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Monthly Archives: October 2014

Clowning Around.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 29, 2014

14 young teenagers were arrested here in France on Saturday night. They were armed with baseball bats, knives – and guns. Nothing particularly unusual in that; it is legal (for adults!) to buy a gun in France –

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The Hysteria's in full bloom.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 28, 2014

Clambering over every sector of society, driving its tendrils into the judiciary, weakening the mortar of reason that kept us from collapsing into anarchy. The pungent scent is positively evil.

Paedophilia, at least the practice of it, the

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The 'Pompey Lads'

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by Anna Raccoon on October 27, 2014

The ‘Pompey Lads’ – its such a friendly nickname. It was bestowed with honour on the fine young men of Portsmouth who were killed in action on HMS Good Hope when she was sunk 100 years ago this

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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by Gildas the Monk on October 26, 2014

I see that the glitzy behemoth that is the BBC’s Children in Need is hoving into view. I have to confess, I don’t really like it. How can one not support such a manifestly good cause,

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

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by Anna Raccoon on October 25, 2014

Worth re-reading in the light of the controversy over the impartiality of the Chairman of the Child Abuse Inquiry – Barrister Blogger’s excellent summation of the impartiality of the ‘victim’s champion’.

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The Dud's Army?

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by Anna Raccoon on October 23, 2014

I was in Amiens, northern France on Sunday night; gazing out of the window at a flat featureless land covered with lush grass and contented cows. It was not always thus – Amiens lies at the heart of the

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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr COBRA?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 22, 2014

Forty years ago, in October 1974, five people were killed in an explosion that ripped through a pub in Guildford; just over a month later, twenty-one were killed in two separate explosions that ripped through

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The Ill-liberal.

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by Moor Larkin on October 21, 2014

When I was growing up I was always reading in newspapers and magazines that everyone could remember exactly where they were and exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy was shot in Dallas,

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Savile – the Mail on Sunday Investigation.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 19, 2014

How Savile’s niece’s demand for compensation led to police fraud probe: Her own daughter says story is false…how many more of the 211 claims for vast payments will police investigate?
  • Caroline Robinson claimed great-uncle Savile
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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 18, 2014

    Moor Larkin continues to plough his way through the muddy fields of the Leeds General Report. Barnardos castigated for telling a women ‘raped for six months’ that Continue reading →

Ebola – 'Tis an ill wind…'

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by Anna Raccoon on October 17, 2014

Not everybody is mourning the Ebola crisis running out of control in Liberia. Some see a business opportunity.

An ill wind blows from the small district of Lofa in Liberia. The media was delighted when they discovered that

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Freudian Slips and the Disabled.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 16, 2014

Lord Freud was tape recorded at a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference during a discussion regarding those with disabilities which prevented them from doing what an employer might term ‘a full day’s pay for a full

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Police Bail and the Innocent.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 15, 2014

Cautious steps from the Home Secretary, Theresa May. She has ‘asked’ the College of Policing to ‘consider’ implementing a time limit on the length of time a suspect is allowed to be held on police bail in England

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The Irish 'Spring Water' Revolution.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 14, 2014

Ireland – as famous for its freshwater lakes and rivers as it is for the soft rain which replenishes them and nourishes the verdant green hills.

Surrounded by some of the best water in the world

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What Drives a False Allegator?

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by Anna Raccoon on October 13, 2014

I had expected that I should have been writing a ‘Court of Protection’ story this morning, I spent the week-end bashing my head against possibly the most complex decision to ever emanate from the Court; however, the more I read,

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Soliloquy

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by Gildas the Monk on October 12, 2014

As regular visitors to this blog will know I am, of course, a fool. This foolishness is manifested in various ways, and on the whole I put up with myself and make light of

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

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by Anna Raccoon on October 11, 2014

Raccoon intelligence from Nautilus. The Biter, bit. A Feminist finds herself on the wrong end of the new wave of politically correct allegations. Could this be an

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Where are they now? No 284 – Essex Man.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 10, 2014

Sky – the go to news service for reliable news…

As excitable Sky journalists rush to tell us of ‘UKIPs first MP’, Douglas Carswell, I thought I’d take a look at the ‘forgotten man’ – who

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Cameron insults us all with his response to UKIP.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 9, 2014

This is what happens when you have a Prime Minister advised by a ‘Lord Chancellor’ – now downgraded to ‘Justice Secretary’ – who isn’t a lawyer.

UKIP are campaigning to see

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Djinns, Dakini, Kindoki and other spooks that go Bwaa in the night…

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by Anna Raccoon on October 8, 2014

Back in 2011, Tim Loughton, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, set up a round table meeting of ‘experts’.

The experts sat there and told him horrific tales of witchcraft, spirit possession, demons or the devil,

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Valuing Antiques – and the Great Pig-Iron Bubble.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 7, 2014

A friend e-mailed me this week, asking if I could be of assistance in valuing some antiques for them. Years of ‘antique running’ taught me that there is only one answer to that question – they are worth

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The Greedier Media.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 5, 2014

As we speed through the brave new world of social media, disasters splatter against our windscreen like so many mosquitoes. We can ignore some of them, look past them, wipe away others – but eventually, we must stop,

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

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by Anna Raccoon on October 4, 2014

The Archdruid reports on the Buffalo Winds. John Band on Clacton – the whitest place in the UK! Panorama narrows its focus. Lucy Reed on

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A Grovelling Apology.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 2, 2014

An abysmal performance yesterday; I can only say how terribly sorry I am for the trouble I caused you all.

When I took the site down before I had my last operation – I managed to delete

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The Conference Season

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by Anna Raccoon on October 1, 2014

Who, apart from ambitious young journalists in drag looking to snare a cheap story, actually goes to a Party Conference of any persuasion?

The Telegraph helpfully calculated, a few months ago, that it cost upwards of £700 to spend

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