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Yearly Archives: 2014

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Another Country

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by Petunia Winegum on December 31, 2014

Whilst some of you reading this will probably be nursing and cursing a bit of a hangover tomorrow, those amongst us who harbour a curiosity about political history tend to find the most anticipated aspect of a New Year to

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Shall I number the words for Thee?

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by Anna Raccoon on December 28, 2014

I was intrigued by the comments on the numbered words of the Sunday post – ‘Lost Lexicon of England’ – within a few hours it had reached 150

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25 Hour News Review of 2014

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by Petunia Winegum on December 27, 2014

An hour-long look back at the key events of the year in the usual 25 Hour News style… Petunia Winegum

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The Sunday Post: A Lost Lexicon of England

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by Petunia Winegum on December 21, 2014

Arising out of an email exchange around a couple of months ago, this first ‘collaborative piece’ between our esteemed albeit semi-retired landlady and her heir lists 100 misplaced words. They’re in no particular order and are either ones you either don’t

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25- Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 20, 2014

The Last Communist City by Michael Totten. Marilyn Stowe on Media Access to the Family Courts. Old Holborn on Humouring the Humourless. Archbishop Cranmer – Continue reading →

Sony with the Grinch on top.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 19, 2014

Is it really in the ‘public interest’ that we should know that a film producer we had never heard of, thought an actress that we don’t much care for, ‘a minimally talented brat’?

I ask, because

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London Town is Falling Down

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by Petunia Winegum on December 18, 2014

Doctor Samuel Johnson once provided a characteristically vivid description of some of the rather more…erm…slapdash construction work in London, painting a portrait of streets where ‘falling houses thunder on your head’, reflecting the fact that it was not

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Essence of Anglia.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 17, 2014

I had not thought that I should ever suffer from homesickness. Not once seven years had passed since I left home – and certainly not after I returned. But I have.

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Fierce Pearce and the Fake Sheikh.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 16, 2014

Hell hath no fury like an electorate that gets what it said it wanted.

His Honour Magistrate Darryl John Pearce is the Australian magistrate accorded second billing in the New South Wales annual review as a mark

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Wake Me Up on May 7

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by Petunia Winegum on December 15, 2014

QUESTION: When is a government not an effective vehicle for getting things done? ANSWER: When it is locked in a fixed five-year term.

The absence of flexibility in the American Presidential system means either death or

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The Sunday Post: A Nation Groomed?

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by Retrocool73. on December 14, 2014

I was recently pondering why I feel so alienated and apart from society. It was only more or less just ten years ago that I was still attending mainstream nightclubs, under my own volition, without feeling as if

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on December 13, 2014

A reflection on the British legal system’s continuing fascination with the 1970s… http://jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/fadle-to-black.html#!/2014/12/fadle-to-black.html

And another surreal take on the same decade (though not much odder than some recent

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Criminal History

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by Petunia Winegum on December 12, 2014

Clair Tiltman was a 16-year-old schoolgirl who had a close encounter with an older man over twenty years ago, one that resulted in a conviction for that man yesterday. If you think you know where I’m

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Mother and Child Reunion

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by Petunia Winegum on December 11, 2014

A century on from the Suffragettes and almost half-a-century on from the second wave of feminism that proved so problematic for the brassiere industry, one would have imagined womanhood had progressed way beyond two archetypes that

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Credit Where Credit’s Due

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by Petunia Winegum on December 10, 2014

My name is Petunia Winegum and I’ve never had a debt in my life. One of those statements is true, and as this essay is not about nom-de-plumes, I take it you can guess which one.

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Flogging a Good Cause

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by Petunia Winegum on December 9, 2014

‘She is constantly visited by amateurs of birch discipline, being always furnished with brooms of green birch and of the best quality, and is always happy to see any friend that feels himself inclinable to spend

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Alas! Poor Jeremy

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by Petunia Winegum on December 8, 2014

The Elm House branch of the conspiracy industry may tie-in with contemporary convictions of clandestine satanic abuse rings in the highest echelons of the British establishment, but it also connects the apparently liberal 21st century society

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The Sunday Post: As Good as it Gets

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by Petunia Winegum on December 7, 2014

The standard celebrity Q&A one sees with monotonous regularity on the inside back page of the Radio Times or in your average upmarket Sunday supplement often includes the ‘highlight of your life’ question. Beyond the usual

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on December 6, 2014

    A sad observation on the disappearance of distinctive and unfashionable London landmarks… http://greatwen.com/2014/12/04/earls-court-and-the-death-of-fun-in-london/ The good folk of Scarfolk are as reliably strange as ever…

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The Wind of Change

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by Petunia Winegum on December 5, 2014

IT’S HERE AT LAST! YOUR NEW-LOOK, NEW-IMPROVED RACCOON ARMS!

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

THE TIMES they are a changing! A long-overdue facelift is needed for this dusty old blog and now that an exciting new editor

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The Last Taboo.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 3, 2014

I don’t ‘do’ taboos; neither does my imaginary friend. Have you met my imaginary friend? She’s called ‘Contraria’; she starts every sentence with ‘On the other hand’, or ‘Looked at a different way’ – and I have lots of

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The Finale – part two.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 1, 2014

As it happens, Duncroft was the last of the plates to come to rest – over the last five weeks, I also had to move house, move country – and move

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Duncroft – the Finale. Part One.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 30, 2014

One minute I had so many plates spinning in the air I didn’t know which way to turn and began to doubt my ability to keep them all airborne – and the next? Why, if they didn’t all

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News

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by Anna Raccoon on November 29, 2014

Not so much a blog post but an on-line book – worth reading if you are interested in Conspiracy Theories. (Now you know why Ms Raccoon was late with this post

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Mounting Court Costs.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 28, 2014

Behind every great lawyer there is a woman – lugging an immense pile of court papers.

Those papers are known as the ‘court bundle’ – and since april of this year, there have been strenuous efforts

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Mackerel and Mutiny.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 27, 2014

Back in September 2013, Chris Grayling was spawning Cod at a rate of knots. He would protect young girls from sexual abuse whilst in his care by incarcerating them in ‘secure colleges’ along with hundreds of 17 year

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On Ascending to Insanity and Shrimpton Fishing.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 26, 2014

I have often pondered why the cliché is ‘descending into madness’ – given the number of people who end up firmly believing that they are the son of the Man upstairs, and spend the rest of their life with

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Should Women be Trained to Kill Professionally?

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by Anna Raccoon on November 24, 2014

Colonel Richard Kemp set the ladies aflutter by suggesting that they didn’t have the ‘natural killer instinct’ of men and thus shouldn’t be allowed to serve on the front line in direct combat roles.

I

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 22, 2014

Alastair Campbell re-writes Cameron’s valedictory speech after the ‘To lose one may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like Recklessness’ by-election.

“In left-wing circles it

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Sandwich Bored?

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by Anna Raccoon on November 19, 2014

How long does it take you to open the fridge, scrape up some ‘I can’t believe it’s not butter’ and apply it to two pieces of bread? A minute? Less than a minute? You’ve still got time to

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