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 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;

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

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

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.

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

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.

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