Though in truth, you should be mighty afeard; Calibans’ ‘thousand twangling instruments’ are in full throttle and care not how they put at risk our hard won and historic rights to fair judgement by our peers.
In the light of
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‘Thackerism’™ and the ‘Long March’.
Rudi Dutschke coined the phrase ‘Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen’ – ‘The Long Walk through the Institutions’ to describe his desired outcome of governmental institutions being infiltrated by those who shared his belief in Marxism and would be in a position to influence future generations;
Continue reading →There is no storm that does not pass
Twitter is a curious phenomenon. Leaving aside all the trolling and general idiocy that can go on, there is wit, there is expression, there is immediacy and there is social contact. I have become personally engaged with quite
Continue reading →Updated! – Trial by Posthumous Innuendo.
Following last night’s episode of ‘Exposure’, the prosecution’s case for the demonisation of Jimmy Savile was completed in the sense that the audience have been invited to give their verdict. No doubt if we fail to give the required verdict, the
Continue reading →Re-inventing the wheel…
The Justice secretary, Chris Grayling has come up with a corker of a wheel re-invention this morning.
Grayling says he wants “old lags”, including former gang members,
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Eight.
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy – this entire shebang grows more bizzarre by the hour, if not by the minute.
Overnight, a woman called Andrea Davison has emerged to claim that she was also at Duncroft, and there she
Continue reading →Competition. Fake Journalist? – Meet Fake Charity!
If you were in the business of churning out dubious statements, relying on innuendo, gossip and unsubstantiated claims, meddling with statistics – what is the one award, the one badge
Continue reading →Girl in a Box.
This week I shall say a prayer for the late Elizabeth Mitchell, and maybe go to mass for her. You will probably never have heard of her. I had not either, until last week.
Elizabeth
Continue reading →The Baird of Northumbria.
Hear the voice of the Baird!
- Who present, past, and future sees;
- Whose ears have heard,
- The voters word,
- That walks among the PCCs…
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- Who present, past, and future sees;
The British Broadcasting Corporation – a Monument to Paedophilia.
In 1932, the British Broadcasting Corporation, pride of the British people, commissioned the architect Lieutenant Colonel G. Val Myer, to design a building as their corporate headquarters which would embody the spirit of the organisation as they pushed their version of
Continue reading →Is God Unemployed Now?
I ask because of a headline from the Independent this morning that I find stunning.
‘Brain damaged patient allowed to die with dignity’, Judge rules.
It is the way the article is worded that interests me
Continue reading →It’s the Demographics, Stupid.
It has been an interesting week for the Establishment. And a bad one for the Republicans.
The Republicans lost an election because there are too many Hispanic, black and female voters and too few white, working and lower middle
Continue reading →The Bureau for Instigative Churnalism.
in·sti·gate (n
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tr.v. in·sti·gat·ed, in·sti·gat·ing, in·sti·gates
1. To urge on; goad.
2. To stir up; foment.
It is said that success has many Fathers whilst failure is an orphan – surely no foundling was so swiftly denounced as ‘no son of mine’ than the grandiosely named Bureau
Continue reading →Eat My Tax
Denmark has introduced what is believed to be the world’s first fat tax – a surcharge on foods that
Continue reading →News-shite, and the perfect storm.
When Peter Rippon made the fateful decision not to allow broadcast of Meirion Jones’ documentary on the alleged sexual abuse of girls at the Approved School headed by his aunt, it was the first full bodied drop of rain in what
Continue reading →Magical Mystery Tour…
So, with barely a couple of hours warning, Mr G informed me that we would be going to Paris for the week-end and invited me to pack ‘some warmer clothes’ since it might be colder up there than the
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Seven.
Evening all; pull up a chair and pin your ears back.
I have, this evening, had a long talk with Miss Margaret Jones, headmistress of Duncroft for many years. It was almost 50 years since we had spoken
Continue reading →No! THIS is Sparta – Part 2: Agoge!
It has been a very serious week here at the Raccoon Arms, but our learned editor Anna kindly agreed to let your humble scribe burble on with one of my historical rambles, which are
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Six.
The opening sequence of the Panorama film featuring the alleged sexual abuse of children at Duncroft lingered on a huge and imposing set of Victorian iron gates. Half open, they conjured up an image of a peek inside a forbidden and
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Five.
Perhaps we should be renaming the BBC; instead of the friendly ’Aunty Beeb’ conjuring up a safe pair of trustworthy womanly hands, would ‘Uncle Beeb’ with all the connotations of the furtive, fiddling Uncle, whose lap you avoid sitting on, be more suitable? It
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Four.
First some corrections from yesterday – I was very tired and didn’t proof read properly; dining is spelt dining, not dinning; I’m has got an m after the apostrophe; I was 16 and coming up to my 17th birthday
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Three.
Duncroft! I never thought I would hear that name again – and suddenly it is on everybody’s lips! It is nearly 50 years ago that the car I was in drew up outside that familiar facade and I prepared to enter yet another
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Two
Where was I? Oh, yes, Cumberlow Lodge, South Norwood. Politely described as a ‘children’s home’ – no doubt to honour the strictures of the will of the Victorian philanthropist, W E Stanley, who had left his much loved home
Continue reading →Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part One.
The blog post that won’t go away is still bouncing around in my head; the Sunday newspapers today have further infuriated me – and after long talks with Mr G, I have made the decision to publish.
Continue reading →Paws for Thought.
THAT is one very full inbox…
I am touched, genuinely. I had thought that putting up a jokey message in place of the blog would reassure you that I was OK, and just taking a rest. I underestimated how many of you
Continue reading →New Squatter Law: Starting to Work
Just over a month ago, Squatting in a residential premises became a criminal offence under Section 144 of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) 2012. We have been subjected to a series of misleading
Continue reading →To Huhne it May Concern….
Just as the CPS finally reach the starting blocks regarding the trial of Chris Huhne for allegedly forcing his wife to take his speeding points…
The
Continue reading →Is there a Worker in the House?
You know when you are reading a blog post and a phrase jumps out at you, reforms in letters three foot high, and won’t leave your brain for days afterwards? Round and round it goes, giving you no peace.
Continue reading →Of Freedoms Lost.
The Norfolk of 30 years ago was a wild and blustery place. The A.11 a single lane traffic jam of lorries grinding their way up to the container port at Lowestoft past wide open fields.
Just as well, so difficult was
Continue reading →Protect your Freedom – Please retweet and respond!
So many posts to be written today – I must do them in order of importance. This one is important.
I am indebted to my faithful reader who drew my attention to the original case.
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