Anna Raccoon – Page 88 – The Anna Raccoon Archives

Cardsharps and Mudslingers…..

by Saul – Cub reporter on April 23, 2009

Like a Hollywood villain (but without the maniacal laughter) the mask of Nu Labour was peeled back to reveal…well The Labour Party actually. The touchy feely, cool Britannia, things can only get better era

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The Right Honourable Prime Minister is ‘pickun an kewins’* again.

by Anna Raccoon on April 22, 2009

Gordon Brown’s curiously animated appearance on YouTube yesterday can only have been as a result of the Susan Boyle phenomena; someone had

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Quick – Blears at it too……..

by Anna Raccoon on April 21, 2009

If you want to know what’s being discussed in Downing Street these days, all you need is a press pass and a telephoto lens. The Communities Secretary Hazel Blears inadvertently leaked Gordon Brown’s proposals to

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What every young McBride should know before marriage……

by Anna Raccoon on April 19, 2009

It won’t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that ‘cooking up’ stories with ‘tough as old boot leather’ Balls, he was liable

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There is a case for full disclosure by any public body of any document … which would shed light on the disaster and its aftermath.

by Anna Raccoon on April 19, 2009

Andy Burnham was not talking about the disaster in Downing Street, but of the Hillsborough disaster. Today, instead of sitting on a sofa with her husband watching a movie or two, Jacqui Smith was hard at

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Another blogger threatened…..

by Anna Raccoon on April 18, 2009

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McMysogeny and Gynophobic Politics.

by Anna Raccoon on April 17, 2009

Who can forget the colourful outburst by Sir Richard Mottram, the permanent secretary at the Department of Transport, in response to news that special adviser Jo Moore had suggested 9/11 was a good day to bury

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Four webmasters jailed

by Anna Raccoon on April 17, 2009

A Swedish court has convicted four men linked to the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing site of breaking Sweden’s copyright law. It bills

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McBride, McCann, McSpin and McSmear

by Anna Raccoon on April 16, 2009

There has long been speculation regarding the high level of support the McCanns received from within the government when their daughter Madeleine disappeared. It has been defended as ‘normal government support’ for a family in distress – but was

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Gonçalo Amaral’s Documentary

by Anna Raccoon on April 11, 2009

Tagged as: Gerry

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Responsible Reportage, Myths and Mythology.

by Anna Raccoon on April 7, 2009

Ben Goldacre drew my attention to several articles on the responsibility the media must take for increasing aberrant behaviour by their very reporting of it. He was talking in particular

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Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…….

by Anna Raccoon on April 6, 2009

It tolls for thee, yeoman of the land of Magna Carta. Whilst you slumbered last night, and in the many months before, the sinister shape of Directive 2006/24/EC crept into your lives and stole your freedom

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The ‘Filth’ v the Filthy……..

by Anna Raccoon on April 2, 2009

There was an expectant air in the main stream media yesterday, waiting for ‘it’ to kick off. Waiting for ‘it’ to fill their column inches for them, for ‘it’ to

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Just to cheer us all up……

by Anna Raccoon on April 2, 2009

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Hold the presses – investigative journalism is not dead!

by Anna Raccoon on March 30, 2009

Many readers have turned away from newspapers towards the Internet, the Internet in turn has spawned a reversal of the accepted procedure whereby news filtered from

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Is Jacqui Smith’s husband a secret Conservative?

by Anna Raccoon on March 29, 2009 What other explanation can there be for his decision to download adult movies on pay-per-view cable TV, to be watched in Ms Smith’s ’second home’ in Redditch, and then allow his wife to … Continue reading →

Putting the boot in.

by Anna Raccoon on March 27, 2009

Jacqui Smith’s heart must have beat a little faster this week, when news reached her of the advances in the science of Internet censorship made in Germany. 11 German detectives descended on the

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Torn Posters and Shredded Lives.

by Anna Raccoon on March 27, 2009

This post is reproduced by kind permission of Astro at Jo Morais’s site. It is one of the most eloquent and poignant descriptions of the tremendous effort made by the people of Portugal to discover

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Excluded by inclusiveness.

by Anna Raccoon on March 26, 2009

Yesterday, the Communities secretary unveiled the new counter-terrorism strategy, known as Contest 2, a commitment to challenge those who “reject parliamentary democracy, dismiss the rule of law and promote intolerance and discrimination on the

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Something to cheer your evening……..

by Anna Raccoon on March 22, 2009

With thanks to Chatelaine.

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Life or Death?

by Anna Raccoon on March 21, 2009

This building may look remarkably like a great cathedral, but there is no God inside, just a High Court Judge. Today, a couple known only as Mr and Mrs T, are planning to spend their final

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The Great Firewall of Australia.

by Anna Raccoon on March 18, 2009

The Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy, has previously claimed that his proposed Internet censorship regime was focused on blocking ‘illegal sites’. Until now. At a Senate committee on Monday, Conroy

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Marching towards an imposed morality……..

by Anna Raccoon on March 17, 2009

All law is imposed morality. Law is never neutral; it rewards certain behaviours and agreement with those values doesn’t make them any less of an imposed morality. Despite the fact that it stakes a high moral

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Whinging and bingeing…..

by Anna Raccoon on March 16, 2009

During the past few days we have seen a Select Committee sit down with Max Mosley and Gerry McCann and discuss how the media has destroyed their lives by making gross and libellous accusations and

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The Beeb, Botnets, and Breaking the law.

by Anna Raccoon on March 15, 2009

On Friday, the World Wide Web was offically 20 years old. The BBC celebrated its birthday by explaining the inner working of a ‘botnet’. A botnet is a robotic network. A series

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See You Jimmy……

by Saul – Cub reporter on March 15, 2009

The most senior Labour Party official in Britain was caught up in a bizarre racism row last night after he was accused of insulting people who speak with a Scottish

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Huffiing over puffing…….spinning ‘a line’.

by Anna Raccoon on March 15, 2009

Before I say a word, I must declare a ‘non-interest’; I have never had so much as a ‘puff’ of weed

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Would you buy a used car from this man?

by Anna Raccoon on March 14, 2009

You may have to soon! The government is considering giving credits of 2,000 pounds to new-car buyers who turn in their old cars, The Times reported on Saturday. Business minister Peter Mandelson is looking closely

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Too little latitude.

by Mara MacSeoinin on March 14, 2009

Google’s new people-tracking software, Latitude – charmingly pegged as a way to “keep tabs on someone special” – is receiving what has become today’s typical response of ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ and ‘grave concerns

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Veracious Vera………..do explain!

by Anna Raccoon on March 12, 2009

Lord Ahmed who was jailed for 12 weeks for sending and receiving text messages while driving on the M1 has been released by the Court of Appeal. The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, made it clear his text messaging

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