When my daughter made contact with me, she had done her homework. She is a very, very, sharp and smart lady. She had also been though Somerset House
Continue reading →Revenge is a dish best served whenever it suits you…
Where were we? Right, we shall continue where we left off…
Post-modern deconstructive macro-impregnation and other dilemmas.
Those manicured young things sinking outsize glasses of Chardonnay in their Marie-Claire recommended Jason Wu dresses and improbable heels may look as though they are just updating their Facebook page to ‘available’ after Brad lost his
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
A sobering investigation on the effects of a variation of ‘joint enterprise’ for Mothers of children abused by their Fathers.
A male Tory minister for Domestic Abuse accused of beating his wife
Continue reading →Slater & Gordon ‘Bleeding Cash’ – Part 864.
Dee Cole, poster girl for Slater & Gordon, got her caravan on the south coast to gave her ‘closure’ and help her forget the time she was, er, raped by Savile in a caravan on the south coast….if only
Continue reading →Hex in the City.
Ms Raccoon is temporarily indisposed again, so I offer you this Youtube item which is currently trending in the US.
I thought it should be part of
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An old favourite – Dioclese – with an excellent review of a programme that had me in stitches! Interesting ‘backstory’ to the Burkini on the Beach saga. David Thompson picks up on
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£10,000 damages awarded against an on-line troll for falsely labelling a Tory politician a paedophile. Or the cost of replying
Continue reading →Parish Notice.
How about some good news for a change?
Ms Raccoon won’t be resigning any time soon.
My last scan was a success. Correction, my last scan was a flippin’ disaster – but
Continue reading →The Birth and Death of the Laburnum Party.
Watching Labour tear its own heart out is reminiscent of watching squatters tip a grand mansion into decay.
The damp slowly creeps up the walls; the rafters collapse under the weight of slate and moss,
Continue reading →Mensheviks v. Leninists.
You may be surprised to learn that Labour, under Mr Corbyn’s leadership, does have a ‘strategy and communications chief’ – the millionaire Seumas Milne.
The current chaos suggested that this was a party in disarray
Continue reading →A Very British Revolution.
Seeing Cameron with stiff upper lip, facing the British press after the referendum results, I cannot get the image of Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in Bridge over the River Kwai out of my mind.
Suffer the little children under the EU…
Never mind David Cameron eating small roasted babies for breakfast, I’m more concerned with what the EU is doing to those wide eyed African babies this morning.
Starving them by way of penalising their parents,
Continue reading →J’adore, Flabradors, and Guards’ma’doors.
The British are a funny race. Did anyone enquire as to the state of health of Frenchman Gerard de Nerval’s pet lobster as he walked it round Paris? Sentient? Fricasseed? Boiled even? We were content
It’s a good news/bad news day…
Shall we have the good news first? Pour yourself a cup of coffee and pull up a chair… Settled? OK!
For the past 154 days of the year, you have been working hard
Continue reading →‘Raccoon! Ahoy!’
It is that time of the year again. The next scan is looming, Ms Raccoon is within touching distance (next Wednesday!) of her latest goal (to make it to 68!) and a suitable adventure had to
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Mr ‘G’ Edition…
“That type of misjudgment is not to be expected of seasoned journalists and is bound to tarnish the program’s world-wide reputation for credible reportage”. The Australian hack
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Alison Saunders lets the Police into a little secret as the CPS disappear under a pile of 267 files….
Hard to follow that one, but
Open Thread – National Limerick Day.
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The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate. A long read – but well worth the effort, beautifully written – by Daniel Harris.
‘Waiting for Goddard…’
Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Waiting for Godot‘ was famously described as ‘a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats’. ‘Waiting for Goddard’ is fast acquiring the same sense of existentialist absurdity
Continue reading →Feminists fail to turn a Trick over Jesus’ Cock.
Where is Germaine Greer when you need her?
Radegund was quite a gal – born in 520, daughter of a King of Thuringia, she was brought up in a household of warring murderous brothers fit to
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Washing machine magnates and Ukuleles – the bizarre David Bowie route to stardom! Manchester Barrister Jaime Hamilton details an ‘Epic Fail’ from the Ministry of Justice.
‘Mom’ takes two year old
Continue reading →Just say ‘No’.
*Yawn*. Apologies once again for my absence. Ms Raccoon has once more been stress testing the NHS, Keeping Mr G on his toes, resolving to return to my previous diet of salmon and rice as being the only food
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Justice Edition….
Avoids £89,246.33 court costs – affords £89,950 BMW sports car. Justice, Briscoe style.
Barrister Blogger’s expert dissection of the Andrew Picard case – otherwise known as 100,000 idiots petition
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Moor Larkin celebrates an achievement – 500 forensically painstakingly researched articles on the Savile phenomena. (Yes, it did make me check – I have written 274 over a longer period, and even then not so closely focussed).
Continue reading →(They Long to be) Close to EU.
Just like me, they long to be close to you.
Why do stars fall down from the sky, ev’ry time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be close to you.
Let the pantomime
Continue reading →Re S (Children)
Case No: B4/2015/0191 & 0192
Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWCA Civ 83
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE DISTRICT
Continue reading →Truth is the first casualty.
As the media gird their loins for days and weeks worth of satisfying bleeding, crying, heart-rending front pages, one question stands out ‘How could young men become so radicalised that they turn into suicide bombers’.
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For Rosa.
When Clive James wrote a few months ago of being ‘stuck with the embarrassment of still being alive’, it struck a particular chord with me – as a number of people thought it might, judging by the
Continue reading →Predictive Policing and ‘Allegator’ Algorithms.
Traditional Policing has always paid attention to crime ‘hot spots’. Keeping an eye on the ATM machine where several muggings have occurred over the previous few weeks; Making a regular ‘drive by’ a park where a rapist
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