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 →Thoroughly Modern Millie.
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 →
Clowning Around.
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 –
Continue reading →The Hysteria's in full bloom.
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
Continue reading →The 'Pompey Lads'
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
Continue reading →Pilgrim’s Progress
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,
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
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’. Continue reading →
The Dud's Army?
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
Continue reading →Who do you think you are kidding, Mr COBRA?
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
Continue reading →The Ill-liberal.
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,
Continue reading →Savile – the Mail on Sunday Investigation.
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.
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…'
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
Continue reading →Freudian Slips and the Disabled.
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
Continue reading →Police Bail and the Innocent.
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
Continue reading →The Irish 'Spring Water' Revolution.
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
Continue reading →What Drives a False Allegator?
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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