Lord Browne: Twit

Guido Fawkes.

Liking porn is pretty normal for a man - can you imagine what Fatboy Fawkes Googles? - being a colossal corporate crook or a right-wing scumbag blobby blogger is not.

Lord Browne: Count Me Out

Telegraph.

But what if they're in the closet, or don't want to publicly disclose they're gay, like you when you were CEO of BP?

Why does anyone listen to this evil queen?

PS Lord Browne invests in Gay Star News. These corporate cunts were made for each other.

Exclusive: Convicted Gay Corporate Crook Gives Money To Paid Apologists For Corporate Crooks, Gay World Rejoices

The fucking cunts must think we're pricks.

Business News: Saved You A Click

Forbes.

Yes.

An interview with the convicted corporate killer and all-round cunt, Lord Browne, formerly CEO of BP.

“It’s about having good conversations with managers from the top to the bottom [Fnar fnar!]. CEOs are very good at talking about making their places of work inclusive. It’s about finding time to do something about inclusion, make it safe and allow people to be themselves.”

For that to happen, Browne believes more CEOs need to come out as gay and make a stand. “I don’t want to have the title of the most senior person in business to have come out as being gay,” he said. “I would like to lose that title.”

Erm, but you didn't 'come out', dear, you were outed by an ex-boyfriend in a kiss-and-tell in the Mail On Sunday - which you had gone to the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords to try to ban - and then resigned immediately. 

• With apologies to @SavedYouAClick.

The Times: You Couldn't Make It Up Etc

The Times.

The Economist: The Corporate Closet

On the face of it, the corporate world has embraced gay rights with enthusiasm. More than 90% of Fortune 500 companies have policies to prevent homophobic discrimination. Both Lloyd Blankfein, the boss of Goldman Sachs, and Jamie Dimon, the boss of JPMorgan Chase, have spoken out in favour of same-sex marriage. In-house networks for homosexual staff, such as Glam (Gays and Lesbians at McKinsey) and Google’s Gayglers, have become part of the corporate furniture. Lord Browne says he has even heard of business students pretending to be gay in order to increase their chances of landing jobs at elite companies.

Look beyond the welcome signs, however, and the picture is not so good. Neither the Fortune 500 nor the FTSE 100 has a single openly gay CEO. Christopher Bailey will become the FTSE’s first when he takes over as boss of Burberry later this year. An estimated 41% of gay employees in the United States and 34% in Britain remain in the closet, the book [Lord Browne's The Glass Closet] notes...

Lord Browne is reasonably convincing that coming out is good for business. Embracing gay rights helps firms win the war for educated talent—not just because they stand a better chance of recruiting gay employees (who constitute perhaps 5-10% of the workforce) but also because it sends a positive signal to gay-friendly straights. Coming out probably improves the productivity of gay employees: he cites a raft of statistics, together with his own biography, to show that people are more creative if they are not using a quarter of their brains to hide who they are.

However, Lord Browne’s enthusiastic advocacy leads him to gloss over some of the difficult issues raised by the move towards more gay-friendly workplaces. He never has a bad word to say about the “diversity consultants” who provide him with most of the book’s statistics. He seems to have overlooked that these consultants are members of a self-serving industry that constantly redefines discrimination so as to keep itself in work. He praises bosses who speak out in favour of gay marriage, but says nothing about those with sincere reasons to oppose it, and their right to express their opinions—such as Brendan Eich, who was forced to quit as boss of Mozilla, a software firm, for this reason...

The Economist.

PS You have to register to read this online, but that's free.

Lord Browne: Even More

Just days ago he won support for saying companies should take a proactive stance in combating anti-gay attitudes in Russia by sending gay employees there.

But former BP chief executive Lord Browne of Madingley has now risked irritating gay rights campaigners by trying to explain Vladimir Putin’s motivation for introducing homophobic legislation...

“To me, Russia’s anti-gay legislation is more about political posturing than it is about a sincere disgust for gay people,” Lord Browne writes.

“As others have pointed out, it is likely he is seeking to divert attention from other restrictive laws, passed at the end of 2011 in the aftermath of mass protests, that more broadly limit civil rights. In an echo of persecutions of the past, the homosexual minority is being used as a pawn in the pursuit of power.”

The Independent continues to miss the point quite spectacularly again.

The Independent.

Lord Browne: Not Again!

Financial Times.

Lord Browne: Can Someone Just Kill Me Now!?

I do not - literally - give a flying fuck what this right-wing gay shitbag says about anything.
Mother please, make it stop!

Lord Browne: Afuckingain!

Russia, gays, wibble wibble.
Oh just die, you mass murdering gay dwarf.

The Guardian: Any Chance Of You Running Another Story About That Valiant Champion Of Gay Rights Today?

Have you come out at work, like he didn't.
Tell us your story, so we don't have to do any work.

Lord Browne: Again!

Oh do fuck off you millionaire austerity backing, earth raping corporate gay mass murderer little Eichmann.

Lord Browne: Nosed

Oh do duck off, you mass murdering closeted multi-millionaire austerirty-imposing gay killer crook.
'Weep for me while I weeped to the top of you and then pissed on you.'
Only the made-up 'Glass Closet' stood in this brave man's way...

FFS!

And an ahem really hard-hitting video interview with Scott Mills, the unthinking gay man's Evan Davis. Gawd knows why the Guardian got Mrs Mills to do this.

Lord Browne: Fracking Cunt

While perusing one of the endless articles about fracking Fagburn was surprised to notice a small detail he had previously missed.
The chair of Cuadrilla, Britain's only shale gas driller, is our old friend Lord Browne.
Yes, John Browne, the ex-head of BP - ie one of the biggest corporate crooks and killers of recent times.
He is now also senior business adviser to the coalition government - so, no conflict of interest there!
Is there no end to this (gay) man's utter cuntery?

Lord Browne: Your Oil Blood Money Not At Work

The Daily Telegraph does it best to bring about a new class war with a Hello!-style guided tour of Lord Browne's palatial riverside Chelsea home - one of many, we learn.
You earned it, dude!

Lord Browne: Stained Class

Amusing Freudian typo on Pink News.

The book by Lord Browne, corporate killer, environment destroyer, and professional perpetual closet case, is to be called The Glass Closet.
Fagburn thinks Pink News' title would have been more apt. 
So brave etc etc...

Thought For The Day: Lord [Annoying Square Brackets] Browne

“They say that their [people in business's] clients or their customers may not like [people being gay]. I’ve heard that so many times. In the early days it frightened me so much that I became determined to hide away who I was. I feel so much more calm now. It’s a huge liberation.” 

Today's big Saturday Interview in The Times is with Lord Browne.
The business man's Adam Lambert.
An unconvicted corporate mass murderer when he was head of BP, now - presumably - a "controversial... gay icon".
Even though John Browne's only out now cause he committed perjury by trying to cover up the fact that he was gay.
But what the hey, eh?

PS Some "interesting" statuettes behind Lord John in that photo. If I wins the lottery I am so gonna buy me some of those naked antique dudes.

Out On The Street: Wall Street, That Is

Mission statement:

Out on the Street™ brings together senior leaders at the Director-level or higher, from the Wall Street community and select allied industries, with the goals of:

• Creating a senior network of LGBT leaders on the Street
• Creating opportunities for business development, as well as deepening current client relationships through LGBT connections
• Leveraging straight allies within the organizations
• Helping their companies attract, retain and develop LGBT employees
• Improving the perception of Wall Street in the LGBT community and on campus

This sinister self-styled LGBT-friendly Bilderberg group meets in London tomorrow - "invitation-only", natch.
There's a puff-piece in the Daily Telegraph today - plus an interview with Lord Browne.
Funny, they're not normally this enthusiastic about gay events...

Lord Bowne: Out In The City

'Although the UK has some well-known gay entrepreneurs, only a handful of openly gay people have run the largest companies.
'These include Sir Charles Allen, former chief executive of ITV, executive chairman of Granada and chairman of EMI, currently regional ambassador for the Olympic Games. Lord Browne was another, though he stayed in the closet for years.
'There is also Michael Bishop, now Lord Glendonbrook, the ex-chairman of BMI, whose success in building up the airline led to a £223m sale to Lufthansa in 2009. He sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and is a prominent voice for gay rights.

'Another is Tim Hely Hutchison, group chief executive of Hachette Livre UK, Britain’s largest publisher, an old Etonian and son of an earl. He went to Oxford, but started his business career from scratch.
'Entrepreneurs include Allegra McEvedy, the chef who co-founded Leon, the healthy fast-food chain. 'She gave up her role there in 2009 to focus on writing and television.
'In the media, notable entrepreneurs include Eileen Gallagher, founder of Shed Media, creator of the television series Footballers’ Wives. She earned £3.8m from a £100m takeover by Time Warner.
Prominent gay figures in the City have included Ashley Steel, recently promoted to be vice-chairman of KPMG’s UK arm, and Robert Taylor, former chief executive of Kleinwort Benson.'

Financial Times. 
This list was written as a postscript to a news story about Lord Browne - former head of BP - giving a talk in London on the business world's intolerance of homosexuality.

Browne quit BP in 2007 after being found guilty of lying in court about how he'd met his boyfriend.

He has said "being outed is a blessing".
His business and political careers suggest he has made a pact with Satan. 

• BBC TV News item. And Andrew Pierce putting the boot into Browne in the Mail.

Fagburn Awards 28: Evil Queen Of The Year

Lord Browne.
Former Chief Executive of BP. Oversaw a severe programme of cuts that has led to a string of ecological disasters like this year's Deepwater Horizon explosion and Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Resigned after committing perjury due to his own closetry.
Headhunted by David Cameron to oversee a severe programme of cuts in the Tories' government spending.
The Browne Review recommended lifting the £3,000 cap on university tuition fees.
And the rest, as they say, is you making history...