Politics

How are you going to vote?

May 3, 2012
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So today is the day of the local elections and the London Mayoral elections. How are you going to (or did) vote? Considering that many of the customers of the Raccoon Arms are libertarian in leaning (don’t lean too far you might fall over) are you going to vote for None of the Above or [...]

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Killers don’t care about the death penalty

May 2, 2012
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There is no evidence that the death penalty works. Researchers have concluded that the death penalty doesn’t have any effect on murder rates. Or to be more exact, the researchers haven’t found any evidence either way that the death penalty works, it might deter or it might make no difference, or even increase the homicide [...]

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The calibre of the candidates in Bradford is measured in milimetres…

May 1, 2012

Is Bradford about to secede from the United Kingdom? You could be forgiven for wondering if it is not a separate ‘country’ these days. The sitting MP, he of the newly grown ‘Muslim’ beard, the rejection of alcohol, and the new Muslim wife, allegedly cleaved to in a Muslim ceremony, despite the fact that he [...]

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Hacked Off – Why The Secrecy?

April 30, 2012

The industry I have loathed and loved for more  decades than I care to remember is going through  the sort of public beasting which was reserved for witches in medieval England. No doubt there were excesses and a few individuals will no doubt find themselves before the courts. Should it emerge that they were indeed [...]

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The Metropolitan Thought Police

April 30, 2012
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A strange incident, but not unfamiliar. A policeman goes past an art gallery in Mayfair on a bus, and sees the artwork above through the window. The policeman decided that it might be dodgy, and alerted the Station. The Station duly sent two Officers around, who told the gallery that they might be promoting bestiality, [...]

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How to use your right of free speech

April 30, 2012
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Free speech is about the right to make your views known. It is also about the right to offend others so that they may use their free speech to offend you in return. Now normally when a group demonstrates about something that offends another group of people they go running to Nanny State and use [...]

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Free Will and Social Services.

April 29, 2012

The Lord Chancellor, as he was fondly known and had been for about 1400 years, until Tony Blair sought to distance himself from the wallpapering disaster known as Derry Irvine, devising a system of Kremlin-lite titles until finally settling on Secretary of State for Justice, originated as the King’s conscience. The man of letters and [...]

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