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Mission Satirical

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by Petunia Winegum on June 27, 2015

Exactly twelve months ago, I was summoned to an office by a distinguished and venerable media magnate, a room of such vast expanse that the intimidating distance between the door I entered through and the monolithic mahogany

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Not in Front of the Children (4)/25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on June 20, 2015

We started with sex and – surprise, surprise – here we go again. Race and disability can take a back seat; when it comes to Percy Filth, we Brits excel like few others. Yet, this week’s word

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Not in Front of the Children (3)/25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on June 13, 2015

In the first two instalments of our look at the English language’s permanent residents of the naughty step, we examined two of the most unspeakable words linked to sex and race respectively. Now we turn our attention

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Not in Front of the Children (2)/25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on June 6, 2015

OK, the second instalment of our guide to the most taboo words in the English language focuses on what, along with ‘Cunt’, is one guaranteed to break the ice at parties… Continue reading →

The 25 Hour News and the Saturday Obituary

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by Petunia Winegum on May 23, 2015


Until I was ten, portrayals of school in fiction seemed stuck in the 1950s or even further back. ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’ serialised on Sunday teatimes on BBC1 or ‘Just William’

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The 25 Hour News and The King is Dead

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by Petunia Winegum on May 16, 2015


The death of Blues guitarist BB King at the age of 89 yesterday didn’t just mark the end of a life or even a career of impressive longevity;

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The 25 Hour News and Dead Ed: An Obituary

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by Petunia Winegum on May 9, 2015


 

Ed Miliband is a Bill Wyman solo album. William’s dubious personal peccadilloes aside, in terms of doing his job, he was the kind of guy you’d

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25 Hour News Election Special & A Day in The Life of The Electorate

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by Petunia Winegum on May 7, 2015


The first General Election I remember was the February 1974 one; I quickly warmed to the concept when I realised I got a day off school, even if

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25 Hour News and 5 Days to Choose

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by Petunia Winegum on May 2, 2015


Unless you’ve been inhabiting a cave over the past month (granted, not an unappealing notion), then what is scheduled to take place this coming Thursday won’t have escaped

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 25, 2015

Des Freedman in the Islington Tribune – “the media consists less of an honourable array of impartial and independent organisations than a series of institutions which are intimately connected to

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The 25 Hour News/Do You Remember The First Time?

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by Petunia Winegum on April 18, 2015


 

Whether or not any of you choose to participate come May 7, chances are you’ve participated in the past – perhaps when you were less cynical

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The 25 Hour News and The Millennium Blues

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by Petunia Winegum on April 11, 2015


Y2K – remember that? It was going to screw-up the world’s computers on New Year’s Day 2000, and we’d all travel back in time to 1900.

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 4, 2015

Barthnotes on the UK Satanic Panic re-emergence.

Saff on ‘Pulp Fiction’ and whatever happened to Tim Tate’s book?

Tim Tate re-emerges with his reputation intact

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The 25 Hour News and You Decide…

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by Petunia Winegum on March 27, 2015


OK, it’s the question on everyone’s lips, the most important news item of the week bar none, the issue galvanising the nation into making a crucial choice that will affect

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The 25 Hour News and the 45 Year Blues

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by Petunia Winegum on March 21, 2015


So, our journey back 25, 35 and 40 years arrives at my own personal terminus of 1970 – 45 years ago. This, for me, is the dawn of time

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The 25 Hour News and the 40 Year Blues

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by Petunia Winegum on March 14, 2015


Our previous Raccoon ‘golden hour’ outings took us back 25 years to 1990 and then 35 years to 1980. This time round, in order that I the author can

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The 25 Hour News and the 35 Year Blues

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by Petunia Winegum on March 7, 2015


A couple of weeks ago, I (inspired by ‘er upstairs) invited you to share your memories of where you were 25 years ago. Today it’s time to take

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The 25-Hour News and The Immigration News They Buried…

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by Anna Raccoon on February 28, 2015


Over here, over fed, and probably over sexed. These bastards and bitches have been flooding in through the port of Dover via Calais, with barely a cursory intervention by the authorities.

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25 Hour News and 25 Year Blues

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by Petunia Winegum on February 21, 2015

 

Our beloved landlady suggested this additional feature, which should get a few of you going. What was your life like 25 years ago? Believe it or not, that’s

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25 Hour News & The Ladybird Library

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by Petunia Winegum on February 14, 2015

  The usual weekly bulletin and an additional feature, as requested by some… 002 Continue reading →

DIY Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on February 7, 2015

Hey! Let’s get interactive like ‘the kids’! Post your own links to your favourite blogs of the week below…

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The 25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on January 31, 2015

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The 25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on January 24, 2015

A news week so eventful, even the blogs that normally share space on this post have had to make way!

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 10, 2015

Have the Terrorists already won? Frank Fisher. French v. English coverage of the Hebdo massacre in Quebec. David Attenborough – Population control – so long as I can have

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 3, 2015

Michael Hanlon on ‘Why human progress has ground to a halt‘.

Luke Gittos on the cult of #Ibelieveher.

SEX OFFENDERS should not be allowed to

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25 Hour News Review of 2014

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by Petunia Winegum on December 27, 2014

An hour-long look back at the key events of the year in the usual 25 Hour News style… Petunia Winegum

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25- Hour News.

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by Anna Raccoon on December 20, 2014

The Last Communist City by Michael Totten. Marilyn Stowe on Media Access to the Family Courts. Old Holborn on Humouring the Humourless. Archbishop Cranmer – Continue reading →

Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on December 13, 2014

A reflection on the British legal system’s continuing fascination with the 1970s… http://jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/fadle-to-black.html#!/2014/12/fadle-to-black.html

And another surreal take on the same decade (though not much odder than some recent

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25 Hour News

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by Petunia Winegum on December 6, 2014

    A sad observation on the disappearance of distinctive and unfashionable London landmarks… http://greatwen.com/2014/12/04/earls-court-and-the-death-of-fun-in-london/ The good folk of Scarfolk are as reliably strange as ever…

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News

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by Anna Raccoon on November 29, 2014

Not so much a blog post but an on-line book – worth reading if you are interested in Conspiracy Theories. (Now you know why Ms Raccoon was late with this post

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