The Raft Journal

Anchored just off the Coast of Reality

Thursday, 25 August 2016

It's a train not a Tardis

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 “I boarded a crowded train with a group of colleagues; we journeyed through the train looking for places; there wasn’t a place for all of ...
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Tuesday, 5 July 2016

The Stages of Adjustment

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The stages to adjustment are, approximately: Shock, Anger, Denial, and eventually..... Adjustment It is not clear where we are as a socie...
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Monday, 4 July 2016

You're not from round here, are you?

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The EU had a wonderful vision at its heart; peaceful co-existence.    The shorthand for this is 'multiculturalism'.   Everybody woul...
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Friday, 24 June 2016

The Next Chapter

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Let us look at the breakdown of the referendum calmly. Out of ten people, three said nothing at all.  Of the next six people, three wanted...
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Thursday, 23 June 2016

Story Arc

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Back in 1975 the world looked like this: The USSR was, we were assured, a thriving economy.  But it was rapidly running out of basic thing...
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Monday, 8 December 2014

It's a bus, not a Tardis

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To anybody with a scrap of common sense, it is obvious that a bus is a finite space which is smaller on the inside than the outside.   This ...
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Monday, 17 November 2014

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

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When Dr Matt Taylor gave the good news about the Rosetta mission, and with every right to be proud of his achievement in space exploration f...
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Friday, 7 November 2014

Remembrance 2014

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The long process of reviewing the past century continues but Sunday is for  remembrance. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
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Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Job of the month - ferry clerk

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Oh I do like to be beside the seaside View from your office window Get paid to be in a beautiful part of the country.  All you have t...
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Friday, 6 June 2014

6 June 1944

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Portal This doorway was one of the last which men passed through on their way down to the troop ships in Operation Overlord.   It...
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Monday, 2 June 2014

Freebie - The supremacy of European Law

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David Cameron and other MPs think they can negotiate with European law.  It is a very old delusion caused by not being bothered to buy even ...
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Monday, 7 April 2014

How to marry your own daughter

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Now that marriage is a notarial contract of cohabitation recogized across the EU, it is time to look at the other out-moded and frankly offe...
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Saturday, 22 February 2014

Vibrant

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pulsating with vigor and energy: the vibrant life of a large city. vigorous; energetic; vital: a vibrant personalit...
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Monday, 17 February 2014

How to Introduce Rationing

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Politicians and civil servants have never forgotten the thrill of total war and the power it gave them to direct all the goods and services ...
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Sunday, 9 February 2014

In which I agree with Peter Hain

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At last.  He [Peter Hain] told The Independent : “Ukip is hoovering up the anti-politics vote. It goes beyond Europe and even beyond immi...
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Sunday, 19 January 2014

The Gambler

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This vid would never get on TV now because of the references to cigareets and whisky, but it has a good lyric for UKIP councillor, David Sil...
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Those portraits in full (1)

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William Hague Lee Jasper
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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

It makes yer fink

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The film about Nelson Mandela comes out and before the credits have rolled they announce his death. The drama about The Great Train Robber...
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Saturday, 14 December 2013

Stephen Hester, Shake me up, Judy

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"I have come down" repeats Grandfather Smallweed , hooking the air towards him with all his ten fingers at once to  once, ...
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Friday, 6 December 2013

Social Workers have too much free time

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....the chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers Bridget Robb says the report on social work in the UK offers an insig...
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Monday, 2 December 2013

TOWIE

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A load of stinking offal A foreign woman who was raped whilst in hospital is being told that she cannot take action because the rapist...
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Thursday, 21 November 2013

Perhaps we should stop calling them paramedics?

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In May 2007 an ambulance was called to a young woman, Sarah Thomas, who was having trouble breathing. Miss Thomas was recovering from a brai...
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Sunday, 10 November 2013

Remembrance 2013

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We Will Remember Them Compromise.    Much has been written about the misunderstanding of the poppy. Locally, churches are holding...
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Friday, 1 November 2013

A free and pluralistic media to sustain European democracy

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I can't face wading through all this so let's concentrate on one feature: Recommendation:   There should be a provision of s...
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Friday, 18 October 2013

Who writes these adverts?

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The Story of  Heston's Marvelous Mince. After that 'magic bean' recipe with the cockerel's gonads, I'm not sure I want...
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Sunday, 29 September 2013

Ken Wallis - A Celebration

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To Old Buckenham Airfield for a celebration of the life of  Our Ken - Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE, DEng (hc), Ph.D (hc), CE...
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