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Monthly Archives: July 2015

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The BBC on the naughty step.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 31, 2015

I’ve been taking a look at the Foxes that John Wittingdale has chosen to put in charge of the British Broadcasting Henhouse, otherwise known as the BBC. Rather more dogs than vixens, as it happens, so lets take

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The Law of the Jungle

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by Petunia Winegum on July 30, 2015

Wilf Batty isn’t a name from the past that provokes instant recognition. Most probably have no idea who he was or what he did. Well, he was a farmer in the Mawbanna district of Tasmania, and what he did

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The Genes Genie

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by Petunia Winegum on July 29, 2015

Parents can be a hard act to live up to. If they’ve been an immense success in their chosen field, their children entering the same field means they have to either surpass the particular parent’s achievements or

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Class and the Common Girl.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 29, 2015

Reading one of Moor Larkin’s excellent posts the other night, an excerpt from the Pollard report caught my eye. I had seen it before, but in isolation; now I was reading it

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End of the Peer Show at the Maison des Crétins.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 28, 2015

Alas poor Buttifant*! The fashion police have busted him.

On Sunday he was a mere coke snorting, tart romping Peer, barely distinguishable from his colleagues – by Monday The Sun had played their master stroke and

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"The Daily Speculation" and "The Alarmist Times".

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by Anna Raccoon on July 27, 2015

I’m starting to count the number of times that the early morning news contains the words ‘The Prime Minister will tell business leaders today’ or ‘George Osborne is expected to announce’; I’m counting as a means of

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Milk Marketing.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 26, 2015

A reader of this parish, a blissfully content new grandfather, which makes a change from his usual curmudgeonly, contrarian, argumentative self, in between making coochy-coo noises and blowing bubbles at his new granddaughter, decided to do something practical

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The Raccoon Arms Jukebox

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by Petunia Winegum on July 25, 2015

They’re coming to take it away ha-ha, hee-hee, boo-hoo. Yes, the Raccoon Arms Jukebox has spun its last scratchy disc. It has expired. It is an ex-jukebox. It has served us well. Many is the time a

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As We Were Saying Earlier…

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by Petunia Winegum on July 24, 2015

Whilst a Victorian bride was expected to be as white as a Persil bed-sheet hanging from the suburban washing line when she was led up the aisle, her husband was expected to be a little more worldly-wise regarding

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Red Flags in the Sunset

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by Petunia Winegum on July 23, 2015

Most of you probably didn’t notice, but a new Liberal Democrat leader was elected this week. You remember the Lib Dems, don’t you? They used to form a small and stubborn little pocket in the last

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Trumps, Tramps, and Trims, and Peeping at Tom's.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 22, 2015

Trumps. What Donald Trump actually said:

“I like Mexico, I love the Mexican people, I do business with Mexico,” he said. “But you have people coming through the border who are from all over

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Between a Rock and a Hard Face

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by Petunia Winegum on July 21, 2015

Once upon a time, there was a Princess much beloved by the people, one who bemoaned the persistence of press intrusion until she wanted to showcase an exclusive couture outfit at a movie premiere or plug a

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Tag-Tag-Tagging Along.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 20, 2015

Adaptability might be the best way to describe how Google remains the top search engine in the world. As SEOs learn how to manipulate the system, Google constantly changes it. New technology arrives – social media – Google

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The Filth and The Fuehrer

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by Petunia Winegum on July 19, 2015

Viewing the past through the prism of the present is slowly becoming accepted practice. At one end of the scale, we have the conspiracy industry that has now turned its attention away from the JFK assassination and

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School’s Out For Summer

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by Petunia Winegum on July 18, 2015

Yesterday’s post (and for those of you with short memories, it was the one about weekends) anticipated some of what I’d intended for this one, especially in some of the comments it spawned. One opined that

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Something for the Weekend, Sir?

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by Anna Raccoon on July 17, 2015

I don’t believe that I have ever had work that recognised such a thing as the weekend. If I did, it was a long time ago. The idea that a Saturday or a Sunday is something profound, or

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Sham Pain Socialists

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by Petunia Winegum on July 16, 2015

Before American billionaires, Saudi Sheiks and Russian Oligarchs began buying up the country’s top flight football clubs, most were in the hands of local self-made men, pillars of the community who’d made a mint from industry and

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The Culture Club

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by Petunia Winegum on July 15, 2015

The Common Market, the Eurovision Song Contest, the European Cup, ‘Jeux Sans Frontieres’ and the European Capital of Culture – initiatives hatched on the continent with the admirable aim of creating a greater understanding and sense

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Je Suis un Francophile

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by Petunia Winegum on July 14, 2015

The late great Clement Freud once remarked that the British idea of Germany being the ultimate adversary is a relatively new theory, one spawned by two twentieth century World Wars. ‘France is really the enemy,’ he said.

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Childline.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 13, 2015

Back in July 2011, around the time that Meirion Jones was first making a move on the story of great personal interest to him and his family:

Mr Jones told me

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Who Pays the Piper?

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by Anna Raccoon on July 12, 2015

Follow the money is a popular retort. I’ve been chasing taxpayer’s money into some very odd corners.

I’m indebted to the National Secular Society for first alerting me to something quite mysterious. Those priests you occasionally

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The Fat Lady is Singing

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by Petunia Winegum on July 11, 2015

Once a vital lifeline to pop-picking teenagers when the pirates had yet to set sail and the BBC Light Programme swung to terminally upbeat orchestral mood music, Radio Luxembourg finally gave up the ghost of the 208 wavelength

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The Full Starr v. Ward Judgment.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 10, 2015

Neutral Citation Number: [2015] EWHC 1987 (QB)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION

Before :

MR JUSTICE NICOL

———————

Between

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Free Philistine!

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by Petunia Winegum on July 9, 2015

A ballerina with the Royal Ballet being interviewed on the radio the other day described the manner in which so many people outside her profession seem to assume her job is closer to a hobby. The common

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Nothing New Under the Sun…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 8, 2015

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

King James Bible Job 11:1 – 20.

There is much

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Two Sevens Clash

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by Petunia Winegum on July 7, 2015

It’s an over-familiar sight where TV news bulletins are concerned, one of the predominant clichés employed to emphasise what often seems a curiously testosterone-fuelled competition between broadcasters to bring the scene of the crime into the nation’s

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Discerning Light and Darkness in the Twilight World.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 6, 2015

The Twilight World, that chamber of horrors complete with trick mirrors distorting reality, and ghostly shrieks from memories past, that some unfortunate individuals are forced to dwell in towards the end of their days.

It is

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The Power of Nightmares

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by Petunia Winegum on July 5, 2015

‘White Bear’, the truly unnerving and remarkably horrific 2013 episode of Charlie Brooker’s ‘Twilight Zone’-for-the-twenty-first century series, ‘Black Mirror’, was the main topic of discussion when I saw a close friend the day after its transmission.

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What Has America Ever Done For Us?

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by Petunia Winegum on July 4, 2015

Bloody Americans, eh? Coming over here, taking our culture. On this day 239 years ago a bunch of ‘em got together and decided they’d be better off without us; and yet they won’t leave us alone! We

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Straight to Hellas

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by Petunia Winegum on July 3, 2015

With creditors at the door, Greece hovers on the brink of bankruptcy, is finally declared insolvent and then has to be bailed out by an international financial authority. No, not 2015, but 1893. I’ll refrain from saying

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