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The Archer’s hitting the Feminist ‘G’ spot.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 23, 2016

“Switch off from Archers’ victim Helen and you’re no better than those who ignore domestic abuse in real life”

That is the damning opinion of Polly Neate, Chief Executive of ‘Women’s Aid.

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Victims and Survivors.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 18, 2016

Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…

It was 200 years

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Rural police left ‘sitting ducks’ by shortage of armed back-up.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 17, 2016

The Police Federation of England and Wales has warned the government the shortage of armed officers leave the country ‘vulnerable to a terror attack’.

John Apter, chairman of

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Charity Scammers and ‘Cancer Cures’.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 6, 2016

I really wish I had saved all the e-mails I get telling me of the weird and wonderful ways in which I could rid myself of cancer if I was only to send the writer money

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First School Kids’ Strike? Cobblers!

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by Anna Raccoon on May 3, 2016

“Thousands Support First School Kids’ Strike”.

Sky Headlines, 3rd May 2016.

Sky journalists really should go back to school. They are way behind with their history – as any teacher who

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Hogan-Howe: Cult Leader or Not in Control?

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by Anna Raccoon on May 2, 2016

Boris Johnson is a fan of Hogan-Howe. When Bernard Hogan-Howe said, in February 2016:

My […] proposal is for a clear public statement about our approach to victim testimony in these very sensitive cases. The

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Gender Benders.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 24, 2016

“We recognise that not all children and young people identify with the gender they were assigned at birth or may identify as a gender other than male or female, however the current systems (set nationally) only record gender

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On the multitude of ‘ex’-Met Police Officers.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 22, 2016

ex-Met Officer Adam Whittington.

Whilst the reputation of the Metropolitan Police may stink on home ground, it is still thought of highly in foreign parts. That may explain why there are so many ‘ex’-Met officers plying their

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A Private Tragedy – A Public Disgrace.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 15, 2016

Were you to Google the name – which I’m not going to give you! – you would come up with results running to four figures. Each of those news items have been read hundreds if not thousands of

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Misogynistic Brothel Creeps.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 13, 2016

Take your pick – the unfortunate Olivia is a ‘sex-worker’ in the Guardian;Â a ‘professional dominatrix and escort’ in the Socialist Worker; and ‘a prostitute’ in the Independent; nowhere have I seen her described as she

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iPorn, iPads and iPandas…

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by Anna Raccoon on April 7, 2016

The Chinese government has long kept tight reins on both main stream media and social media to maintain its authority. Tactics include monitoring systems and firewalls, blocking websites, and jailing journalists and bloggers who seek to circumvent the ‘Great Firewall

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Panama Gnats.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 5, 2016

Hey oop! The media midges are on manoeuvres. Dive-bombing unsuspecting celebrity ankles; swarming with righteous innuendo; there is no escape from the garrulous gnats as they mix ‘tax avoidance’ with ‘tax evasion’ and tar every customer of the

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Gawkward Truths.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 3, 2016

The thrusting naked bottom of Hulk Hogan is an unlikely place to lower the flag of ‘free speech’; but there it currently resides. Pending an appeal.

Gawker v. Bollea was an American court case that turned on

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To #Believe or not to #Believe.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 27, 2016

That is the question. There are so many possible answers.

When Exaro first emerged with their ‘credible and true’ allegations of exotic Westminster paedophile rings, the opprobrium heaped on the head of anyone, like Ms Raccoon for

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A kiss is just a kiss? Depends who you are!

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by Anna Raccoon on March 9, 2016

The ‘outrage bus’ is doing wheelies round the Sunderland Football Club car park as it awaits its ritualistic joy-ride through Twitter when Adam Johnson’s sentence is deemed too soft… as it will be if just one week short of

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Corrie’s Dad.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 3, 2016

Farewell then, Tony Warren, you served us well. They announced your death on Twitter – thus neatly spanning the two worlds you inhabited.

You brought the flat and raucous tones of the wildings south; displayed the wit and

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Playing Soft Ball.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 2, 2016

We awoke this morning to the news that the BBC had discovered fresh dangers lurking in the undergrowth to damage your children for life.

Not all children, naturally. Â Those who play football are apparently safe, despite the

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The Savile Memorial Celebrations…

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by Anna Raccoon on February 26, 2016

100 years ago last year, a bitter little man, a man who hoped to be ‘somebody’ one day, a man with his head full of the ‘injustices’ of his life, but who, despite his poor background had had

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The Dame Janet Smith Review.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 25, 2016

The BBC was off to a cracking start this morning – commencing with the ceremonial hurling of the sacrificial spent carcass of yet another DJ from the top of BBC Towers to the waiting mob below – Tony Blackburn.

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The Presumption of Innocence.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 14, 2016

There was a howl of outrage when it appeared that the Presumption of Innocence had been suspended for those individuals with a penchant for strapping explosives around their waist and ensuring that the police had a neat pile

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‘Saint’ Bernard Hogan-Howe safe – but is he a ‘Pussyfoot’?

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by Anna Raccoon on February 13, 2016

I have always been of the opinion that the age of ‘Savilisation’, a term I invented and now proudly watch as it propagates through the media, was a perfect storm of tensions between the media, the

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Not yet ‘Settle’d.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 10, 2016

Mark Watts was busy picking the cherries out of the Operation Vincente review conducted by Deputy Chief Constable James Vaughan of Dorset Police.

Met was right to interview Lord Brittan over rape – review.

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Bridge on the River Kwai.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 5, 2016

And before the pedants point it out – it was actually about 200 miles East of the Kwai. I wasn’t going to waste the headline though!

In Pattaya, that den of iniquity, the denizens of antiquity

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Rough Kids – Rough Love.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 4, 2016

It was a stroke of genius, ten years ago, for Ms Camila Batmanghelidjh to invite documentary maker, Lynn Alleyway, into her multi-coloured harem to film her charitable work with underprivileged kids – ‘Tough Kids – Tough Love‘. It

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Slater & Gordon’s annus horribilis.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 31, 2016

Long ago, there was a country club with a golf course called ‘Quindell’. A man called Rob Terry ran it, despite his previous company, Innovation Group, apparently vanishing up its own backside – leaving him some £12 million to

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Chugger chokes Mugger.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 29, 2016

‘Give a Smile UK’ describes itself as a ‘social enterprise’. In practice that means they take local people who have been ‘affected by the recession’ and unable to find full or even part-time employment

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Operation Notarise.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 28, 2016

October 2014 – and as ‘many as 20,000 to 30,000‘ potential sex offenders, or vile perverts in tabloidese, had been identified. There was outrage that all those on the list provided by the National Crime Agency hadn’t been

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George Washington and ‘I can’t tell a lie’.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 19, 2016

George Washington and the ‘I can’t tell a lie’ Cherry Tree fable is probably the most enduring myth about an American leader that any English schoolchild will remember. Even the myth has myths around it – the original

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The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an…

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by Anna Raccoon on November 14, 2015

Ms Raccoon has had her nose in this book all week-end. As with the bible, one can play pick n’ mix’ to one’s heart content. I hadn’t quite appreciated why it was

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Polio Braggadocio.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 3, 2015

Tell me, do you hesitate to pick up a beautiful feather, discarded by an escaping pheasant? Do you hear your Mother’s voice as you bend down to touch it? I can tell your age by your answer.

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