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Disconnected from reality

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on February 15, 2010

No need to stress!

Something that I’ve found over and over again when considering the arguments of “the left” is their incredible disconnection

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Lunchtime Bonkers

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by John Ward on February 9, 2010

What could possibly go wrong?

To ensure we’re all clear about the banking sector having learned its lessons, the Financial Times yesterday noted that Peter Hancock (a prime mover in

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And Steve Jobs spake, saying

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on January 28, 2010

Who's going to surf the Internet with one of these?

You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is from Nokia, or

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Debtmanship – Man Bites Dog….

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by Anna Raccoon on January 27, 2010

A Dallas man, mired in the recession that has caught so many multi-property owners during the collapse of the sub-prime market in the US, has developed an interesting and profitable side line.

Side

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In the Shade of The Sun

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by Christopher Winsley on December 5, 2009

Not in my wildest dreams did I imagine that my journalistic career would commence with me being the catalyst for the arrest of an international criminal. A

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Jingle Tills, Jingle Tills …

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on December 4, 2009

Because, of course, Christmas shopping is JUST like this, isn't it?

As someone who is reasonably widely travelled, it never fails to amaze me at how consumerist British society is. I

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Dubai World’s Default: Reasoning and Implications

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by Di Gestive on December 3, 2009

Would you like a diamond-encrusted Rolex with that, sir?

(Editor’s note: This is our first post from Di Gestive and we would like to thank her

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Equality begins in the home.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 25, 2009

That shrill group of legal harpies, Harriet Harman, Maria Eagle and Vera Baird, otherwise known as the Government ‘Equalities’Â Office, have chosen today to launch

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God Speed Ye Legal Gentlemen…

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by Anna Raccoon on November 19, 2009

God speed ye Legal gentlemen, let nothing you delay,
In ending piglet’s troughing ways,
And save us all from Nu-Labour’s power when they had gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort

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Back to School

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by Gloria Smudd on November 19, 2009

Born under a bad sign,
I been down since I began to crawl,
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I wouldn’t have no luck at all*
(*Music by Booker T Jones, lyrics by

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A Very British Beef…

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by Gloria Smudd on November 19, 2009

We’ve all been told it’s very rude
If we neglect to chew our food
But what is stocked in one big shop
Has caused my lower jaw to drop
So you can see stuck

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Catching Balls, Twitterati Supremo.

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by John Ward on November 17, 2009

Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children.

Salary: £142,000 pa

Claimed expenses: £21,429 last year

Outlined above is the official nature of Ed Balls’ job

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Court of Protection: Masters of Lunacy

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by Anna Raccoon on November 15, 2009

The Mail on Sunday holds out the delicious prospect that we may yet see some ‘naked’ civil servants. Whilst I have lambasted them previously for their inaccurate reporting, they have taken another bite

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The Difference a Word Makes…

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by Anna Raccoon on November 9, 2009

Yesterday we honoured that breed of person known as Soldiers. We can add the word ‘old’ in front, as in ‘Old Soldiers’ and we become particularly deferential. Somehow existing for 50 years in peacetime after

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Whadderwewant?

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by John Ward on November 3, 2009

Whadderwewant?

Twenty million quid!

Whydowewannit?

‘Cos we’re borassic thanks to bankers, Patricia Hewitt, an’ being crap!

Howdewegerrit?

By destroying the UK holiday sector!

Yippee!

Twenty million

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What is the measure of a society ? Court of Protection

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by Anna Raccoon on October 27, 2009

I ask this question because there is a maxim that says “a nation is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens”.  This is from US President Hubert H. Humphrey and the full quote is:

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Court of Protection

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by Anna Raccoon on October 26, 2009

I am so coldly, rigidly, white knuckled angry, that at 3am I still can’t sleep.

The cause of my anger is an article, so poorly researched, so sensationalist, so, so utterly, incompetently wrong, written by a ‘Whitehall Editor’

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Swiss Roll Ball into Own Goal.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 20, 2009

When you don’t have many claims to fame, you need to work hard at protecting the ones you do have.

The history of

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Government Moves to Regulate Markets.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 13, 2009

No, no, no – not that Market, not the Stock Market, they’ve given up all hope of controlling that market.

They have turned their attention to one of the oldest examples

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Brown’s Yard Sale – Everything Must Go!

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by Anna Raccoon on October 12, 2009

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his success at flogging off the family Gold at a stomach lurching $275 an ounce in 1999, Brown the spiv is out on the corner again this

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One Eye on the Bacon Futures.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 11, 2009

July 20th 2009 was a good day to bury bad news. All eyes were on The Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill which was having its first reading in parliament and

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Circumlocuting Mandelson’s Foreshite.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 8, 2009

Profound illumination has a habit of arriving in mundane circumstances.

Archimedes was sitting in the bath when he discovered the relationship of weight to volume.

Newton was out scrumping apples.

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Get it all Down – the Money’s Right!

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by Anna Raccoon on October 7, 2009

UK Doctors, hobbled by the law which says that they cannot treat a patient without consent, have resorted to the age old lure of money.

From next month, a team based at University

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Laying off the Layabouts.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 6, 2009

The Tories will have to be careful when positioning their key speakers on the question of what to do with the 2.7 million currently claiming Incapacity Benefit – when I first saw this photograph I

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Unravelling the Rubi-con.

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by Gloria Smudd on October 2, 2009

Sometimes, having the face and the tenacious nature of a pit-bull terrier isn’t always an entirely miserable thing. Sometimes, doggedly following a trail which has grown so faint that it has

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The Balance of Pensionability

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by Anna Raccoon on October 1, 2009

Less than one week ago, Age Concern and Help the Aged retired beaten from the High Court after a ruling by Mr Justice Blake that the vicious Default Retirement Age brought in

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Out of the Frying Pan and into … Gold

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by Argent Provocateur on September 25, 2009

‘And it’s too late Benny, it’s too late, though you really did try to fake it ’

The recession’s over, right? The world economy will return to growth,

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