hate themContinue reading →