An embargoed report was snuck out at midnight, last night. Just imagine, for one moment, that this report concerned 436 Football coaches dismissed in one 24 month period for ‘abuse of authority for sexual gain’: or Continue reading →Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
An embargoed report was snuck out at midnight, last night. Just imagine, for one moment, that this report concerned 436 Football coaches dismissed in one 24 month period for ‘abuse of authority for sexual gain’: or Continue reading →Wrongful Allegations…
I can happily read books until my eyes bleed. I love to learn. I particularly love books that can teach me something new, cause me to stop reading, stare into the middle distance – and perhaps
Homo Affairs Select Committee
I really don’t like Keith Vaz.
I don’t like his posturing, his jumping on every available bandwagon, his readiness to ruin the reputation of others and the glee with which he does it.
Eurovision, Tunnel Vision, and other visions.
Normally, Ms Raccoon stays as far away from the European Broadcasting Union
Continue reading →Credible Witnesses, Navel Battles, & Hypocritical Whingers.
Credible Witnesses.
The ever gullible Surrey Police seem to have reversed their much publicised ‘arrest first, investigate later’ policy; this time they investigated – then arrested their ‘credible witness’.
It was
Continue reading →#Spingate hits the buffers.
What is it with Labour? They are incapable of finding a spinmeister who can keep all his tales in the air.
Andy Coulson, for all his faults, would never have let Cameron be caught
Continue reading →Exclusive – Stephen Hamilton
There is a worrying shuffling of feet and staring into the middle distance in Academia. It is understandable – there is not much point in sticking your neck out so far that you end up with
Foot Loose and Fancy Free in the Park.
Ms Raccoon still has her head firmly embedded in another case and it has become obvious that it won’t be ready for publication today – so here is a little light relief to keep you amused
Potpourri – No.17
Morphine seems to have stunned everything north of the neck as well as its required task, and I can’t keep my mind on any one subject. So have several different ones, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
PopinJays.
Popinjay n. a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter.
Professor Alexis Jay has fallen victim to the popinjays ‘having a pop’ within a day of being appointed to take an exhilarating
Southwest of Salem.
Remember the days, not so long ago, when to suggest that there existed such a thing as a ‘false sexual allegation’ saw you under siege on Twitter for days on end? It was a ‘vile’ suggestion
Is Homophobia suddenly acceptable?
Colour me confused. I was under the impression that any suggestion of AIDS being ‘the gay plague’ was the ultimate example of homophobia? Didn’t David Cameron and Nick Clegg both demand that the ‘horrific slur’ that
Last of the Dodos.
‘What first attracted you to Fleet Street, Mr Hack?’ is a question which has never been answered adequately.
‘Tis a toss up whether it was the proliferation of ale houses, providing refuge from the
Continue reading →Nurturing Porkies.
Porkie Farming nearly became a profitable business.
Back in 2007, a young carpenter registered a company ‘Ddc Contracts‘, to carry out a joinery business, along with ‘possibly’ his partner, Lorraine
Continue reading →Sam Tân and Gay Parents.
Not since Sam Tân stood in a whoopsie, which admittedly was only yesterday M’lud, a microscopic time in outrage land; has there been such a scramble to censor a so far unseen episode of ‘baby sitting for busy
Continue reading →Wow! Media coverage as extra judicial punishment…!!!
An Australian judge has recognised that the media coverage that those with some vestigial claim to celebrity attract when appearing in
Continue reading →Who Owns Your Inner Secrets?
Whips in parliament operate by controlling information that individual MPs would not want to escape. The Catholic priest enjoyed a measure of control over his community by virtue of what he knew. Blackmailers work on the
Feeding Time at the Legal Zoo.
It started with a lie; a false allegation; a mendacity, a calumny, a canard. However you dress it up, it simply wasn’t true.
40 year-old Georgina Ray decided that the only possible reason
Continue reading →BrExaro means BrExaro.
The suppurating boil on the face of journalism, oozing vituperative stories, usually with a left-wing sting in the tail, that has been the internet agency Exaro, has, if one can believe a word that Mark Watts,
Their Satanic Travesties.
Yesterday, the long running saga of ‘delusional, obsessional, irrational and odd’ individuals who have littered the internet with requests for funds to help them bring to justice a supposed band of Satanic baby eaters and paedophiles
The Morality Police.
What is a Police Force to do with falling crime figures? Not enough murder and property theft to go round the employees? Start shedding
Continue reading →Hidden in Plain Sight?
Yesterday, it was confirmed that Adam Johnson was to remain the poster child for those such as the NSPCC that wish us to believe that the gravest danger likely to to befall a child was coming
Parliament reviews Investigations into Child Sex Abuse.
Lord Lexden, who used to be Alistair Cooke, a fine author and researcher before acquiring his ermine robes, rose to speak in the House of Lords on Friday.
He paid homage to Carolyn Hoyle
Continue reading →Jo Cox and GoFundMe.
Even as we are exhorted not to discuss the ‘whys and wherefores’ of her murder, and in particular, not to ascribe our own beliefs to the possible motivation of Thomas
Continue reading →Cox Fighting.
Such an undignified tussle over Jo Cox’s still warm corpse.
Who can make the most mileage in their chosen campaign by invoking her name?
Will you be sending off for the ‘false flag wristband’
Continue reading →Cliff Hanger comes to an End.
Cliff Richard’s punishment for being a wealthy celebrity who chose not to marry has come to an end. Two years of the Internet and the media being given free rein to speculate and fabricate
Inventative Journalism.
Is ‘Inventative’ a word? I wasn’t sure – it suited my purposes as an alternative to ‘Investigative’ but I couldn’t find it in the dikshunary. (I do use one occasionally!)
My search for the
Continue reading →“Being wrongly accused of rape is no minor slight”.
Alexander Economou – Not Guilty of Harassment!
The Economou/de Freitas story was destined to attract global attention in these feminista times. He said/she said has become the bread and butter of the media –
Continue reading →Swallows and Amazons.
Gosh! Was it really 60 years ago today that I was eight years old? Did the sun really shine all day in June back then? Did I really cycle from Westleton to Dunwich day after day,
Peak Guardian and sautéed Cephalopods.
“No one who considers themselves interested in the inner lives of animals, the wonders and mysteries of the natural world, can eat cephalopods in good conscience.”
You’d probably have to be a Guardian reader
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