The Fascism of Political Correctness strikes again!
Dave Thompson, chief constable of West Midlands police, has decided that there are ‘no barriers’ to a woman police officer deciding to wear the niqab – the
Continue reading →The Fascism of Political Correctness strikes again!
Dave Thompson, chief constable of West Midlands police, has decided that there are ‘no barriers’ to a woman police officer deciding to wear the niqab – the
Continue reading →I can happily read books until my eyes bleed. I love to learn. I particularly love books that can teach me something new, cause me to stop reading, stare into the middle distance – and perhaps
Continue reading →The Percy Principle.
“In the NHS, every failing CEO tends to move sideways to a non-existent role of no consequence but with a similar pay grade.”
Katrina Percy is a huge fan of fresh faced young men
Continue reading →Dame Lowell Goddard now claims that far from ‘running away to her bach’ her resignation was an honourable protest against a child abuse inquiry that was, in Kiwi slang, well and truly munted.
She has
Continue reading →I really don’t like Keith Vaz.
I don’t like his posturing, his jumping on every available bandwagon, his readiness to ruin the reputation of others and the glee with which he does it.
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Ms Raccoon hasn’t had much of an appetite, the past few weeks, for trawling round her usual rubbish dumps. As you probably realised, I’ve been none too well. Hence I had an appointment for an extra
Continue reading →Dee Cole, poster girl for Slater & Gordon, got her caravan on the south coast to gave her ‘closure’ and help her forget the time she was, er, raped by Savile in a caravan on the south coast….if only
Continue reading →Normally, Ms Raccoon stays as far away from the European Broadcasting Union
Continue reading →The ever gullible Surrey Police seem to have reversed their much publicised ‘arrest first, investigate later’ policy; this time they investigated – then arrested their ‘credible witness’.
It was
Continue reading →What is it with Labour? They are incapable of finding a spinmeister who can keep all his tales in the air.
Andy Coulson, for all his faults, would never have let Cameron be caught
Continue reading →I seem to be having a ‘bishopfest’ this month. There are a lot of these Bishops around – due in no small measure to the propensity of ‘The One Holy True Original Church’ to ordain anyone who makes
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon is temporarily indisposed again, so I offer you this Youtube item which is currently trending in the US.
I thought it should be part of
Continue reading →There is a worrying shuffling of feet and staring into the middle distance in Academia. It is understandable – there is not much point in sticking your neck out so far that you end up with
Continue reading →An old favourite – Dioclese – with an excellent review of a programme that had me in stitches! Interesting ‘backstory’ to the Burkini on the Beach saga. David Thompson picks up on
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon still has her head firmly embedded in another case and it has become obvious that it won’t be ready for publication today – so here is a little light relief to keep you amused
Continue reading →Yet again, the latest example of the manipulation of our judicial system lies languishing in my ‘to do’ folder; and Ms Raccoon has found three more titbits of absolute nonsense in order to distract herself from the hard
Continue reading →I can scarcely believe it myself but it continues to be the case that I am intermittently invited to stay with Ms Raccoon and Mr G – provided enough time has elapsed since my last
Continue reading →Morphine seems to have stunned everything north of the neck as well as its required task, and I can’t keep my mind on any one subject. So have several different ones, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
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It has been a long time in gestation. It was back in February when I discovered a dropbox belonging to one Kevin Hurley, then Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey. Mr Hurley, at that time,
Continue reading →Popinjay n. a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter.
Professor Alexis Jay has fallen victim to the popinjays ‘having a pop’ within a day of being appointed to take an exhilarating
Continue reading →Remember the days, not so long ago, when to suggest that there existed such a thing as a ‘false sexual allegation’ saw you under siege on Twitter for days on end? It was a ‘vile’ suggestion
Continue reading →Herr Griesbach is in the news today – as an asylum seeker. Fully equipped, as any proper asylum seeker should be, with three accompanying dependant women, and four children…
He says he is prepared
Continue reading →Colour me confused. I was under the impression that any suggestion of AIDS being ‘the gay plague’ was the ultimate example of homophobia? Didn’t David Cameron and Nick Clegg both demand that the ‘horrific slur’ that
Continue reading →‘What first attracted you to Fleet Street, Mr Hack?’ is a question which has never been answered adequately.
‘Tis a toss up whether it was the proliferation of ale houses, providing refuge from the
Continue reading →The indefatigable Sean O’ Neill Times £ has elicited the information that New Zealander Dame Lowell Goddard, hired to investigate British failure to investigate sexual abuse in British institutions, has so far this year spent
Continue reading →As night-time falls, the marsh becomes the province of the ‘will-o’-the-wisp’, that mysterious blueish light that dances hither and thither, occasionally picking up the slow beat of the barn owl’s wings, more usually skitting across the
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon has once more ventured down into the lagomorphan labyrinth and returned with a fresh specimen for your amusement in this, the silly season. This one has long floppy ears an’ everyfing.
It kicked off,
Continue reading →Porkie Farming nearly became a profitable business.
Back in 2007, a young carpenter registered a company ‘Ddc Contracts‘, to carry out a joinery business, along with ‘possibly’ his partner, Lorraine
Continue reading →Not since Sam Tân stood in a whoopsie, which admittedly was only yesterday M’lud, a microscopic time in outrage land; has there been such a scramble to censor a so far unseen episode of ‘baby sitting for busy
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