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Save the Whale!

February 26, 2010

Greenpeace would have been proud of the BBC last night.
Caught between the rock of trying to report on one of the day’s hottest story – that of the tragic death of Dawn Brancheau at the Orlando, Seaworld by a killer Whale – and the hard place of their own commitment to liberal values which must [...]

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In the Beginning…

February 26, 2010

Today, an exhibition opens in London of an event, a life changing event, that transformed lives far more effectively than anything the Nu-Labour activists could dream of. It was a genuine revolution, a relatively bloodless one.
Today, Carnaby Street is 50 years old. That is not quite true, Carnaby Street was around in Dicken’s time, a [...]

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How to Make a Bad Hair Day Worse.

January 17, 2010

A good friend of mine, female, but you will not get any more clues than that, was having a terrible day.
She had clawed and scratched her way to the top of her Department, and now was reaping the rewards. A scandal had brewed, the media was baying for blood, her blood, and she sat in [...]

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The Final Curtain.

November 27, 2009
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Those of you who know me well, will be aware that I have not been well in recent months.
Thanks to the excellent French medical service, which is second to none, I have undergone a battery of tests in record time, no waiting, no messing, outstanding courtesy and efficiency at every turn. Hopefully they have now [...]

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The Not So Triffling Truffle.

November 21, 2009
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The weather is still 20 degrees plus every day, the skies are clear and blue, but we know that Autumn is with us for the woodlands in these parts bristle with signs warning that the age old Perigourdine tradition of hunting for mushrooms is interdit here, and here, and over there too.
You quite literally take [...]

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Lost Encounters……

November 14, 2009
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Raccoontrack would like to apologise for the lack of buffet car on the 11/11/09; the non-appearence of the 12/11/09, and the 13/11/09.
Wrong kind of sheep, leaves on the track, too much wind and rain, and the high temperatures experienced in the thinking end of Ms Raccoon, were all matters beyond our control.
Full service will be [...]

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Let them Eat Whine and Erections for the Whining Clergy.

November 10, 2009
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Fresh from whining during ‘Alcohol Awareness Week’ about the estimated 91,000 deaths that will occur in the next decade due to the over consumption of evil booze, which is apparently an ‘unacceptably high death toll’ amongst willing participants, the Nanny State is back on the subject of consumption some three weeks later.
The time it is [...]

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