Starr Wars.
by Anna Raccoon on June 24, 2015Monday, I managed to slip loose from the protective cordon that has been thrown around me – “for my own good” – and take the train down to London. It has been...
View ArticleClass and the Common Girl.
by Anna Raccoon on July 29, 2015Reading one of Moor Larkin’s excellent posts the other night, an excerpt from the Pollard report caught my eye. I had seen it before, but in isolation; now I was reading...
View Article*Exclusive* – Mandatory Reporting and Meirion Jones.
by Anna Raccoon on September 1, 2015Meirion Jones has long been an advocate of ‘Mandatory Reporting’ – a system of criminal sanctions for those who have care of children but have failed to report...
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by Anna Raccoon on September 16, 2015Meirion Jones has long been an advocate of ‘Mandatory Reporting’ – a system of criminal sanctions for those who have care of children but have failed to report...
View ArticleClass and the Common Girl.
by Anna Raccoon on September 23, 2015Reading one of Moor Larkin’s excellent posts the other night, an excerpt from the Pollard report caught my eye. I had seen it before, but in isolation; now I was...
View ArticleCollateral Damage.
by Anna Raccoon on October 17, 2015I woke last Sunday morning with a particular image in my mind, that could be aptly described as ‘collateral damage’ to the continuing #CSA saga. Within an hour, I had...
View ArticleThe Divine Ms Raccoon’s Annual Beanfeast….
by Anna Raccoon on November 2, 2015I said we’d organise something, so here’s a very important date to put in your diaries – 19th November 2015. Previous get togethers have been in London, generally...
View ArticleThe Savile Memorial Celebrations…
by Anna Raccoon on February 26, 2016100 years ago last year, a bitter little man, a man who hoped to be ‘somebody’ one day, a man with his head full of the ‘injustices’ of his life, but who, despite...
View ArticleFeeding Time at the Legal Zoo.
by Anna Raccoon on July 24, 2016It started with a lie; a false allegation; a mendacity, a calumny, a canard. However you dress it up, it simply wasn’t true.40 year-old Georgina Ray decided that the...
View ArticleWhy Ms Raccoon is howling at the biggest moon since the year she was born and...
by Anna Raccoon on November 15, 2016Other than a couple of days last week, I have been in hospital for the past three weeks. First Sepsis, then the effects of the attempts to cure me of that. I am now...
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