The Danger of Following The Sun.
Trussed Up by Norfolk Tories.
Conservative Central just don’t get it. They pay lip service to the idea that the electorate are up in arms about MPs expenses, they mutter that the electorate are ‘our Masters’, then
Continue reading →Catching Balls, Twitterati Supremo.
Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children.
Salary: £142,000 pa
Claimed expenses: £21,429 last year
Outlined above is the official nature of Ed Balls’ job
Continue reading →Is it ‘cos I’s Black?
Two days ago we had the farce of searching South London for a 25 stone Afro-Caribbean woman based on the sole information being that she had a mole under her
Continue reading →Court of Protection: Masters of Lunacy
The Mail on Sunday holds out the delicious prospect that we may yet see some ‘naked’ civil servants. Whilst I have lambasted them previously for their inaccurate reporting, they have taken another bite
Continue reading →Helping the Police with their Enquiries.
I heard on the radio that a ‘dangerous murderess’ had been taken for a stroll round the local ‘Toys ‘R’ Us’ and decided not to return to the secure mental hospital whence we had thought she was safely
Continue reading →Proportional Humiliation.
One of the ‘events’ I missed during my three day sleep in, was the defeat in parliament of the removal of the ‘freedom of expression’ amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill.
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Lost Encounters……
Raccoontrack would like to apologise for the lack of buffet car on the 11/11/09; the non-appearence of the 12/11/09, and the 13/11/09. Wrong kind of sheep, leaves on the track, too much wind Continue reading → The future in the Coffee Grounds.
Isn’t this clever? It is now five minutes to three in the afternoon, the Prime Minister isn’t even in the chamber – and the Spectator started telling us what he said three hours Continue reading → Hissing Brown and the ‘S’ word.
Jamie Janes of the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards
Jacqui Janes is the woman we need in Parliament.
Whichever party has the wit to sign her up as Parliamentary
Continue reading →Let them Eat Whine and Erections for the Whining Clergy.
Fresh from whining during ‘Alcohol Awareness Week’ about the estimated 91,000 deaths that will occur in the next decade due to the over consumption of evil booze, which is apparently an ‘unacceptably high death toll’ amongst
Continue reading →The Difference a Word Makes…
What to do with a Shrink on the Brink?
The Women in Parliament.
God! I will pack, and take a train…
And get me to England once again!
When Rupert Brooke wrote those lines, his England was a rural idyll that represented welcome relief from the turmoil and
Continue reading →What is a Backbencher?
Whadderwewant?
Whadderwewant?
Twenty million quid!
Whydowewannit?
‘Cos we’re borassic thanks to bankers, Patricia Hewitt, an’ being crap!
Howdewegerrit?
By destroying the UK holiday sector!
Yippee!
Twenty million
Continue reading →Nellie the Elephant…
Historians delight in calling this or that epoch ‘The age of enlightenment’ or ‘The industrial revolution’. But for those in charge, every age is one where inherent contradictions have to be denied.
Continue reading →Orwell Prize 2010
The previous winners of the Orwell Prize have been illustrious political writers.
The prize was founded in 1993 by Sir Bernard Crick who, through his long-standing connection with The Political Quarterly, had negotiated with them
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading
Gone Fishing!
I leave you all in the capable hands of Ms Smudd and Master Ward, who will continue to amuse and exasperate in equal quantities.
I shan’t
Continue reading →Lordy, Lordy, look who’s 40!
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the creation of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. On that day in 1969 a small laboratory on the UCLA campus unleashed a force which has
Continue reading →Flash Gordon now has 40 days to save the world.
10 days ago, Flash Gordon announced that he had less than 50 days in which to save the world. The main stream press have responded to his dilemma in magnificent fashion, and the suggestions
Continue reading →What is the measure of a society ? Court of Protection
I ask this question because there is a maxim that says “a nation is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens”. This is from US President Hubert H. Humphrey and the full quote is:
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Official No 10 Website………..
The pills must be working!
Court of Protection
I am so coldly, rigidly, white knuckled angry, that at 3am I still can’t sleep.
The cause of my anger is an article, so poorly researched, so sensationalist, so, so utterly, incompetently wrong, written by a ‘Whitehall Editor’
Continue reading →Hain Claims Vindication.
Ex-Minister Peter Hain leaving the scene of yet another little misunderstanding in 1969.
HAIN CLAIMS VINDICATION – BUT HE NEEDS TO LOOK HARDER AT THE NUMBERS
Peter
Continue reading →So, it was Rape!
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading…
Tory Politico on ‘Taking the Biscuit’ Pub Philosopher on the ‘White working class’. Frank Furedi on being Phobic Continue reading → When you have the time…..
This is the Alex Jones documentary, released yesterday: The Fall of the Republic.
Almost two hours long, (and there are already rumours that Continue reading →
Almost two hours long, (and there are already rumours that Continue reading →