June 2009

Censorship – Love it or Hate it?

June 30, 2009

The CPS has dropped a case brought under the Obscene Publications Act against Darryn Walker, a civil servant who wrote a pornographic fantasy about pop group Girls Aloud and posted it online.  This follows the case of NightJack aka Richard Horton, outed by The Times, allegedly in contravention of Article 8 of the Human Rights [...]

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Watch the Pennies and the Pounds will take care of themselves

June 30, 2009

The London Mint Office is offering £50 apiece for thousands of new, undated British 20p coins produced by the Royal Mint. An estimated 50,000 – 200,000 have been produced and put into circulation. But before you go and ransack your loose change and claim your prize you should consider the current value of the 2p [...]

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Madoff given 1% in years of what he stole in pounds

June 29, 2009

This afternoon Bernard Madoff was given a 150 year prison sentence for masterminding the largest fraud the world has ever seen . The gallery cheered as the sentence was handed down. But his wife Ruth said after the hearing that she felt “betrayed and confused”, though probably not as much as the billions of tax [...]

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Keen to Support Squatters?

June 28, 2009

Loud cheers this morning from the tax paying classes as the ‘provisional wing of the Tax Payers Alliance’ (we”ll never improve on that description from Guido!) move into the apparently abandoned and derelict ‘main home’ of Labour MPs Alan and Ann Keen. Hounslow Council had earlier threatened to take possession of the house under the [...]

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Raccoon bites off man’s penis

June 27, 2009

A RAGING raccoon has bitten off a pervert’s penis as he tried to rape the animal. Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with friends when he leapt on the terrified animal. “When I saw the raccoon I thought I’d have some fun,” he told stunned casualty surgeons in Moscow. Now Russian plastic surgeons [...]

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Bercow and Gore. Past lives and future intentions.

June 27, 2009

Charlotte Gore has always struck me as an intelligent and honest blogger who speaks her mind with wit and humour. How sad that she sees this as a substantive reason why she could never be an MP. She cites her recorded comments on her blog – to wit, that she is against the welfare state, [...]

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Pharmageddon – ironing out eccentricities.

June 26, 2009

Another one bites the dust. One less eccentric to thrill and appal the world in equal measures as he dances across its stage.  Michael Jackson RIP. Primitive societies knew what to do with their eccentrics, they lionised them as entertainment. Surely a better fate than our modern method of first delineating who has money and [...]

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