My apologies folks – a catalogue of woes coming up, but if I am to continue blogging and running a non-aligned blog for you all to chat in, then I need
Continue reading →I need your help to clear my name.
German Finance Minister calculates Greek debt on Sudoko game…
Now, let me see – every column must contain nine numbers and a nought – mustn’t repeat a number in any column – yup, the Greek debt is 17 trillion, 4 million and…
Start again,
Continue reading →R.I.P – PC David Rathband
Early last evening, as we all settled down with our families for an evening of relaxation, the blighted life of PC David Rathband drew to a close. He was alone, alone with his thoughts, alone
Continue reading →Exclusive: Prime Minster refuses to confirm whether he colluded in horsepay.
This is what happens when decent journalists are too scared to pay Old Bill for top notch stories – we end up with a media pawing at the ground and
Continue reading →Come on Baby, do the Local Motion with me!
Everybody’s doin’ a brand new walk now,
(Come on baby, do the local motion)
I know you’ll get to like it if you give it a chance
Lord James of Blackheath – Wagging a Wondrous Tale.
This is a long one – you might want to save it for after the pub on Friday night – it’ll make your eyes bleed just as effectively as a
Continue reading →Polly puts the kettle on…
Nominally we are all “journalists” under the press code of practice, but this rough trade has none of the attributes of a “profession”. Instead of
Continue reading →Ms Raccoon pontificates….
The supremacy of the Church over magic and superstition demanded that it should take over their functions ‘Everything that can be naturally done is done by God’ a 12th century
Continue reading →‘I will survive’…in the worst possible taste.
Libel, Slander, Calumny and Vilification
In common, I dare say, with many other Bloggers, we are e-mailed from time to time by ‘journalism students’. Usually we are as friendly and as helpful as
Continue reading →British Pensioners and the Scottish Referendum.
The argument is that the economic, social and political policies which can and would be pursued by an independent Scotland
Continue reading →A policeman’s lot is not a rhyming one…
Or writing up his pension plan
His capacity for spouting doggerel
Should be just as good as any other man
His desire to rest he must smother
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News of the World Disinterred
Is there any reputation so putrid, so tarnished, that it cannot be further damaged? Gordon Brown excepted, I suspect not.
A boulder has been pushed away from the cave into which the poor old News of
Continue reading →Reinventing the Wheel.
Ever since Oliver Cromwell galloped across the Fens to Cambridge in 1640, politicians have been obsessed with spending money to ‘improve’ transport to that city.
The
Continue reading →Keep on Smoking.
It’s official. There is a peril more likely to carry you off to your maker in the wee small hours of the morn than smoking. It must be so, the
Continue reading →Hic Sunt Dracones
Ms Raccoon has undertaken a perilous and mind altering journey on your behalf. Not quite LSD, more LSE, but the effects are akin. I
Continue reading →The Compensation Culture and the NHS.
The Treasury has had a nasty shock this week, bought on a fit of the vapors, it has.
“Claims for clinical negligence outstanding at
Continue reading →Global Warming and British Pensioners.
Now that global warming has covered the whole of Europe in a thick blanket of snow,
Continue reading →Exclusive: BBC incites offences under the Protection of Children Act?
Delicious!
I have taken the precaution of some screen shots, perchance the BBC should realise what they have done before you read this.
It all started
Continue reading →Too Stupid for Sex – Episode 2.
Mention the name Enoch Powell, and within minutes someone will reference his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. Arguably, and sadly, that speech did nothing to change the marching speed of the progressives.
It was not the
Continue reading →Something for the Week-end, Sir?
Nothing divides the Serfs from the Masters so much as whether your working ‘week’ includes Saturday and Sunday or not.
In the Hospitality Industry, expecting a day off
Continue reading →Huhne Dun It? A Liberal Judge Sums up in the Trial of a Liberal Politician.
Takes One to Know One.
An absolutely barking quietly eccentric neighbour of mine was going home one day when he spied a baby buzzard sitting by the roadside. He thought he’d take it home with him;
BBC supports the ‘right’ to smoke…
What a delicious pickle the BBC and the left wingers have got themselves into. In a desperate attempt to portray the hardship that the proposed benefit cap will inflict on
Continue reading →Body Image and the Feminist Agenda.
‘Fat is a Feminist Ishooo’ ran the old joke. Many a true word spoken in jest.
It is no secret that I have long believed Lynne Featherstone to
Continue reading →A miss is as good as a mile for Calamity Kenny.
Labour’s publicity sous-chef, Kenny Young, expert on all matters Glaswegian, must be whistling softly through his teeth this morning. A narrow escape.
A scant few hours before the thinned ranks of the faithful turned up in
Continue reading →*rick Cyclists
There is a presumption amongst the guerrilla army of neo-Marxist, Guardian reading, sanctimonious commuters known as cyclists that the only motor driven vehicle they
Continue reading →Bonus Envy.
In my good friend Dr. Fraud’s Psychotic Wagehike Development theory, which extrapolated his Bonus Envy thesis, the ‘too late to cancel’ stage (approximately 3.5 to 6 months before the Olympics are held) is the first period of
Continue reading →Another Assault on Family Values.
“Millions of cancer carers missing out on benefits“
I shall overlook, on this occasion, the oxymoron of the Telegraph headline – they go on to say that 5% of the 1.1 million cancer
Continue reading →Synchronised Wimmin.
The Labour Party has clasped the clitorally vulnerable victim-hood of the Feministas to its bosom and bitterly resents any attempt to portray an ideologically opposed female as representing ‘Feminism’ at any level. Witness last night’s riveting Newsnight
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