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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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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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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Posted in Terrorism, VM on December 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Dear Diary,
I do so love dear AA Milne.
Samina was a poet with some very odd ideas,
Of cutting peoples’ heads off whilst reciting the Koran
On Wednesday and on Saturday
Especially on the latter day
She wrote things in her diary and tried to make them scan
I am mujahadeen (saw, saw)
I am mujahadeen (chop, chop)
I am mujahadeen
And you [...]
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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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Dear Diary,
Those gorgeous rockers got it right when they sang the above. As the Madonna of the Yardwinder sits snugly in PC Clod’s safe, there are wheels within wheels.
It will be remembered that Mr Calum Jones, solicitor, of HBJ Gateley Waring had an “interesting but benign” explanation of how he came to be involved. The [...]
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Dear Diary,
Apparently, the terrorist attacks on London could have been avoided if only British law enforcement agencies had acted on information supplied by Saudi Arabia. This information, which exists entirely in the imagination of King Abdullah Ibn Saud, has been put front and centre as the noble monarch of the mutilated hands visits London on a [...]
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Dear Diary,
A young man, brought up in Scotland with all the advantages (apart, obviously, from being a Scot) has been convicted of offences under the Terrorism Act. Well, these things happen. This particular wannabe suicide bomber had thousands of pages of information on his computer: a great many were dedicated to ways of maiming and [...]
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Dear Diary,
Lord Justice Stephen Sedley has called for a national DNA database to include every inhabitant of this country and every visitor. Sedley LJ is a genuinely distinguished Judge who is probably unique in being identified with the left. He contributes to the London Review of Books which, whilst generally disgusting, is certainly on the left. [...]
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