by Anna Raccoon on December 8, 2016 An embargoed report was snuck out at midnight, last night. Just imagine, for one moment, that this report concerned 436 Football coaches dismissed in one 24 month period for ‘abuse of authority for … Continue reading →
by Petunia Winegum on September 29, 2015 Beyond the endless TV mags, titillating rags and metrosexual men’s handbooks, I spied a tiny handful of what used to be called comics on the newsstand the other day. All bar one notable exception appeared to … Continue reading →
by Petunia Winegum on September 28, 2015 Humour is an element one doesn’t always associate with contemporary art. Trying a little too hard to shock in order to inspire a Daily Mail editorial decrying the work that a billionaire with … Continue reading →
by Gildas the Monk on September 22, 2015 I read in my Sunday broadsheets that Angela Merkel is starting to get a bit of stick in Germany. For example “Mutter Angela” is featured on the front page of Der Spiegel … Continue reading →
by Petunia Winegum on September 5, 2015 What a difference a week makes. For a long time now, what used to be asylum-seekers before being rebranded migrants and then suddenly refugees have been dying at sea in appallingly high numbers, … Continue reading →
Bringing the Marxist commandments to the masses – continued… It seems that my favourite left-wing blogger is feeling a little peeved that some of us have taken his blueprint for a successful left-wing blog to counter the right-wing conspiracy, in … Continue reading →
While many are shivering in homes surrounded by uncollected rubbish and ungritted roads at the moment, a fair few of them are quietly content. This is because they suspect that history has rhymed yet again: local services breaking down, things … Continue reading →
The health denials that emanated from Downing Street throughout Autumn 2009 are now revealed in almost every detail as a tissue of cynical lies from start to finish. Following the Mail’s extracts from Peter Watt’s new book Inside Out, Guido … Continue reading →
Living here in the Dordogne, it is difficult to avoid Foie Gras. It turns up in the most unlikely places – stuffed into a joint of roast Reindeer is one I particularly remember…. I don’t have any moral objection to … Continue reading →
UK ministers likely to offload unwanted swine flu vaccines (Business section) Published 11 January 2010 Following official predictions that there will be no third wave of pandemic this winter, UK ministers are preparing to offload millions of unwanted swine flu … Continue reading →
The snow was falling on the land, The country iced-up tight: Old Cyclops did his best to make Pronouncements dour and trite. And this was odd, because t’was thought The Backbone ‘ad taken flight. The Backbone was quietly sulking, Because … Continue reading →
“Migration threatens the DNA of our nation” thunders the Thunderer! Wow! Uncharacteristically provocative journalism on the part of the staid, sober, seat of soporific journalism, or an inexplicable decline into right wing extremist rhetoric from one of our foremost liberal … Continue reading →
MORE than 1,000 sheep are being kept in British prisons, shock figures have revealed. In total, there are 4,309 animals and 147 different species within UK prisons – one for every 19 inmates. Shetland ponies, donkeys, pigmy goats, dogs and … Continue reading →
Today sees the return of our little piglets, carefully fattened over Christmas, to their favourite trough. Off to a frying flying start, saving their own Bacon, the first item on the agenda is ‘Topical Oral Questions on Justice’. To include, … Continue reading →