Close your eyes and imagine this scenario: although no-one is particularly complaining about some vague and menacing-sounding situation involving children, the government has decided that it has to be seen to be doing something.
Anna Raccoon
The Perfect Politician
With its Trougher shaped features, tentacles reaching out into many different pies, transparently full of sh*t, it dwells beneath the surface of our understanding, and is always smiling to itself….
I give you, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, a
Continue reading →Past Lives and the NHS.
I posted yesterday on the different attitude between France and the UK to families being present in a hospital and helping nurse their relatives. I hadn’t appreciated until the comments started coming in – and a couple
Continue reading →Back When We Had Time to Care…
Are you old enough to remember when you went through the weekly budget with a pencil, working out whether you could afford to go down to DER and rent a TV? Remember when carpets only covered the
Continue reading →Hari Harigals.
You don’t have to lift Johann Hari’s shirt tail far to reveal a nest of brown nosed friends positively panting to rehabilitate him, or whatever they call it these days.
We have a fine example this
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The Blogess and how to reply to spam mail. Leg-Iron on the Americans and Irony. Nic Lowe on Engineering Laws.
Continue reading →The Fox and Hounds.
Fox hunting may be considered an odd occupation for the politically correct left, but they make an exception for old Liam. Reynard flâneur. A walker. (I am indebted to Charon QC for introducing me to that
Continue reading →Rewriting History.
There is a sound reason why sane people don’t study the Law – it fries your brain. Normal people wish to retain a few brain cells to enable them to do ordinary things – like cross the
Continue reading →God help us!
The European Commission believes it is backed by a “silent majority” in favour of its push for further EU integration and potential future role as the economic government of Europe.
I didn’t make
Continue reading →“Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath Huhne out her seven pillars:”
In the course of current debate about the future of press regulation, there is a risk that any form of regulation will become a byword for draconian state interference – employed by none so oft as our
Continue reading →BoJo Mojo
It was this photograph that tipped me over the edge.
Mr and Mrs Marks and Spencer modelling the conference ‘limited edition’ special.
The Halfords’ Area Manager arriving for the Chairman’s annual garden party.
Just
Continue reading →The Scheming Power of Pisa.
Take good note of the face above – it belongs to Nick Pisa, professional journalist; one of that breed of trained fact gatherers and disseminators of trustworthy information essential to society – without such valued souls, we
Continue reading →My Big Fat Alternative Eviction.
There can be no doubting that Robert Stephenson’s intentions were honourable; a Catholic who had experienced great hardship following the Reformation. He risked everything, including his own life, to provide shelter for Catholic priests.
He
Continue reading →Competition – Who said…?
“I had never seen so many £50 notes. Our friendship was undoubtedly consolidated that afternoon in our knickers”.
A bumper pack of Basset’s Liquorish Allsorts for the first correct answer – bonus points for knowing who
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Pussy Snatch.
You wait years to use some headlines…..
John Hemmings MP ex -wife has just been found guilty of breaking into his lover’s house and stealing her kitten.
Continue reading →PC Plod lumbers to a conclusion.
Oh dear, things haven’t been the same in Oxford since Inspector Morse meandered his way through a half hour programme and only solved the crime when Sergeant Lewis pointed out the obvious to the cantankerous old git…..
Give Fate A Chance.
Lives are thrown into the High Court punchbowl like so many suburban key rings, and we gather round like priapic husbands, raucously commenting on the options picked out by the early life swappers.
‘Coo, don’t fancy
Continue reading →A curious sensation
Let us examine the record: unprecedented electoral success for his party; massive approval ratings; vast donations to the party. An inspired political strategy that appeared to marry conflicting goals. A media management strategy that still defines
Continue reading →Would you happen to know?
The answer to some technical questions which are beyond me at the moment?
Thanks to the generosity of one of my readers (you know who you are, bless you!) I have been given an Ipad to
Continue reading →Big Ern and the beneficial properties of HP sauce
Do you ever have days when it all goes wrong?
I was all ready to go home last Friday; scrubbed, showered, dressed, packed, taxi arrived, waved off into lift on the second floor.
By the time the
Continue reading →Another question for “the left”
I was perusing this piece on regulation, and something familiar leaped out of the text:
The Portland area’s response to the lack of affordable housing has been the implementation
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A genuine question. Or two.
I have often railed against the behaviour of “the left” when it comes to confusing intentions with outcome. I have on occasion even said that I really don’t care how heartless or cruel the motive is,
Continue reading →E-petitions: the modern professional penitent?
I was reading about the terrible case of Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a policeman in in the US:
The federal court that finally reviewed evidence of Davis’ innocence
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Two Headed Snakes.
The patchwork quilt known as the European Union, which was forcibly flung around our shoulders to protect us from the chill wind as our Sovereignty was stolen, is coming apart at the seams.
The ‘fat quarters’,
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
The hierarchy of grief.
The reporter assured us that he thought he saw a tear in Peter Hain’s eye. The last time something resembling that was spotted, it was the day he announced his resignation after the police launched an investigation
Continue reading →It’s a Wonderful World…
We have this theory in the Western world whereby we remunerate the most able handsomely and give them titles and everything, and then we listen carefully to that which they spout.
It’s a good theory, but
Continue reading →Lord Hanningfield Freed? Not so fast, my lovely!
Not so fast, my lovely, that electronic tag on your ankle was put there for a reason – so they would know where you are.
Last week Hanningfield was released from jail after only nine weeks
Continue reading →Like a Moth to the Flame.
Gosh, Hansard can be exciting.
Just watch the Indian born Conservative Peer Baroness Shreela Flather fluttering her wings around the everlasting flame of partitional racism last night.
Gasp in wonder as The Sun gets hold
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