There is nothing so likely to induce a murderous rage in the most mild mannered of people as sibling rage over a last will and testament. Many a family can cite feuds
Continue reading →Testementary Testosterone.
The Money Tree
The ‘Poor Laws’ movement.
Happy Birthday!
Quote of the Day.
Charlie Booker in the Guardian……
In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. Unfortunately, facts are expensive, so to save costs and
Continue reading →Robert Green – Hollie Greig
I apologise for the length of this piece. There are a lot of facts to be laid out.
I would also ask before you tell me that I have left this or that fact out that you refer
Continue reading →Wishing Your Lundie’s in Public.
I am profoundly shocked this morning. Yet again a thoroughly decent man has been hounded from office by the paranoia and narrow minded venality of
Continue reading →Bureaucratic Pecking Order
Those who can peck,peck. Those who can’t peck,
teach pecking. Those who can’t teach pecking,
administer the teaching of pecking. Those who can’t administer the teaching of pecking,
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One Last Question – Columbo on the Case.
Some of you may remember the saga of the Libertarian candidate for Sutton and Cheam who found himself lampooned in his local paper as a ‘basque and fishnet stockings’
Continue reading →Chaytor, Devine, Morley and Hanningfield.
Balls for Leader Campaign Logo.
There is only one possible logo that would adequately
Continue reading →Victims and Villains.
The Daily
Continue reading →Knit-a-Tit.
The financially pressed NHS has commissioned the Mother’s Union in Somerset to hand knit 150 breasts. They are ‘cheaper than’ the £35 a boob version they used Continue reading → Baroness Scotland Sings (apologies to Ray Davies)
Where you don’t stay long
Or you catch a dose of Ebola
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The Ribena Option.
More Global Hot Air!
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Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to a Nepalese Sherpa
Keep your chin up – it’s not that bad….
Abuse of Process.
I was so enraged by this case yesterday that my mind shut down. It literally would not countenance covering the subject and retreated instead into
Continue reading →A very Libertarian vacance.
The idea of being coerced into volunteering has never sat easily with the French. Memories of ‘pour encourager les autres’ a little too close for
Continue reading →Is Labour fit to Oppose?
Around 10 years ago, I was visiting a patient in Wood Green, North London. As we finished talking I glanced at my watch – running late for next appointment! I fled to
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Raccoon’s ‘gone on the missing list’ edition…….. Raedweld defaces the currency. Witterings sees the end of Democracy. Mrs Rigby farms Continue reading → Coalition Repeal Bill.
“And as we tear through the statute book, we’ll do something
Continue reading →Trigger Happy.
With all the excitement of finding myself surrounded by cross-dressers on Election Day, as the serious business of counting the votes in Cambridge collided with the theatre showing the eternally popular Rocky
Continue reading →Strident on Trident.
One of the first tasks that the civil service will have ensured that David Cameron carries out – within minutes of his return from Buckingham Palace – is re-writing the
Continue reading →Objective or Subjective Charging?
Court of Protection: That Straw Man’s Confidence Trick Dissected.
Straw, the
Continue reading →Organised Chaos.
There I was, pondering the media reports of our shambles of an election, wondering where to start investigating how it should
Continue reading →Nursing the news along.
Pass the sick bag Alice!
I note ‘the image will be changed shortly’….do they know something we don’t? Those with Photoshop ability are invited to submit their updated versions to this site as and when… Edited to Continue reading → A cash crop.
Mr G picked up a curiosity at our local vide-grenier this morning. It had a handle beautifully turning in hedgerow Holly. Mounted on top was a gourd, painted with a scene of
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