Duncroft/Savile

The Magna Carta – Walking in King John’s footsteps.

June 19, 2013 6 comments
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798 years ago today, King John set his seal on the Magna Carta. The contents of that historic document had been bitterly argued over for four days. During those days, as the Barons struggled to wrest the absolute power of a monarch from his grasp and extract the concessions that we refer to today as [...]

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Putting a Spanner in the Works…

June 9, 2013 77 comments
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Back some 20 years ago, when the sun still shone in summer time, and young army lads only got beheaded in foreign places so there was no need for a focus group to tell the Prime Minister what to Tweet on the subject, a group of gay young middle aged blades got up one morning [...]

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The Victimal Hierarchy.

May 22, 2013 109 comments
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Can I pose a question to you? When you go to fill up your car, do you search out the most expensive petrol to buy? No? Surely you have a moral duty to do so? You earn your money in the UK, yes? Then surely just because the law currently allows you to shop around [...]

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An important advance in Child Protection.

May 10, 2013 29 comments
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Whilst we were all busy reading the West Yorkshire Police Inquiry Report this morning, which having earnestly reported that it was keen to ‘separate myth and rumour from fact’ went on to tell us (amidst gasps of amazement) that Savile ‘had duped millions’ of us into believing ‘that he was a genuine celebrity’. (He wasn’t? [...]

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The Family Liaison Officer.

May 9, 2013 252 comments

I chanced upon a remark in my recent reading that struck me as so callous, so utterly devoid of empathy, that I stopped short. Who had made this remark? A Family Liaison Officer! As is my wont, I immediately started researching the qualities needed to be a Family Liaison Officer, and the training involved. The [...]

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Nigel Evans MP is not Dead; Nigel Evans MP is Gay!

May 6, 2013 196 comments

Blimey! If we ever doubted the veracity of the two statements in my headline, we have only to take a quick run through the media today. Even the various pictures of Nigel Evans MP that are selected by the different thundering organs of Canary Wharf tell a story. Nigel Evans MP has been arrested and [...]

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Pallial Palliations.

April 30, 2013 66 comments
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When mollusca trawl their glutinous way across our landscape, they have the evolutionary advantage of a third eye to spot potential predators. It’s called the pallial eye. I thought I’d tell you something interesting pertaining to ‘Pallial’ before you all dropped dead from the excitement. The North Wales Police ‘Operation Pallial’ has been trawling our mediascape since last November [...]

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