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There’ll be tears before bed time Mandy…Ken Clarke to return to the front bench today.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 19, 2009

 Kenneth Clarke, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, will return to the Conservative front bench in today’s major reshuffle. He will become shadow business secretary and take on the equally shadowy figure of Lord Mendacious of Fey, the former Peter

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BBC ‘thought control’ is alive and well in Granada……

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by Anna Raccoon on January 15, 2009

Coronation Street, the TV soap opera, is something of an institution for the Northern diaspora. We relive our childhood and rekindle memories of a way of life and a gentle humour unknown on ‘suicide watch’ as the rival ‘Eastenders’ programme

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Virtual Civil Disobedience is not the only route……..

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by Anna Raccoon on January 13, 2009

It sometimes feels as though the pyjamhideen are the only radical activists left. Sitting in their anonymous lofts, fingers flying across their keyboards.

I am heartened today to learn of a truly old fashioned student activist. 27 year old Tim DeChristopher. Respect

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Hope for us yet!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 13, 2009

It seems that we have our own home grown Tim DeChristopher…see previous posting….

A coalition of MPs, celebrities, scientists and green campaigners has bought land earmarked for a third runway at Heathrow airport from under the

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Labour – housing perks and privileges.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 11, 2009

Back in December, Times on-line ran a story concerning Norwich council official Kristine Reeves, earning Â£52,000-a-year as head of neighbourhood and strategic housing, who played a key role in evicting old and frail tenants from their bungalows. She then moved into one of

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Weaselly, measly, miserly mots……

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by Anna Raccoon on January 9, 2009

Alastair Darling has dismissed speculation that the Government would “print money” to ease the pain of recession. 

“Nobody is talking about printing money,” he said. “There is a debate to be had about what you do

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Usury, Just Compensation and Predatory Borrowing.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 8, 2009

“It is worthy of remark, that the first borrowers must have been for the most part men driven to this necessity by the pressure of want, and contracting debt as a desperate resource without any

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Dodgy governments, dodgy statistics, dodgy results.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 7, 2009

A statement published on the DCSF website says: “The Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 that came into force on 1 December 2008 and the Code of Practice for Official Statistics published on 6 January 2009 means the Department must

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Muslims, Christians and Jews – I couldn’t put it better………

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by Anna Raccoon on January 7, 2009

Marcus Brigstocke rants about religion
Transcript… with thanks to Mental Excretement

“I’d like to start this week with a request, and this one goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: the Muslims, Christians, and Jews. It’s just a little thing,

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Opium for the masses, Lucy Pinder, a distraction from the banking crisis.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 6, 2009

Historians will no doubt record that moment in time when the huddled masses should have been checking their pension statements but were glued to the TV screen watching the unfolding of that manufactured saga which is ‘Big Brother’. 

Lucy Pinder is revealed to

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TO KILL OR WHAT? IT HERTZ!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 6, 2009

WHAT WILL I DO WITHOUT MY 100 WATT LIGHT-BULB!

It’s a sad day when our tiny group of islands called the UK decide that we have to go along with the EU ….. again!

It has been decided that the 100 watt

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Tax payers cash protect the banks profit.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 5, 2009

Police are using helicopters at a cost of around £1m a year to move cash around Manchester in an effort to protect security drivers from attack and witnesses from ‘trauma’. 

The tax payers Alliance called it a ‘ridiculous’ allocation of resources – football clubs have to

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Hurling cobbles is so last year, hurling the cobbler’s craft is the new fad.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 4, 2009

We can go back nigh on 3000 years to debate the rights and wrongs of the current middle east crisis. Those who quote alleged wrongs from biblical times would not be impressed to find their patch of, say, coastal Sussex, handed

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