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Monthly Archives: September 2015

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Party On, Dude!

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by Petunia Winegum on September 30, 2015

It might not be everybody’s idea of entertaining television – and, to be frank, it’s not necessarily mine; but the party conference season is with us again, and at one time this strange, ritualistic Eurovision-for-politicians spectacle used

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Predictive Policing and ‘Allegator’ Algorithms.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 30, 2015

Traditional Policing has always paid attention to crime ‘hot spots’. Keeping an eye on the ATM machine where several muggings have occurred over the previous few weeks; Making a regular ‘drive by’ a

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Comic Cuts

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by Petunia Winegum on September 29, 2015

Beyond the endless TV mags, titillating rags and metrosexual men’s handbooks, I spied a tiny handful of what used to be called comics on the newsstand the other day. All bar one notable exception appeared to be movie merchandise, just

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The Last of the Famous International Playboys

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by Gildas the Monk on September 27, 2015

I was having a chat with our landlord Petunia this week. For those who don’t know, Petunia borrows his moniker from the theatrical nickname of 70s British showbusiness superstar, Peter Wyngarde AKA Jason King. I think I

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The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle

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by Petunia Winegum on September 25, 2015

Sometimes a face gatecrashes the public consciousness with such force that the imprint of the image acquires an immortal permanence; the owner of the iconic countenance in question remains fixed as that face way beyond the point

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*Exclusive* Esther Baker and David Hencke.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 25, 2015

The allegations of historical child sex abuse made by Esther Baker were always going to be a ‘big challenge for Staffordshire Police‘ to investigate, to quote David Hencke‘s own words. David,

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Luck Be a Tory Tonight

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by Petunia Winegum on September 24, 2015

Whatever part competence, judgement and vision play in a premiership, the factors of timing and luck should never be underestimated. Robert Walpole emerged from the chaos of the South Sea Bubble and sold himself as the only

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Class and the Common Girl.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 23, 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 again in conjunction with

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Mutter Angela and the Sorting Hat

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by Gildas the Monk on September 22, 2015

I read in my Sunday broadsheets that Angela Merkel is starting to get a bit of stick in Germany. For example “Mutter Angela” is featured on the front page of Der Spiegel in full Mother Theresa

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#Snoutrage.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 21, 2015

There is no part of a millionaire’s anatomy quite as delicate as his ego.

Lord Ashcroft’s ego was severely dented when David Cameron failed to give him a prestigious job in

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Spamalot & The Sunday Obituary

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by Petunia Winegum on September 20, 2015

Members of staff at the Raccoon Arms are not solely engaged in serving the customers, pulling pints, changing barrels, preventing patrons from buying too many packets of peanuts merely to see if the model on the board

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The Hunt for Red September

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by Petunia Winegum on September 19, 2015

Being a starving artist in a garret and all that, social outings aren’t so abundant; but I do make a point of venturing out to my local parade of shops each morning and if there’s one thing

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Grace and Fervour

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by Petunia Winegum on September 18, 2015

September 1955, exactly sixty years ago – a momentous month for popular culture that drew a line in the sand, signalling the division between the old world and the new; in the case of the latter, it

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*Exclusive* – Mandatory Reporting and Meirion Jones.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 16, 2015

Meirion Jones has long been an advocate of ‘Mandatory Reporting’ – a system of criminal sanctions for those who have care of children but have failed to report allegations of abuse made to them regarding those children. He

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The Open Doors of Perception

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by Gildas the Monk on September 15, 2015

Here is a brief timeline of events.

On Saturday morning I listened with great interest to the announcements of the results of the Labour leadership contest. I raised an eyebrow at the announcement of Mr.

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Munchausen’s Tea Party.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 14, 2015

The poisonous legacy of Leveson drags on. The main stream media has turned into ‘penny dreadful’ country in its efforts to prove that it should be allowed to print anything and everything (well,

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Fat Bottomed Girls and Boozy Memories.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 13, 2015

Academics never fail to amaze me with their innovative methods of acquiring grants to study yet another obscure subject. I well remember writing a post on the obscene size of the grant obtained by some American academics

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Citizen Corbyn

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by Petunia Winegum on September 12, 2015

It’s official. New Labour is dead. Long live Old Labour. Jeremy Corbyn is now the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. Imagine Jacob Rees-Mogg being elected Tory leader. Pretty unimaginable, to be honest, yet Comrade Corbyn’s election win

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Fat Bottomed Girls and Boozy Memories.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 12, 2015

Academics never fail to amaze me with their innovative methods of acquiring grants to study yet another obscure subject. I well remember writing a post on the obscene size of

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A Kiss is just a Kiss…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 12, 2015

Trading masticatory juices with someone who may have just consumed something on the menu that you wouldn’t have dreamt of choosing is such a part of western culture that virtually all of us

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Publish and Be Damned

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by Petunia Winegum on September 11, 2015

Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Honecker’s DDR – mandatory reporting to the authorities by friends, families and neighbours, phone-taps, wire-taps, cameras tracking the moves of every citizen, persistent persecution of targets by a police force making

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The Ship of Fools motors back again…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 10, 2015

Mrs Relentlessly Cheerful wore her broadest grin. ‘Sleep well?’ Her head tipped from top to bottom in that nodding motion employed by amateur psychologists which is supposed to get you to nod in agreement. Her tussled blonde

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The Ship of Fools motors on…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 9, 2015

No we didn’t put the sails up.

You can’t put up the sails when the wind is coming from the opposite direction to the one you have a pre-arranged appointment with – the wind would

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The Ship of Fools motors back again…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 9, 2015

Mrs Relentlessly Cheerful wore her broadest grin. ‘Sleep well?’ Her head tipped from top to bottom in that nodding motion employed by amateur psychologists which is supposed to get you to nod in

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The Ship of Fools.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 8, 2015

Christopher Rudd was a Kent school teacher, grandson of the famous Cape merchant and adventurer Charles Rudd, who also took his pupils out to sea in a dinghy to teach them the art of seamanship. Sadly, he

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The Ship of Fools motors on…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 8, 2015

No we didn’t put the sails up. You can’t put up the sails when the wind is coming from the opposite direction to the one you have a pre-arranged appointment with – the wind

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A Declaration of Independence

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by Sigillum on September 7, 2015

I wish to live as a free man in a free country.

I wish to live under the rule of laws created by elected politicians, who I can hold to account and vote for, or against,

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A Sunday Ramble

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by Gildas the Monk on September 6, 2015

Since the world is quite clearly going to hell in a handcart, I decided to produce some whimsy, a bit of light refreshment. It is time to talk about lampreys. I feel the lamprey needs to

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The Ship of Fools.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 6, 2015

Christopher Rudd was a Kent school teacher, grandson of the famous Cape merchant and adventurer Charles Rudd, who also took his pupils out to sea in a dinghy to teach them the art

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A Picture Fells A Thousand Tories

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by Petunia Winegum on September 5, 2015

What a difference a week makes. For a long time now, what used to be asylum-seekers before being rebranded migrants and then suddenly refugees have been dying at sea in appallingly high numbers, many fleeing war-torn Syria.

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