How do pet!

February 1, 2012
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So bus drivers aren’t allowed to be friendly any more. That seems to be my impression of the news that Brighton and Hove‘s bus drivers have been banned from uttering friendly greetings. Not just told to only say such words to their regular customers or to their friends, but actually banned. It is now verboten [...]

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Body Image and the Feminist Agenda.

January 31, 2012
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‘Fat is a Feminist Ishooo’ ran the old joke. Many a true word spoken in jest. It is no secret that I have long believed Lynne Featherstone to be the only Liberal-Democrat worthy of being allowed anywhere near Government, so it was a disappointment this morning to read her latest offering on the subject of [...]

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In support of Laurie Penny

January 30, 2012
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Not a post I expected to be writing this afternoon; it was to be about Laurie’s interesting  comments on Channel 4 News last night. However, that’s been trumped, and this is now about online harrassment. One of the Youtube video’s of one of Laurie’s TV appearances over the weekend received this comment from a Twitter [...]

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Bonus Envy.

January 30, 2012
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In my good friend Dr. Fraud’s Psychotic Wagehike Development theory, which extrapolated his Bonus Envy thesis, the ‘too late to cancel’ stage (approximately 3.5 to 6 months before the Olympics are held) is the first period of development in which the Union focus is primarily on the wallet area. Prior to this stage, the Grabitformedido [...]

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*rick Cyclists

January 30, 2012

There is a presumption amongst the guerrilla army of neo-Marxist, Guardian reading, sanctimonious commuters known as cyclists that the only motor driven vehicle they should be forced to share our roads with is State owned. Livingstone’s Bendy buses, running to a bureaucratically decided route and timetable are OK, but those owned by freewheeling, road tax [...]

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A miss is as good as a mile for Calamity Kenny.

January 30, 2012
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Labour’s publicity sous-chef, Kenny Young, expert on all matters Glaswegian, must be whistling softly through his teeth this morning. A narrow escape. A scant few hours before the thinned ranks of the faithful turned up in Castlerigg to hear their beloved ‘tipped to be a future leader’ Miliband expound on his theory of denuding the [...]

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Occupy Psycho-Sociology

January 30, 2012
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From the thrumming intellectual engine at the heart of the Occupy movement, earlier this month: (Davane) I just wanted to point out that I found the Sack Boris Campaign website the other day, and took the opportunity to donate some cash to get some Sack Boris Oyster card wallets. A friend of mine works in [...]

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