From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Bullets or Benefits?

August 31, 2009
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I have written a lot in the past few days on the disgraceful waste of tax payers money that is the £700 million paid to Princess Emma’s A4e outfit. The story starts HERE and continues HERE and HERE in case you have missed it.
Princess Emma is in the process of negotiating a fresh £700 million [...]

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The Princess and the P’s.

August 30, 2009
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Princess Emma of Sheffield can’t have been sleeping easily the last few nights, and the news that there are more than 100,ooo ‘Ps’ – otherwise known as Polish construction workers – heading to her feather bedded kingdom has caused great consternation in her land.
This could be why the latest edition of ‘Benefit Busters’ has been [...]

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Stark Choices.

August 29, 2009
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The reality that is Rupert Murdoch, dwarfs any other media mogul in history.
Journalist Wendy Goldman Rohm described him as “a man who over the years has been reviled worldwide for his alleged crassness and reputation for catering to the lowest common denominator.”
His youngest son, who many believe is being groomed to take over from his [...]

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Dead Tree Press in a sulk…….

August 28, 2009
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Google is being investigated by the Italian anti-trust authorities over a “lack of transparency” in Google’s search engine and Google News service, which compiles blurbs of news stories on the Web and provides links to them.
The original complaint was made by the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers, who are upset that Google won’t tell them [...]

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The Frocks take Fright…….

August 28, 2009
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The number of people alleged to have died from Swine Flu in the UK is now 66.
It is hardly Bubonic plague levels, and yet the church has invoked an exception granted under the 1547 Sacrament Act which allows the “moste blessed sacrament be hereafter commenlie delivered and ministred unto the people, within this Churche of [...]

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Rattle dem Bones……..

August 28, 2009
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I once wrote a dissertation on ‘101 uses for a corpse’- to reach my alloted target I really had to scrape the barrel, dragging up the French law which allows a corpse to marry amongst other things, but, I confess, I missed out the political advantage a corpse can be put to.
We have had some [...]

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Meteoric Mandy Stalled.

August 27, 2009
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A Straw Man argument we can all support…….
Jack Straw, implacable opponent of Slithery Mandy, has inserted an extra clause into the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill that would bar Mandy (or any other peer) from resigning from the House of Lords and entering the House of Commons without a five year ‘decency gap’.
Now that will [...]

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