An Australian judge has recognised that the media coverage that those with some vestigial claim to celebrity attract when appearing in
Continue reading →Wow! Media coverage as extra judicial punishment…!!!
Who Owns Your Inner Secrets?
Whips in parliament operate by controlling information that individual MPs would not want to escape. The Catholic priest enjoyed a measure of control over his community by virtue of what he knew. Blackmailers work on the
Hard Cases Make Bad Law.
When Roy Whiting snatched – and then murdered – eight-year-old Sarah Payne, feelings were running high in the entire country; empathy for the ‘living nightmare every parent dreads’ was enormous. Sarah’s mother, Sara, was
Continue reading →Feeding Time at the Legal Zoo.
It started with a lie; a false allegation; a mendacity, a calumny, a canard. However you dress it up, it simply wasn’t true.
40 year-old Georgina Ray decided that the only possible reason
Continue reading →Three Men and a Vote.
The Messrs. Oliver, Llewellyn, and Lockwood are sitting at home in the stultifying heat, holding their breath, waiting to see if they can add the burden of an ermine cloak to the trials of
BrExaro means BrExaro.
The suppurating boil on the face of journalism, oozing vituperative stories, usually with a left-wing sting in the tail, that has been the internet agency Exaro, has, if one can believe a word that Mark Watts,
Their Satanic Travesties.
Yesterday, the long running saga of ‘delusional, obsessional, irrational and odd’ individuals who have littered the internet with requests for funds to help them bring to justice a supposed band of Satanic baby eaters and paedophiles
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This is a well-meaning face. It belongs to Colette Yapp-Davis. She is, I am sure, a well meaning person attached to the Goddard Inquiry. I am equally sure her previous career as a Renewables Obligation Officer
Pot Pourri
Picture the scene. You’ve raised little Jamie and Chloe from helpless infants to excitable teenagers. You’ve bought a house in the right catchment area. You’ve hung onto your job somehow and paid the mortgage. You’ve tracked
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
£10,000 damages awarded against an on-line troll for falsely labelling a Tory politician a paedophile. Or the cost of replying
Continue reading →The Morality Police.
What is a Police Force to do with falling crime figures? Not enough murder and property theft to go round the employees? Start shedding
Continue reading →Freudian Scenarios.
Freud’s grandson, David, is an interesting man. Let us see if he can survive in his present job long enough for me to write this article. Stay where you are for half an hour David, for pity’s
Pokémon Politics.
It’s the latest craze. It’s an augmented reality game that uses your phone’s camera and GPS. How do you play? By
Continue reading →Hidden in Plain Sight?
Yesterday, it was confirmed that Adam Johnson was to remain the poster child for those such as the NSPCC that wish us to believe that the gravest danger likely to to befall a child was coming
Non, je ne regrette rien…
Long ago, a woman called Rosie Swale-Pope wrote a book which became famous briefly in the 70s. I, along with every other woman of my generation read it eagerly. Rosie had sailed around the world with her husband,
Continue reading →Parish Notice.
How about some good news for a change?
Ms Raccoon won’t be resigning any time soon.
My last scan was a success. Correction, my last scan was a flippin’ disaster – but
Continue reading →The ‘armless 77th Brigade.
I do wonder if the Iraq war had all gone swimmingly and we were awash with cheap oil and grateful Iraqis, whether there would be quite so much airtime afforded to the grieving relatives of the
The Birth and Death of the Laburnum Party.
Watching Labour tear its own heart out is reminiscent of watching squatters tip a grand mansion into decay.
The damp slowly creeps up the walls; the rafters collapse under the weight of slate and moss,
Continue reading →EUmaggedon.
And with a flick of my wrist, I have just dumped the third post I have tried to write this morning. I can type fast, but not fast enough to keep up with the resignations amongst
Parliament reviews Investigations into Child Sex Abuse.
Lord Lexden, who used to be Alistair Cooke, a fine author and researcher before acquiring his ermine robes, rose to speak in the House of Lords on Friday.
He paid homage to Carolyn Hoyle
Continue reading →‘What’s Gove got to do, got to do, with it?’
Very little, I suspect. However, Mrs Gove, or Lady MacVine (in the bedroom, with the
Continue reading →Mrs Murrell Goes to Brussels.
Mensheviks v. Leninists.
You may be surprised to learn that Labour, under Mr Corbyn’s leadership, does have a ‘strategy and communications chief’ – the millionaire Seumas Milne.
The current chaos suggested that this was a party in disarray
Continue reading →Corbynoses and the Book of Brexodus.
And the children of Blair were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. They were known henceforth as the Blairites.
Now there arose up a new king
Continue reading →A Very British Revolution.
Seeing Cameron with stiff upper lip, facing the British press after the referendum results, I cannot get the image of Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in Bridge over the River Kwai out of my mind.
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So if we’re not Remainia, what happens next?
“Sneer at us, scare us, patronise us; but never forget; For we are the people of England, that have spoken now.”
With apologies to that nice Mr Chesterton!
Cap’n G has
Continue reading →Jo Cox and GoFundMe.
Even as we are exhorted not to discuss the ‘whys and wherefores’ of her murder, and in particular, not to ascribe our own beliefs to the possible motivation of Thomas
Continue reading →Suffer the little children under the EU…
Never mind David Cameron eating small roasted babies for breakfast, I’m more concerned with what the EU is doing to those wide eyed African babies this morning.
Starving them by way of penalising their parents,
Continue reading →Cox Fighting.
Such an undignified tussle over Jo Cox’s still warm corpse.
Who can make the most mileage in their chosen campaign by invoking her name?
Will you be sending off for the ‘false flag wristband’
Continue reading →Cliff Hanger comes to an End.
Cliff Richard’s punishment for being a wealthy celebrity who chose not to marry has come to an end. Two years of the Internet and the media being given free rein to speculate and fabricate