A determined and beady eye kept on Rachael
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Ducking Ridiculous!
I find myself living in the prime holiday destination for escapees from the bansturbator Hell of the US and the UK.
Bergerac was the centre of the French tobacco growing area. We have the Tobacco museum
Continue reading →The Shame of The Pride.
All stressed up and nowhere to go â theyâve spent months ironing their frocks, saving up for a full body wax, and moisturising their little tootsieâs, and now they are faced with a national disaster. Peter Tatchell
Continue reading →So who do we trust now?
Over the past 40 years there has been a systematic erosion of trust in the institutions we were brought up to respect.
The lessons of the Sunday Schools that we absorbed as children were shown by
Continue reading →Feed me, feed me not, feed me, feed me notâ¦!
What havoc is wrought by the readers of the Evening Standard? Forgive them, they know not what they do!
A brief three months ago, their hearts bled as they read of children with:
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Rendering unto Caesar
I should be hard pressed to imagine anything less interesting than the tax affairs of one Jimmy Carr*, a comedian â so Iâm told â of whom I had never heard till about two days ago, but, as
Continue reading →Out of the Closet, into Housing Benefit.
Much anguished fluttering of the bent-to-the-left petticoats this morning. It seems that the governmentâs decision to make housing benefit a financial helping hand for adults, rather than a free for all, is unfairly targeting âgaysâ.
Game of Thrones
Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleon
18 months ago, I was forced to retract a story on this site. That hurt; I am well known for careful research. I hadnât written the story myself, Andrew Withers had done that, and within hours
Continue reading →Assange Assiduities.
I once found myself at Stanstead Airport with £20 in English money to get rid of, and lo! Julian Assange’s ‘leaked’ (oh, the irony!) autobiography on special offer. Three hours of Ryanair delay, three hours of no
Continue reading →Who is bailing who out of the leaky boat?
Women and children first, so the mantra goes. It would certainly seem to be so in the case of Portugal.
Whilst I was double checking some facts before I wrote on Angola the other day,
Continue reading →Destitution in Modern Day Britain.
Can it be true? Are there really as many as 2.2 million households in Britain scraping by on as little as £41,000 a year? And having to feed two children on that as well?
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon engages in âAngolan discussionsâ¦â
Are you sitting comfortably children? I did promise you more African adventures.
Long before some of you were born, a couple of ex-soldiers of humble rank were sitting in their grotty flat over an Aldershot launderette,
Continue reading →Sad But Mad Lad
For various reasons I’m moving to my own personal blog.
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The real green energy
Green energy is not solar power and wind turbines. It’s the gradual improvements in electronics over the last thirty years. There’s probably been more saving of energy through efficicienes created through the invention of new devices than that created
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Overhead this morning on BBC breakfast (I know I shouldn’t listen to the statist propaganda, but I do need something to tell me the time as I have
Continue reading →76 Arrests led the big âinvadeââ¦
Seventy six a-rrests led the big âinvadeâ,
With a hundred and ten new laws close at hand,
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest statutory instruments;
The dream of every Fabian hand.
Seventy six
Continue reading →Science Fiction
It seems some commentators on AR have read a little science fiction if the comments on Ray Bradbury’s coda is anything to go by.
So what is it about SF (please don’t use the
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Threat level red, are you terrified yet?
Or do you think again, like a lonely man on his death bed?
Any danger weâre in is the result of a combination
Of stupidity and treason, we fail to use
State of the economy
As I understand the current economic situation, we’re not part of the Euro so we should be able to ride out it’s demise better than others.
But we have to be able to react to the
Continue reading →Black Swans and Economic Voodoo
Ever behind the curve, I read an article a couple of weeks ago about Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This is a bit late in the day, because he has some very important things to say,
Continue reading →On the road to nowhere
I have the last stone to go. I have shifted about 20 pounds, and got down to about 15 stone, which is about a stone over a reasonably fit âfighting weightâ for me.
I
Continue reading →London 2012 Olympic Torch Flames Going Postal
So you can’t afford an Official Olympic Torch from the 2012 Relay, complete with 8000 holes:
Representing the inspirational
Continue reading →A Sign of the Chimes.
Did you know that it was a young Maggie Thatcher, in her first job as a research chemist, who discovered how to infuse perfectly good âproperâ ice-cream with air and thus double the quantities and the profit? I didnât
Continue reading →Sortition and Democracy and Meritocarcy
Sortition sounds OK as an alternative method of electing MPs compared to our current system, and probably would work. But you’d also need put in place the same
Continue reading →James Callaghan PM â My Part in his Downfallâ¦!
Think back to the halcyon days of the 70s, the last time we had such a well-hung Parliament, when dead bodies were piling up in Liverpool, and rats held mass demonstrations beneath the statue of Winston Churchill â in
Continue reading →Snide
There are many things to like about living in Britain. The history, scenery, diversity and a largely benign environment are wonderful as are many other things.
Continue reading →Last one to leave, please turn off the lights
The infamous joke that could “the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights” was aimed at Neil Kinnock. The Sun used it as a headline because they believed that Labour’s policies would be
Continue reading →Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury who has just died, wrote the famous Fahrenheit 451 book which was about a dystopian future where books were outlawed because the pace of life had become quick and where
Continue reading →Represent!
It seems to me that most of my most futile political arguments are about that most sacred of cows, democracy. You cannot question its alleged virtues without being looked at as though you are advocating mass
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