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Monthly Archives: August 2014

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Sunday Bloody Sunday and the Lost Art of Boredom

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by Petunia Winegum on August 31, 2014

‘Sunday Bloody Sunday really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday. You wake up in the morning, you’ve got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you’ve got to mow

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

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by Anna Raccoon on August 30, 2014

Daniel Acheampong on the Death Penalty. An old post from MRDA – but worth reading for a superb rant on the Twitter mob. JuliaM on the sad

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Rejoice! The End of the Witch-hunt is Nigh!

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by Anna Raccoon on August 29, 2014

Perfidy of an ex-cop snake,

In the caldron boil and bake;

Matron’s stories told defy the truth,

Gropes remember’d from their youth,

Liz Dux’ ego, and Meirion’s sting,—

For

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Memory Tricks.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 28, 2014

I can remember events that date back to being three years old – but they are ‘fixed images’ rather than a ‘video’ rendition of events. I have a clear image of my Father, bent over an

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Rotherham bothers 'em?

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by Anna Raccoon on August 27, 2014

Across the land, fingers are flying over moderation panels on a thousand websites – deleting any mention of Rotherham and Pakistanis in the same comment. There is more cant and hypocrisy around today than I have seen for

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Notting Hill Carnage.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 26, 2014

It must be August Bank Holiday – London’s most affluent neighbourhood has been forced to board up its windows, board out the cat and the dog, send the children off to Rock in Cornwall – whose residents have

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Gap-year journalism bringing you gap-year jihadism.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 25, 2014

Austin Tice 2012

The lexicon of corporate life has affected the dead tree press in ways more subtle than the arrest of 63 journalists for offences uncovered by the investigation of the so-called ‘hacking’ investigation, or

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Unholy War?

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by Gildas the Monk on August 24, 2014

This was the headline in an article in The Times – rather appropriate, I thought, in the light of the present pleasantries being visited on the Middle East by the nascent Islamic State.

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

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by Anna Raccoon on August 23, 2014

Frank Davis on Trivial Worries. Madame Arcati and Mrs Dale’s Dowry line up the latest designer handbags for a duel. Mrs Dale responds….. Justin Gau with

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Islam and the Sword.

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by Gildas the Monk on August 22, 2014

There was a prescient piece in the Sunday Times this week by Tom Holland, historian and author of, amongst other books, ‘In the Shadow of the Sword’, which charts the origins of Islam.

In

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Christianity, Feminism and Operation Yewtree.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 21, 2014

I’m not a religious man by any means. Not in the sense of organised religion, or worship of a named ‘Higher Entity’. I don’t define myself by religion, by politics or race – people are/were generally able to

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Educating Auntie.

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by Petunia Winegum on August 20, 2014

I have in front of me a copy of the Radio Times, dated 31 August-6 September 1974 – yes, almost exactly forty years ago. The front cover is a mock-up of a police photo-fit image featuring the

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Man Bites Dog.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 19, 2014

It is possibly unfair to infer that Kathy Hook is a dog – bitch might have been better. ‘Man bites Bitch’ – doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

She was voted ‘Unsung Hero’ by BBC Sports

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The Child Abuse Band-waggon Slips Over the Cliff….

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by Anna Raccoon on August 18, 2014

The slur-mongers – I refuse to dignify them with the term ‘moral entrepreneurs’ – who base their business model on peddling tit-bits of salacious gossip to the post-Leveson media are coming under increased scrutiny today following the universal disquiet

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

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by Anna Raccoon on August 16, 2014

Dioclese on ‘Off the Wall’ Bloggers. Exinjuria on ‘Bad Character Evidence‘. ‘Newgate News’ for a round up of the latest entrants in the Darwin awards. ‘How

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Cliff Hanging.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 15, 2014

The Internet mob have claimed another scalp. A woman who chose to run a brothel told a man involved in money laundering that one of her customers used to sign into the brothel as ‘Cliff Richard’. Naturally coming from

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British Values.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 14, 2014

What are these ‘British values’ that Nicky Morgan thinks should be instilled in toddlers in an ‘age appropriate’ manner?

We have a varied assortment to consider today. “Challenging negative attitudes and stereotypes.”

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Robin Williams v J J Murphy.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 13, 2014

JJ Murphy – his ‘watch’ has stopped.

I don’t habitually read the obituaries. Too reminiscent of past visits to my ex-mother in law in Liverpool, when the current score of Liverpudlians who had pegged it since

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No Pockets in a Shroud.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 12, 2014

Shrouds used to have pockets, you know. It was quite the done thing in Pagan times, to take all your wordily possessions with you, to enhance your life in the hereafter.

In Normandy, northern

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The Youdathought bird is back…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 11, 2014

The Guardianistas are on holiday. Only their corpus – their spiritual souls are still swarming across Twitter expressing outrage. A moment’s pause in motion brings the fingertips skating across their touch screen. “Oh do look Jeremy, Martha has posted

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My Aim is True.

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by Petunia Winegum on August 10, 2014

In March this year I was being served at my local Sainsbury’s and was reluctantly drawn into conversation by the woman behind the counter; she revealed she lived on the same street I used to live on

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

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by Anna Raccoon on August 9, 2014


The Students responsible for this video have already won an award – deservedly so. Best viewed full screen – and it just gets better and better.

An old story

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The Cancer at the heart of the NHS.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 8, 2014

‘Save Our NHS’ screech the placards! Who exactly is that ‘Our’ referring to?

‘Our’ as in ‘Our’ union ridden, hidebound, monolithic organisation that can keep endless middle managers in work writing reports, attending conferences, following the

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Tin Foil Hattery.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 7, 2014

“With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their

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And the Winner of the 'Gammy' Award is…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 6, 2014

For services to column inches and the newspaper industry – The Bunbury Mail, in Western Australia….

It was only a matter of time before a helpful neighbour dobbed in the couple who have outraged the Western world

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Whenever I hear the Sparrow Chirping…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 5, 2014

During the week, I might have as many as 50 ‘tabs’ open on the computer; articles that have generated a germ of an idea, research for an article I might be writing. They just pile up on me. Sometimes

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The curse of Ebola and thank God for Fags…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 5, 2014

Ebola is coming whooo! Sky news is beside itself with excitement – a new nightmare on Sky1; Cameron is holding Cobra meetings to see if Britain is ready for this new challenge, the World Health organisation is warning

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Lest we forget

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by Gildas the Monk on August 4, 2014

100 years ago today Britain entered a war in which Europe slaughtered its young men on an industrial scale. Two of the men who fought and thankfully survived were my grandfathers. My paternal grandfather fought with

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The Former Gopher Loafers, Moral Relativism, and Thai Take-aways.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 4, 2014

Kate Moss went to Glastonbury in a pair of wellies once; wellies hit centre stage as a fashion accessory and now you can buy spotted wellies, striped wellies, flowery wellies, every sort of wellie you care to mention,

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An update about the Cat With No Name.

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by Gildas the Monk on August 3, 2014

Very regular readers might just recall I have occasionally written about “my” cat – the Cat With No Name.

To reprise, he came into my life when I found my present sanctuary, damn near

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