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Class and the Common Girl.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 23, 2015

Reading one of Moor Larkin’s excellent posts the other night, an excerpt from the Pollard report caught my eye. I had seen it before, but in isolation; now I was reading it again in conjunction with

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Obama Vista Social Club

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by Petunia Winegum on August 28, 2015

Family feuds can drag on for decades. We’ve all known siblings who had a big bust-up over something years ago, something nobody can even remember anymore, and still refuse to be in the same room as one another,

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The Filth and The Fuehrer

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by Petunia Winegum on July 19, 2015

Viewing the past through the prism of the present is slowly becoming accepted practice. At one end of the scale, we have the conspiracy industry that has now turned its attention away from the JFK assassination and

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Straight to Hellas

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by Petunia Winegum on July 3, 2015

With creditors at the door, Greece hovers on the brink of bankruptcy, is finally declared insolvent and then has to be bailed out by an international financial authority. No, not 2015, but 1893. I’ll refrain from saying

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Flagged as Inappropriate

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by Petunia Winegum on June 25, 2015

When Oasis signed to Creation Records in 1993, Liam Gallagher was asked why the sleeve of the band’s demo tape had featured a striking image of the Union Jack looking as though it was being sucked down

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Hall and (Wild) Oats

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by Gildas the Monk on February 13, 2015

Well, we have now had four episodes of ‘Wolf Hall’ and I read that audiences have been dropping faster than Anne Boleyn’s knickers. I have been glued to my recliner of late (not been too well

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The Real White Queen – The Three Widows

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by Gildas the Monk on August 4, 2013

A little while ago archeologists discovered what turned out to be the body of the last English King to die in battle. Richard III died in battle at Bosworth Field on 22nd August 1485 defending his

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Who was the Man in the Iron Mask? – Part 2

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by Gildas the Monk on June 30, 2013

A few weeks ago I commenced my quest to search for the truth behind the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. Having tried to bring as much salacious gossip to the fore as

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Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?

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by Gildas the Monk on May 26, 2013

Some months ago, my dear French friend Dr. Firenza Pesta set me a challenge which has given rise to a certain degree of obsession amongst some historians and academics, particularly in France: who was the Man

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Much abides

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by Chris on April 8, 2013

When Margaret Thatcher is returned to the dust whence she came from and where she shall return like all of us, a little bit of a bygone age will go with her. She will be eulogised — but,

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Danse Macabre: The Black Death, Part I

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by Gildas the Monk on December 9, 2012

Consider a world in which over the next three months, between 30-50% of the people around you have died of a horrible disease, full of fever and boils, often vomiting blood. What would that be like?

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Girl in a Box.

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by Gildas the Monk on November 18, 2012

This week I shall say a prayer for the late Elizabeth Mitchell, and maybe go to mass for her. You will probably never have heard of her. I had not either, until last week.

Elizabeth

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Polly Maths

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by Matt Wardman on August 2, 2012

Here we go again. Polly Toynbee had a narrative rant this week after Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony. Half of it is soaring rhetoric; the other half an assortment of claims alleged

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The Sunday Ramble

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by Gildas the Monk on July 1, 2012

Welcome to both regulars and those new to The Raccoon Arms. Pick a pint of your favourite tipple (unless that happens to be wine or single malt in which case that might be a tad over the top)

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Archbishop Cranmer and the ASA Holes

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by Matt Wardman on May 12, 2012

The Advertising Standards Authority has received a series of complaints about the above Coalition for Marriage advert running on Archbishop Cranmer’s weblog.

The complaints are about the claimed 70% figure

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The advance of technology

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by SadButMadLad on May 11, 2012

I’m sure many of you will remember the tech of yesteryear. Yep, I mean the VCRs and tape recorders and record players that were

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The French Experiment

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by Matt Wardman on May 7, 2012

We have a new experiment.

Monsieur François Hollande est Le Président de la République.

The most immediate effect is that we all have

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Reasons to be Chairful

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by Matt Wardman on February 16, 2012

For 4 years I worked in High Wycombe, the one-time capital of the world chair industry, due to Buckinghamshire beechwoods and skilled craftsmen.

In Gloucester they roll cheeses down

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Time for Republic Bye Byes?

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by Matt Wardman on February 14, 2012

The oldest human being recorded in modern times was Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived from 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997.

During

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Skunk as a Lord?

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by Matt Wardman on February 3, 2012

Skunk: A person regarded as obnoxious or despicable.

Sir Fred has been shredded.

But it was done with considerable input

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Empty heads and empty tents at St Paul’s Cathedral #olsx

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by Matt Wardman on October 26, 2011

 These #occupy demonstrations at St Paul’s Cathedral are brilliantly revealing.

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How To Be Sectioned: Part 1

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by Gildas the Monk on September 9, 2011

How difficult can it be to get myself sectioned under the Mental Health Act?

Not at all difficult, I suspect.

Probably all I have to do is write

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Killer Queen

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by Gildas the Monk on September 1, 2011

A mini convention of Raccoonistas occurred the other weekend, with various contributors to the blog turning up at Madam La Raccoon’s “chateau” in south west France.

My chief contribution to this weekend was

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Gaddafi and MI6

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by Charles Crawford on August 31, 2011

The latest development in the relationship between MI6 and Muammar Gaddafi is a price of £1m placed on his head. Charles Crawford recounts the history of an ‘interesting’ relationship.

Soon after the US-led attack on Saddam Hussein began,

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Euro: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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by Charles Crawford on August 27, 2011

One of the greatest passages in the Bible:

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I know not,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

When

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Why we need to know the truth about Hillsborough

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by Daz Pearce on August 27, 2011

The e-petitions initiative is something that has clearly caught on, as demonstrated initially by the  lively debate on the death penalty.

There has been another petition doing the rounds this month calling for

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Life in the goldfish bowl.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 2, 2011

I have always been fascinated by how the law, invariably shaped to deal with the ‘hard cases’ that make the headlines and force change, pans out to affect the ordinary, the mundane, the banal, that vast chunk

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Carpetbagging the women of SOE

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by Matt Wardman on June 8, 2011

This week in the Lords there was a debate about the need to recognise the ‘women of SOE’. As Baroness Crawley put it:

In this Question for Short

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Fortean Times

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by Anna Raccoon on April 24, 2011

A few days ago in the course of de-constructing the bogus science in a piece in the Daily Fail, regular Raccoonista and general stalwart SadButMadLad made a passing reference to the “Tunguska Event”.

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Unlikely Heroes Of The Revolution

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by Andrew P Withers on January 14, 2011

I was recently introduced to a character from recent history by David Farrer of the Libertarian Alliance who is an unlikely hero of the Classical Liberal Revolution and a

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