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The Divine Ms Raccoon’s Annual Beanfeast….

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by Anna Raccoon on November 2, 2015

I said we’d organise something, so here’s a very important date to put in your diaries – 19th November 2015. Previous get togethers have been in London, generally organised round Old Holborn’s annual Guy Fawkes

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Oh! Revoir!

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by Anna Raccoon on October 18, 2015

Paul Revoir is a journalist. At least, he’s portrayed as such on Journalisted. He grubbed around in the bowels of the Daily Mail for years, delivering earth shattering opera to his Editor:

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The Pied Pipers of Paedo Panic.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 16, 2015

The Times excels itself in the blame game.

In times of yore, Kelvin MacKenzie, then at the helm of the great ship ‘Sun’, was of the opinion that the

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Slack Narcissus

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by Petunia Winegum on October 14, 2015

Cate Blanchett is an intriguing actress – interesting-looking, androgynous, a touch of Garbo about her. She climbed higher in my estimation last week when expressing her exasperation at her peers indulging in endless selfies when attending a

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Watson Tide

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by Petunia Winegum on October 12, 2015

If we were to think of those who voted for the 2003 Allied invasion of Iraq and did their utmost to block any investigation into the affair, certain obvious names would leap forward; it’s significant that these

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Thoroughly Modern Morals

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by Petunia Winegum on October 10, 2015

A long-time commentator on here pointed me in the direction of a Channel 4 programme looking back at TV from the 60s the other week; I was tempted solely by the fact that an ageing Peter Wyngarde

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Angels with Dirty Faces

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by Petunia Winegum on October 9, 2015

An 11-year-old in Jefferson County, Tennessee this week shot dead his 8-year-old neighbour because she wouldn’t let him play with her puppy; the shotgun belonged to his father. Across the Atlantic almost fifteen years earlier, Bristol

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The Ring Cycle

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by Petunia Winegum on October 8, 2015

Back in the 1980s, I was an avid reader of the music press, and my favourite weekly was ‘Melody Maker’. Within a few months of purchasing my first issue, I became familiar with the different writers on

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*Exclusive* Esther Baker and David Hencke.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 25, 2015

The allegations of historical child sex abuse made by Esther Baker were always going to be a ‘big challenge for Staffordshire Police‘ to investigate, to quote David Hencke‘s own words. David,

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Publish and Be Damned

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by Petunia Winegum on September 11, 2015

Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Honecker’s DDR – mandatory reporting to the authorities by friends, families and neighbours, phone-taps, wire-taps, cameras tracking the moves of every citizen, persistent persecution of targets by a police force making

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Proctor Gambles on Fairy Transparency.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 25, 2015

Harvey Proctor has unsheathed his ‘sword of truth’ and come out fighting; unwilling to cower in the closet any longer whilst rumours swirl around the Internet.

Taking the lectern in the Marlborough Suite, he issued a

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Global Swarming…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 14, 2015

Listening to Radio 4 in the car the other day, to a sympathetic voice interviewing one of the sad ISIS fighters migrants refugees trafficked persons, that had just been hauled out of the briny by an Italian rescue boat, something about their story

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Batman n' Robbin'.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 10, 2015

There can be no sadder sight than a hot air ballon collapsing in ignominy. Speaking as someone who once spent some months working for a hot air balloon company, I know just how many hours go into stitching

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'High' Church.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 2, 2015

America is the land of opportunity if you have a desire to establish your own church. No other country is so relaxed about ministries that amount to just the one true believer. They even have a tax system

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Toki Pona with grilled asparagus and a dill sauce…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 1, 2015

No, I’m not about to give you the recipe. Toki Pona isn’t the latest tasteless but quick growing Vietnamese fish foisted on us by desperate supermarket fish finger suppliers. It’s a language; a remarkably constrained language, and

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End of the Peer Show at the Maison des Crétins.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 28, 2015

Alas poor Buttifant*! The fashion police have busted him.

On Sunday he was a mere coke snorting, tart romping Peer, barely distinguishable from his colleagues – by Monday The Sun had played their master stroke and

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Milk Marketing.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 26, 2015

A reader of this parish, a blissfully content new grandfather, which makes a change from his usual curmudgeonly, contrarian, argumentative self, in between making coochy-coo noises and blowing bubbles at his new granddaughter, decided to do something practical

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Trumps, Tramps, and Trims, and Peeping at Tom's.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 22, 2015

Trumps. What Donald Trump actually said:

“I like Mexico, I love the Mexican people, I do business with Mexico,” he said. “But you have people coming through the border who are from all over

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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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Childline.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 13, 2015

Back in July 2011, around the time that Meirion Jones was first making a move on the story of great personal interest to him and his family:

Mr Jones told me

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The Fat Lady is Singing

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by Petunia Winegum on July 11, 2015

Once a vital lifeline to pop-picking teenagers when the pirates had yet to set sail and the BBC Light Programme swung to terminally upbeat orchestral mood music, Radio Luxembourg finally gave up the ghost of the 208 wavelength

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Equality of Gender.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 19, 2015

Did you know that a thumping 50% of those who enter the Family courts emerge ‘deeply dissatisfied’, ’emotionally traumatised’ and ‘cynical about our Justice system’. Some of the 50% could even be accurately described as ‘hysterical’ and ‘paranoid’. The majority

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What's Gove got to do, got to do, with it?

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by Anna Raccoon on June 8, 2015

The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 10 May 2015.

The Secretary of State has oversight of all of Ministry of Justice business and is responsible

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When is a Lie not a Lie?

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by Anna Raccoon on June 4, 2015

Part One – When is a Lie not a Lie.

Andy Coulson emerged from the Edinburgh High Court his old confident self.

“This prosecution was always wrong. I didn’t lie and the prosecution,

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Give the Cattle Plod a Pat on the Back!

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by Anna Raccoon on May 21, 2015

In Waco, Texas, a widely advertised gathering of hundreds of armed Hell’s Angel style bikers to celebrate Memorial Day erupted into armed warfare as the choicest ‘Turf’ was fought over, and was policed by a handful of men.

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Beating the Tattoo.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 3, 2015

A perfect spring day yesterday; blossom fighting its way through the bark of the apple trees, not a cloud in the sky – just the day to take the dog for a walk on the beach.

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Even Grimmer Fairy Tales.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 2, 2015

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.

Long, long ago, in a leafy Sussex village, not far from where Piltdown Man was discovered to be a hoax, there came a man who had fallen

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Mark Williams-Thomas – 'It weren't me, Guv' – No: 276.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 24, 2015

A prize pair. Fellow Paedo-hunters. Stinson-Hunter and Williams-Thomas.

Mark Williams-Thomas has blundered into the bizarre Northern world of Owen Oyston.

Across pages 8 and 9 of the Sunday

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Maverick Meltdown.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 16, 2015

Our mirthless, Eeyorish, lumbering dinosaur of a national broadcasting corporation has finally managed to plant its flat feet firmly in the middle of a contretemps it cannot win.

Astonishing remarks on Top Gear affair as senior BBC

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The Problem Child

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by Petunia Winegum on March 12, 2015

The current ‘suspension’ of Jeremy Clarkson and ‘Top Gear’ as a whole is a dilemma for the BBC. They know it’s a popular series that brings in some of BBC2’s largest viewing figures as well as earning

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