Politics

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

June 19, 2013 5 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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The Expert’s expert expert…!

June 18, 2013 23 comments
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Light years ago, before Jimmy Savile was even a twinkle in his Father’s eye, and Tesco’s hadn’t been invented, and there wasn’t a career in Television to be had, no matter who your Father was, ‘cos hardly anyone had even caught up with the new fangled radio…there was such a time you know, probably before [...]

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Neanderthal Man?

June 17, 2013 14 comments
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Oop there in Liverpool, the 2008 ‘cultural Capital of Europe’ according to the European Commission, a young male was out and about with his lady. He found himself surrounded by several young knuckle dragging males of Liverpudlian heritage, who tried to take his girlfriend away with them for – who knows what fate awaited her? [...]

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We’re all in this together – except for the Labour Party…!

June 16, 2013 23 comments
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Back in the heady days of July 2009, a mere seven months after the onset of the ‘global banking crisis’, an event which Gordon Brown frequently reassured us had ‘started in America’ – and therefore was not really a British problem, those coming up for retirement were looking for a safe place to  invest their [...]

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Why I Think Edward Snowden is a Hero

June 15, 2013 36 comments
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by Kingbingo This is a guest post by Kingbingo, a long time contributor to this blog. Life used to be pretty good for Edward Snowden. He had a good income of over $100k from a job he was good at and a slim, attractive girlfriend.  However, after last weekend, if agents of the world’s greatest [...]

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‘Pay As You Go’ Driving.

June 14, 2013 24 comments
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Over the past four days days, Mr G has driven me around 3,000 kilometres (roughly 2,000 miles for the metrically challenged). One of his mad dashes to see something of interest to him! Enough said. We are fortunate in owning a much loved Volkswagen California. When we get tired, we turn it into a comfortable [...]

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By Popular Request…the Man Cave!

June 8, 2013 21 comments

No, Ms Raccoon has no intention of shutting up – though that would be an equally popular request these days…. But several people have asked if I could creep into the man cave and take some pictures – this morning I was up before Mr G and managed to do just that. Here, in all [...]

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