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Compensating Issues.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 12, 2016

The judicial behemoth steaming through the shallows of historic sexual allegations – currently with a social worker at the helm, but it is only Monday – is in uncharted waters.

The treacherous rocks of

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Nurturing Porkies.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 29, 2016

Little Porkies grow into whoppers…

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

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Feeding Time at the Legal Zoo.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 24, 2016

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

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BrExaro means BrExaro.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 21, 2016

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,

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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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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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CPS accused of suppressing police corruption evidence.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 24, 2016

It would seem self-evident that London and the UK is the world centre for laundering ill-gotten gains – house prices in London didn’t reach their current stratospheric heights as a result of decent honest businessmen competing to house

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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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The People's Pitchfork.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 21, 2015

Shock, horror this morning amongst all the people who didn’t read the Forbes list of the 1549 wealthiest people in the world – Oxfam have used the top 85 to depress us further on #Blue Monday.

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Quite a Thunderbolt for the Pope on a Sunday…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 4, 2013

Not since it was revealed that the Vatican’s financial advisor, Michele Sindona, was a Mafia connected crook who had embezzled 20 million quid of the Holy Father’s piggy bank has there been such a catastrophic financial insult

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Pop Goes the (Welsh) Weasel!

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by Anna Raccoon on June 4, 2013

There is a lot you can do with £1.6 million pounds. Personally I’d go for the next ten years resident in The Mamounia, but trying to be civic minded, and bearing in mind that the £1.6

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The Victimal Hierarchy.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 22, 2013

Can I pose a question to you? When you go to fill up your car, do you search out the most expensive petrol to buy? No?

Surely you have a moral duty to do so? You

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Starbucks: Let them Drink Tea

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by Matt Wardman on December 13, 2012

 

Oyez. Oyez. Oyez.

Hear-ye. Hear-ye. Hear-ye.

Hear me. Hear me. hear me.

Insofar as, Starbucks having been declared to be Tax Avoiders by the Court of Planet Mars, i.e., the Marsupial Court, and failing to note that they may or may not

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Attack of the Rouge Landlords

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by Matt Wardman on September 18, 2012

Those evil Rouge Landlords.

They’re at it again, terrorising tenants up and down the land.

At least in the imagination of anti-landlord campaigners.

Unfortunately, when Shelter did some research to try

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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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State of the economy

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by SadButMadLad on June 13, 2012

As I understand the current economic situation, we’re not part of the Euro so we should be able to ride out it’s demise better than others.

But we have to be able to react to the

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Black Swans and Economic Voodoo

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by Gildas the Monk on June 12, 2012

Ever behind the curve, I read an article a couple of weeks ago about Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This is a bit late in the day, because he has some very important things to say,

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Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS)

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by Matt Wardman on May 28, 2012

I’m delighted to announce the relaunch of (yet) another left of centre lesser-spotted Flatpack Thinktank, The

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Cleaning up the Internet? – Audio

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by Matt Wardman on May 16, 2012

This is a 10 minute clip of a conversation about the blocking of ‘unacceptable’ material on the Internet, on Radio 4′s You and Yours. It highlights some of the relevant questions quite well.

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Eoin Clarke: Plankety-Plank

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by Matt Wardman on May 9, 2012

The graph above is classic Eoin Clarke: propaganda for credulous boneheads.

Take a statistic.

Find a way that simplifies and distorts

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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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Ken Livingstone of the One Percent

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by Matt Wardman on February 26, 2012

Ken Livingstone has been a little excoriating about bankers and other rich people avoiding what he thinks should be their taxes:

THESE rich bastards just don’t get it…No one should be allowed to

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SNP Bullshit Bingo

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by Matt Wardman on February 22, 2012

Flippin’ ‘Eck and his chums are working their way through the world choosing Countries for Scotland to aspire to imitate.

As the selected paragons fall over one by one, ‘Eck

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Capitalism is Fixing It. Slowly.

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by Matt Wardman on February 15, 2012

We’re in the middle of a small orgy of kneejerk (or jerk-kneeing, if you prefer) bashing of bankers with self-inflated banker-bonkers, and not a few people trying to keep the

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Zuckerberg was on a roll …

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by Matt Wardman on February 2, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg had it all. Most successful social media company in the world. Umpteen-billionaire in his 20s. Beautiful girlfriend. And presumably a Philippe Starck Lemon Squeezer.

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Tax Brakes?

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on August 30, 2011

I saw something the other day, something utterly unremarkable in its banal common sense:

“Give tax breaks to manufacturing businesses in areas of high unemployment”

I mean, it’s obvious, isn’t it? When

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What does $100m look like?

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by Matt Wardman on July 29, 2011

There’s a brilliant visualisation of the US Government Debt, in $100 bills, starting with a single bill and ending in a comparison of a trillion dollars with a jumbo jet, over at with wfynoway.

The pile

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Ed Balls in Fantasia

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by Matt Wardman on June 17, 2011

Thanks to Fraser Nelson for pointing out a world-class piece of carpet-bagging by Ed Balls MP, the Shadow Chancellor.

In his “Speech for the Alternative” the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Economic Wizard

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Septic Blather

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by Matt Wardman on June 7, 2011

The FIFA soap opera continues, and Placido Domingo, Johan Cruyff and Henry Kissinger have been drafted in to save world football.

As Sepp Blatter put it:

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