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 →Duncroft – the Finale. Part One.
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 Continue reading →
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.
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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
Continue reading →Thoroughly Modern Millie.
I was in Amiens recently. Just a few days before the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day.
I thought I knew a fair bit
Continue reading →Politically Correct Policing
There’s possibly a whole generation out there now who think Politically Correct Policing all started in Britain in about 1999 when the McPherson Report was published. Well, I’ve got news for those punks. Politically correct
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
ISIS revert to 7th Century currency… Damian McBride on ‘how the Tory party have blown their toes off…’ A Cracking Post from Nick Drew – on terrific form. Continue reading →
The Third World
The month of April 1970, if remembered at all, is remembered for two landmark moments in modern cultural history that made front pages around the globe – the drama of Apollo 13’s aborted moon mission and the
The Equalizer
A couple of weeks ago I took myself off to the cinema to see “The Equalizer”. It is an old-fashioned morality tale, very loosely based on the TV series which made Edward Woodward a very rich
Sitting on Offence
Those bereft of a vested interest would probably agree war is a pretty offensive thing. Edwin Starr certainly did. We’ve been bombarded with the centenary of the First World War’s outbreak this year and the general tone
Lest We Forget.
The sons of our sons will marvel,
Paging the textbook:
“1914 … 1917 … 1919 …
How did they live? The poor devils!”
Children of a new age will read of battles,
Will learn the names of orators and Continue reading →
Paging the textbook:
“1914 … 1917 … 1919 …
How did they live? The poor devils!”
Children of a new age will read of battles,
Will learn the names of orators and Continue reading →
Parish Notice.
Good Morning all – and apologies for the lack of posts recently. Ms Raccoon has had a few problems of her own to sort out, leaving little enough time to put the world to rights…
All
Continue reading →Nothing for victims: The £3million left in Jimmy Savile's estate will be spent on lawyers.
- Just 22 out of 58 payout claims against Jimmy Savile have been accepted amid warnings that his estate may be swallowed up by legal fees… leaving nothing for genuine victims
- 58 damages claims have been considered
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The 25 Hour News
Apologies for the absence of Saturday Evening Posts worth reading, but the weekly bulletin is still here for those who like that sort of thing… Continue reading →
Ozzie Man – "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
It used to be that we said ‘What happens in the US this week, will follow in the UK next week’ – but recently we have been following in the footsteps, closely in the footsteps, of Australia. The
Continue reading →Howlin' Woolf – For Whom the Axe Falls.
I think I’ll toss a new name into the hat full of suggestions for a person deemed suitable to drink from the poisoned chalice that is to be set in front of the ‘Chair’ of the Independent Inquiry into
Continue reading →Alison Paula Ewing: A Life Backwards .
Almost three months ago, a piece of mine appeared on here titled ‘My Aim is True’; it told the story of my relationship with a kindred spirit called Alison and
Continue reading →Savile – the Mail on Sunday Investigation continues…
- Former cancer patient who said Savile saved her life now wants £60,000 for ‘sex abuse’ in latest questionable claim against his estate
- Claim one of many being laid against Savile’s estate found to be questionable
- Woman was a
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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News
‘It’s called planning’ by John Bolch. Archbishop Cranmer – ‘This is what a feminist theology looks like‘. Ali Parker on 6 essential points to ponder regarding the Continue reading →