Summer 2014 is one of those occasional moments when those who resent their licence fee being squandered on sport get rather hot under the collar. As well as the annual Wimbledon fortnight dominating schedules, we also have
Continue reading →The Small Silver Screen
Cool Brittan-ia.
You know how it feels when somebody gives you a thick dossier and thirty or forty years later someone asks you where you put it, and you just cannot remember… Infuriating isn’t it. It was there just 10,000
Continue reading →Who’s Got the Bottle?
I am sure many Raccoonistas share concerns about the amount of State surveillance. The same may be said of the Daily Mail. But both have their uses from time to time.
Last year a
Continue reading →One day 'An eminent Lord' – and the next – 'A Child Sex Apologist'
My, oh, my – the Conspiri-loons are fair drumming their heels in the Twitter aisles this morning. Monstrous tantrums. So near the sweetie counter – and yet so far!
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Abuse of NHS Resources -The Yewtree Allegations (continued).
Operation Yewtree recorded an allegation that Savile
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'Truly awful, dreadful' – The Yewtree Allegations (continued)
Back last November, an excitable Alan Collins of Pannone, once a proudly independent Manchester law firm of some repute, but now a mere sub-division of the global Brobdingnagian Slater and Gordon, was breathlessly announcing that he was getting ‘fresh
Continue reading →Risk – The Dirty War for Europe’s integrity and Soul
When I was a young man I used to play a strategy board
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News.
James Rothbard on ‘Rolf Harris – Beyond Reasonable doubt’. Retarded Kingdom and 20 years of sabotage. The latest ‘celebrity historic sex abuse’ trial bites the dust. Not guilty. Continue reading →
Nigerian Reality and the Internet.
Back in the Seventeenth century, Oya was the ‘capital emplacement’ of a group of west African tribes that had a common language – Yoruba. We can’t really call Oya the capital city, because that would imply that it
Continue reading →Busted! -The NSPCC and That Rolf Harris Video.
Who’d have believed it? Have you, as a figure of authority – parent, teacher, relative – ever heard of a child saying ‘No’? When you want them to go to bed,
Continue reading →Naming and Shaming GPs.
“Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has vowed to root out doctors who cost patients’ lives by failing to send them for vital hospital tests soon enough.”
Would it not be more productive to
Continue reading →The trials of Tyrion Lannister, and others.
Warning! Spoiler alert for Game of Thrones Series 4, Episodes 4, 5 and 6!
Slip Sliding Away.
Two years ago, my grandfather died just a few months after his 90th birthday. Born in 1922, he belonged to ‘the wartime generation’, doing his bit for King and Country in London during the
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
25 Hour news by Victoria Lucas. Madame Arcati mourns Richard Ingrams. Cardiff’s ‘Panini’ Wall of fame: honour for park footballers. Retarded kingdom on the death of Cool. Continue reading →
Mortuary Mendacity – The Yewtree Allegations (continued!)
Another day, and the claims grow ever wilder; now permeating even those parts of the media – like The Times – that you might have relied upon in the past to check their sources and report actual facts. But
Continue reading →Eyeball Eyewash! – The Yewtree Allegations.
The mighty media have spoken, Savile, the country’s favourite cartoon predatory paedophile is in the dock once more. The Daily Mirror reporting:
“Jimmy Savile had sex with dead bodies
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Bitch-slapping Rebekah.
The political debate moved out of parliament several decades ago, into the judicial arena in a wave of enthusiasm for ‘judicial review’ – now it is being played out in the criminal courts. The Old
Continue reading →J32 – Liverpool demands 'Justice for the 32'!
Fifa and various ill-informed football commentators are making strenuous efforts this morning to deflect the blame for the tragic crushing of 32 innocent molars in Louis
Continue reading →Cameron, Miliband, PMQs and THAT Hacking Trial.
Watching PMQs today was depressing – the last whimper of democracy. The pompous dwarf currently installed in the Speaker’s Chair churning out his patronising ‘put downs’, as our elected spokesmen prematurely articulated their incoherent insults and jibes; both
Continue reading →Evangelica.
The carnival of hysterical hypocrisy that is the American Fundamentalist Christian/religious right-wing continues to thunder across the plains, desperate to reach high moral ground before the flood of returning Jihadists swamps the trenches. Both armies seek control of the strategic
Continue reading →Death Rattles of the Satanic Cult.
I have touched before on the story of Carol Felstead, who was possibly the first ‘accredited’ satanic abuse cult victim. Carol died on the 29 June 2005
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and The 25 Hour News Service.
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato.
(Note: [remove before publishing] Should be safe enough Ed: they must have run out of vegetable puns after yesterday….)
Hurling abuse is a time honoured occupation. The earliest reference I can find is to an early
Continue reading →Religion without Tears.
Peeling back the layers of superstition and obfuscation, rumour and contradiction, behind which the world’s major religions and belief systems conceal their origins is never easy. Did Moses come down this side of the Mountain – or that?
Continue reading →Caridade Caritas.
Several days ago, I received a Twitter message asking if an organisation could do a guest post on this blog. I’d never heard of the ‘Kazuri community’ – something to do with Kazakstan
Continue reading →Blair-faced Insults.
The humble memory stick lured Blair out into the open yesterday, or rather, 160 of them.
As news of their contents spread through the western intelligence world – the names of all the foreign fighters enrolled
Continue reading →World Cup Mayhem
The Quidditch World Cup or something has come to the Abbey, and in some style. Leave aside all naked FIFA corruption, the riots and the general unpleasant side of the ‘beautiful game’, the
Continue reading →Victimising the Victimisers.
It was all odd. Very odd. Max Clifford was never a BBC man, but rather was always employed by what the BBC would sneeringly have referred to as “the Murdoch Press”. In a bizarre collision of
Continue reading →Myths, Mark Williams-Thomas, Turn Off the Red Light and Child Exploitation.
I need to say something just to stop my stomach churning. I am hoping, if you read this, you will post it in response to every abolitionist org that tries to use the street children of Rio to
Continue reading →The Cheque's in the Male and Twictimisation.
The rise of militant feminism has been quite hilarious to those of us who grew up in a pre-feminist world and still happily managed to make a life for ourselves in ‘male dominated professions’, and were mostly reared
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