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Monthly Archives: January 2013

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Conservophobia

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by Chris on January 31, 2013

In clinical psychology, a phobia is defined as an unreasonable, exaggerated fear of an object or situation, causing anxiety and distress. Typically, phobias are distinguished from genuine fears by their irrationality: think of your great-aunt Molly, who used

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New Home Office Citizenship Test – Some Question They Don’t Want You To See

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by Randy Hack on January 29, 2013

1. Which famous manuscript crucial to Britain’s democracy and values was signed at Runnymede?

a. Magna Carta

b. Wind in the Willows

c. “Hello” Magazine

2. Which ancient National Treasure is now kept under armed guard in the Tower

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Love and Marriage, more or less than a legal contract?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 29, 2013

Nietzsche, the German philosopher, said that marriage was ‘the will that moves two to create the one which is more than those who created it’.

Throughout history, human beings have ignored the cold words of the

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Positive Discrimination, Political Correctness and Plod.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 28, 2013

Theresa May is due to announce this week that in future, you can become a Superintendent or Inspector in the Police Farce without any prior experience of policing. It’s called Direct Entry, possibly from the hallowed grounds of Kidderminster University’s Media Studies Department.

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Just how good is “The Glums?”

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by Gildas the Monk on January 27, 2013

In the dim recesses of my memory, quite possibly falsely, I seem to recollect watching an interview with the late and great actor Sir Laurence Olivier in which he made certain observations about playing the role

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Iron John and the Union Bosses

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by Matt Wardman on January 26, 2013


During the MP Expenses farrago, John Mann MP (Labour, Bassetlaw) was one of a relatively small number who impressed me by their performance.

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Sisters Merciless.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 25, 2013

Two fine young women, photographed in time-honoured fashion with the ubiquitous smiling policeman outside the home of the British Prime Minister. It is a scene impossible today; the days when disagreeing with the prevailing politics meant writing

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The inanimate object now preying on you…

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by Anna Raccoon on January 24, 2013

It’s a tough life for the posh poor. That’s not the posh who are poor, that’s the poor who are posh. They have a taxpayer out hard at work providing their daily bread for them, and an EU migrant

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Hewlett-Packard update…

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2013

Unbelievably, Hewlett-Packard monitor all media and social media – and picked up on my blog post yesterday within a couple of hours.

They both e-mailed the blog, and posted messages on my Twitter timeline

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Cameron, yawn!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2013

So he has finally found the venue where he is prepared to have a camera pointed at him. The curtains behind the lectern at the Dutch venue was too far to travel when he was busy; the curtains behind his desk

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HP Sauce and an Apple.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 22, 2013

Being a cautious soul, when I bought my new iMac, I double checked with the Apple store in Paris to ensure that all my software and hardware would continue to operate with my new computer. Looked up

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The Tantalisingly Tantric Cameron!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 20, 2013

When it comes to getting screwed by our present Prime Minister we have to be patient.

No Gordon Brown style wham-bam-thank-you Ma’am.

First he graciously teased us with a ‘I might tell some Dutch academics on Friday’,

Then it was a ‘Hang on a minute, Algeria’s

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Cross Words on a Sunday.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 20, 2013

And as the snow lies crisp and even…what will you be doing today?

One of the few pleasures of Olde Englande that I genuinely miss and am unable to replicate in any form here in the Dordogne – even Baked

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A Cyclo-Path crashes and burns…

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by Gildas the Monk on January 19, 2013

Quite some years ago, a friend recommended that I should read Lance Armstrong’s autobiography, “It’s Not About The Bike.”

For many, including me at the time, it was an inspiring book. It chronicled Armstrong’s childhood,

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Cis-ters, Cis-ters, we will never be devoted Cis-ters…

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by Anna Raccoon on January 18, 2013

I am suffering from a monumental bout of cis-titus, I have been reading extensively on the subject for 24 hours – and found myself in a world of such venom, such rancor, such toxic spleen, that I am truly shocked.

Let me

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When Spamalot met Murphalot

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by Matt Wardman on January 17, 2013

Said Murphalot of Spamalot (March 12 2012):

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When Men were Men…

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by Anna Raccoon on January 17, 2013

T’is true that there is nothing new in the world – we have been down this path of retrospectively denouncing celebrities, judging them by modern mores, before.

‘Falcon’ came from a privileged background – but scarcely led a privileged life. His Father had inherited a

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Shergar in the Burger?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 16, 2013

Argggh! The Foodie’s Night Mare…the Galloping Gourmet Burger!

The doe-eyed equine substitue-husband that the righteous have no objection to having boiled up to glue their dinning chair together has turned up on their dinner plate.

They are aghast! Knackered

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The Many Apologies of Dr Eoin Clarke (Phd, Plnkr, BF)

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by Matt Wardman on January 13, 2013

This post is an archive of all Dr Eoin Clarke’s multifarious apologies for defamation, with some commentary.

I have posted them here, just in case Dr Eoin Clarke

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The End is Nigh!

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by Gildas the Monk on January 13, 2013

So, at last, the end is nigh. I have reached the end of my Odyssey through the merciless killer that was the Black Death. A killer, and, if I am correct, one which was both more

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Who Let the Dogs Out?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 11, 2013

Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war,

that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

William Shakespeare

I have been pondering this matter for days now, since

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Nonce Sense.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 11, 2013

I am indebted to my commentator, DtP, for suggesting the title – superb! Wish I had thought of it myself.

First the Yewtree report. This long awaited £450,000 worth of expensive police time has succeeded in uniting

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Competition – The Policeman’s Bawl…

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by Anna Raccoon on January 10, 2013

My, but the Police are unhappy this morning. Bawling their eyes out in fact.

The Assistant Commissioner, Simon Byrne, has described Detectives as ‘Constables in T-shirts and jeans’ thereby upsetting everyone. The detectives are upset at the insinuation that they are no better than your ‘ornery, plodding

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Vera Baird and the Ineptocracy

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by Matt Wardman on January 9, 2013

We maintain a healthy interest in the Life and Times of Vera Baird, known as the ‘Towering Inferno’ (apparently she explodes when insufficiently respected).

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Alex Jones shoots Piers Morgan down in Flames… excellent stuff!!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 8, 2013

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Child Abuse.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 7, 2013

I try, I really do try, to get worked up over whether Stuart Hall kissed a 13 year old on the lips 20 years ago. Perhaps it did ruin her entire life. Maybe she was so traumatised

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A question for Nigel Farage – Has the UK got room for another million people?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 7, 2013

Are there houses for them all? How will the roads fare with another half million or so cars on the road?

Could the hospitals cope? – a particularly pertinent question given that many of them suffer from health problems…will the GPs surgeries be able to

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Danse Macabre: The Black Death Part 3

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by Gildas the Monk on January 6, 2013

“Death is Coming”

As regular readers will know, just before Christmas I started an amateur investigation into the so-called “Black Death”, the deadly plague of unparalleled ferocity and virulence that spread across Europe, Britain and

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading – Birthday Edition!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 5, 2013

And indeed it is – the Birthday Edition! For this noisy, brawling, lusty blog is four years old today.

2,700 posts over those four years – 1,700 of them I find I have written…an average of

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I am the very model of the Paedo-finder General.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 3, 2013

I am the very model of the Paedo-finder General,
I’m investigating celebrities, and I’m chastely puritanical,
I twat on Twitter and with privacy I’m economical;
I’ve learned to speak at conferences, colloquia and seminars
I’ve even sent impassioned pleas to European commissars
I never

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