Dear Diary,
It is encouraging to note that decent things seem to be happening, and even more encouraging to see most of them emanating from the Courts.
In a Judgment of remarkable terseness, the Divisional Court (Moses LJ and Sullivan J) have comprehensively demonstrated that the Government gave in to Saudi Arabia and was, effectively, complicit [...]
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Ruthie is both amused and saddened by the unfolding media saga of Max Mosely, president of the FIA, but with a colourful private life involving sado-masochistic sex with prostitutes, allegedly with Nazi overtones. Ruthie can understand how being the son of the British fascist leader Oswald Mosely, might leave one with a few issues. But [...]
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Dear Diary,
How cosy it is to be back with you again. I am afraid I rather neglected you during the revelry that marked the festive season and the New Year. Although events chez Maiden were domestic they were time consuming. Tucker received his customary presents: a yard of ale, a bolt of keeper’s tweed and a [...]
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Dear Diary,
It may be remembered that I have had occasion previously to discuss the antics of Mr Aamar Anwar, solicitor of the parish of Strathclyde. It is only fair to point out that Mr Anwar was previously quoted in September, a mere 3 months after the bomb attack on Glasgow Airport. So he probably was [...]
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Dear Diary,
The juvenile who is President of the Oxford Union - that home of lost causes - has achieved his 15 minutes of fame. Luke Tryl (a name that sounds very like a pseudonym) has invited one criminal racist and one criminal holocaust-denier to speak. Dear diary, it would be nice if some of Oxford’s [...]
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Dear Diary,
I am quite recovered now, due largely to Mistress Ruthie’s devoted nursing. Really, I have been nursed as if I were a baby.
I have also been much uplifted by the proof that this diary is now required reading in the heart of government. I understand that the Law Officers have cold feet about locking [...]
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Dear Diary,
I am struggling with a particular problem. Plainly, no Maiden has ever voted Conservative. The terms of Great-Grandfather’s peerage preclude it and the Maidens are people of their word. Moreover, betraying one’s class is wonderful fun and Grandfather’s friendship with the Stansgates has endured down the generations to this day.
Of course, until recently there has [...]
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Ruthie is holding the fort here at the blog, VM having disappeared to lie down in a darkened room following a rush of blood to the head following our recent meeting. Ruthie trusts she will be returning refreshed very shortly.
In the meantime it appears that West Yorkshire Police have managed to get something right with [...]
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Dear Diary,
As the Madonna of the Yardwinder rests in PC Clod’s safety deposit box, I am beginning to think that it is a miracle it survived. Mr Marshall Ronald has left a trail amongst the quazillions of pages which bespatter the World Wide Web, which suggests that he is a most unfortunate person when it [...]
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Dear Diary,
As the Conservative Party goes through its traditional autumnal (and alliterative) auto-de-fe the entire body politic seems exercised about immigration. Why?
It seems to be taken as read that immigrants are a bad thing, especially the non-pinky-orange ones. Yet any proof of that proposition is strangely lacking. Certainly, the UK has a net gain in terms of [...]
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