When the Saxons first ventured up the stretch of water we know as the River Stour, the surrounding land was an unspoilt wilderness of fertile land and wild fowl.
The settlement that came to be known
Continue reading →Monthly Archives: July 2013
Twitter, Twatter, Twotterâ¦and Thumb Gymnastics.
The Twitterati. The word has even made it into the Oxford dictionary. Because nobody ever wrote anything down until humans learnt to dance a jig on double jointed thumbpoint whilst having breakfast with a lover that they
Continue reading →Puerile Savile and the Mexican Staring Frog.
What arrant nonsense have the hacks that write our Tabloids âPenny Dreadfulsâ come up with now? What balderdash-on-stilts is served today?
When the Sunday Pictorial was launched in 1915, Lord Rothermere said that the idea was
Continue reading →Wonga Conga.
It has been quite a good week for the Justin Welby, the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. Quite unexpectedly and out of the blue, he launched his attack on so called âpay day loanâ companies, such as
Continue reading →James Alexander Gordon sadly retires
The most poignant news of the week for me was that of the retirement of James Alexander Gordon. Many Raccoonistas have something of an aversion to sport, but Gordon was a man who rose far above mere sport,
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Jackcart on a more digestible Libertarianism for general consumption. Antimisandry on Oprah and foreskins…. Captain Ranty on Paedos and their protectors. Continue reading → Workshy Britain?
Stuart Hall and that Guilty Plea.
Today, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, sitting with Justice Rafferty and Justice Macur, will decide whether the 15-month jail term that Stuart Hall received after pleading guilty to 14 counts of indecent assault, on girls as young
Oh Come All Ye Debt-full,
Feckless, Unrepentant,
O come ye, O come ye to Welby.com
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Tallymen;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ, Good Lordâ¦.the bloody worldâs gone mad.
Jesus
Continue reading →Exclusive â Austerity is Working!
Whether you believe that austerity IS working or not depends on your definition of a desirable outcome. If it was to ensure that the âtrickle down effectâ relieved poverty amongst the sofa resident young, or poured more
Continue reading →The Other Side of âExposureâ â The Real Victims of the Jimmy Savile Story.
Before I started writing this, I played a segment of âExposureâ back to myself. Within the first few minutes I was listening to yet another lie â the story of âSarahâ allegedly portrayed by an actress both
Continue reading →Labour Day! Royal Baby Special! Name Games!
It is on its way! And by the time of posting may well be with us, in what the occasionally (only very occasionally) waggish Piers Morgan called on twitter âan Ashes birthâ â over by tea
Continue reading →Cami-knickers!
Last week, a focus group of Dentistâs assistants in Sunderland told Cami-knickersâ re-election agent that pensioners had had it too good for too long â before the week was out we had sound bites galore as to
Continue reading →A New Role for Our Glorious NHS?
Eight years ago, James Adams was a male nurse working with âvulnerable adultsâ.
Something occurred in his workplace, we are not told what, which resulted in him uttering a âswear wordâ directed at one of his
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Magda Romanska – a long post, and an excellent read – ‘How I Survived Socialism’!
Duff and Nonsense on Damn statistics.
Macheath on true love 2013 style
Continue reading →Britain on DaftCon 2 alert!
Good Heavens Britain! Did the clouds part and the sun peek through for five minutes? Every newspaper in hysteria mode!
Mothers âmortifiedâ because they thought they could put a four week old baby out to bake on a
Continue reading →Turned out Sunny Hundal again!
Cracked Nest-egg Syndrome.
Long ago, Equitable Life had a canny scheme. âGive us your money now, and weâll give it back to you with a bit extra when you are olderâ. And lo! many wealthy people with money to spare
Continue reading →Tractor Stats and the NHS
Lately I have been frothing a lot and jiggling about in a most agitated manner. Some have put this down to the hot weather â most unexpected in a summer â coupled with too much excitement
Continue reading →Zimmerman Framed.
Who knew that Trayvon Martin had morphed from this angelic picture of a 12-year-old into a 6â2â³ 17-year-old body builder? Were there no up to date photographs of him to plaster the country with? No matter, he has
Continue reading →Saturday Night Posts Worth Reading…
One woman takes on the Daily Mail @ Dave’s Blog. Do watch the video. http://youtu.be/RRWp4B0qsW8?t=34s Gin Lane Gazette proving that sexual shenanigans are nothing new. Continue reading → The misery hiding behind the Savile headlines.
I spoke yesterday of the vast volume of mail I am receiving, since starting to write of the Savile case. Some makes me angry beyond belief â and as if by magic, one such arrived overnight. The writer is
Continue reading →Some positive progress for a changeâ¦
I had not thought when I first put pen to paper on the Savile affair, that it would still be lustily gorging every spare moment of my time months later. I doubt very much that the handful of 70s
Continue reading →Whole Life Tariffs and the European Court of Human Rights.
Death twitches my ear. âLive,â he says, âI am coming.â
~ Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Minor Poems, Copa
âJam tomorrowâ is the meme that gets us all through today. It is what makes us say to ourselves âfive
Continue reading →Perception, Deception, and Misconception.
Several weeks ago, the Daily Mail ran a story concerning two women who had âfleecedâ their aunt of £200,000. The Mail gleefully listed the Rolex watches and named the designer handbags the women had bought,
Continue reading →Pants!
The Urban Dictionary describes the word âPantsâ thus: Adj. British slang. Not good; total crap; nonsense; rubbish; bad; woefully inadequate; useless; a waste of time and space.
I just thought Iâd mention that before
Continue reading →Oy! You Left Something Behind Abu Omar!
Abu Omar ibn Mahmoud ibn Othman al-Filistini used to live in a dusty fly blown house in downtown Amman. He shared the house with his wife, three children, his elderly parents, and 18 other individuals all related by
Continue reading →Help me find my G-Spot!
Dear People of the Internet and Raccoon Readers,
I am writing to you in search of help and advice and consolation, because it seems that I have lost, or rather been locked out of what
Continue reading →It Was 25 Years Agoâ¦
As I write, the collective minds of most of the worldâs news organisations are nervously eyeing their holiday bookings and remaining within travelling distance of an airport as they wait to go into full-on tribute mode as Nelson Mandela
Continue reading →Hey! You! Get Off of my Shroud!
Ohrwürmer, thatâs Tom Watsonâs problem. Ohrwürmer.
There he was at Glastonbury, not a mirror in sight, snapping his fingers and striking the âattitudeâ, quite convinced that he was still an idealistic 18-year-old. The charismatic rhetorical odes to
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