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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Having been thwarted in their attempts to have us logged and tagged via Identity Cards (as a consequence of the ineptitude of the civil service in losing databases in the post - God bless bureaucrats) the Government has come up with a more subtle and invidious means of controlling the citizen. A new “Childrens Register” [...]
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Dear Diary,
In my youth, despite Mama’s protests I took that wonderful magazine Jackie. I was particularly fascinated by Cathy and Claire, even though I had to tell Mama that I had not the faintest idea what they were talking about.
The magazine is supposed to have been named after Jacqueline Wilson, but this is obviously an error. In [...]
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Posted in Politics, VM on February 11, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Dear Diary,
A fascinating email from a source close to Jack Doyle and Robbie Graham, who are the two private dicks in the Madonna of the Yardwinder case.
Our source says, “They had successfully returned goods before with the endorsement of the local police. They were offered the chance by an intermediary, who contacted them because of [...]
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Ruthie can’t help thinking that the many people have got the inverse side of the pointy twig in relation to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent comments about Sharia. The Archbishop should however perhaps be more mindful that his musings make headlines, and if there is a reason for him to resign it should be for [...]
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Dear Diary,
I am thrilled to have time to spend with you once more. I have been ‘under the cosh’ in recent weeks, due to the need to earn enough money to support what is, by common consent, a plain and unshowy lifestyle. However, one needs the spondulicks even for that. I am now able to [...]
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Posted in Politics on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
…is continuing at rubbish tips in London. Heavens, don’t these people understand that you need to re-trace your steps, and look in the last places you visited? Ruthie’s experience is that when you’ve looked everywhere else the item which you seek is either in the fridge or down the back of the sofa.
Ruthie wonders whether [...]
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Dear Diary,
The penalty for naming a teddy-bear has now been set at 15 days imprisonment, followed by deportation. At present this sentencing guideline is only applicable in the Sudan, but I expect the Government to attempt to implement it here as soon as they can. Plainly, there will have to be some deference to national [...]
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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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