Another Country
Shall I number the words for Thee?
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
Continue reading →25 Hour News Review of 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
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25- Hour News.
The Last Communist City by Michael Totten. Marilyn Stowe on Media Access to the Family Courts. Old Holborn on Humouring the Humourless. Archbishop Cranmer –
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Sony with the Grinch on top.
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
Continue reading →London Town is Falling Down
Essence of Anglia.
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.
Fierce Pearce and the Fake Sheikh.
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
Continue reading →Wake Me Up on May 7
The absence of flexibility in the American Presidential system means either death or
Continue reading →The Sunday Post: A Nation Groomed?
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News
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
Continue reading →Criminal History
Mother and Child Reunion
Credit Where Credit’s Due
Flogging a Good Cause
Alas! Poor Jeremy
The Sunday Post: As Good as it Gets
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News
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
IT’S HERE AT LAST! YOUR NEW-LOOK, NEW-IMPROVED RACCOON ARMS!
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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
Continue reading →The Last Taboo.
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
Continue reading →The Finale – part two.
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
Continue reading →Duncroft – the Finale. Part One.
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
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News
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.
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
Continue reading →Mackerel and Mutiny.
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
Continue reading →On Ascending to Insanity and Shrimpton Fishing.
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
Continue reading →Should Women be Trained to Kill Professionally?
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
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
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
Continue reading →Sandwich Bored?
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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