Donald Trump: Promises Promises

Mark Steel in The Independent.

Sounds about as attractive as I'd Bottom for Hillary.

Gay Marriage: The Last Last Word?

Several MPs opposed to gay marriage asked, “Where will this lead next?” They should have a competition to see who can go the furthest, with Edward Leigh yelling: “Then we’ll be allowed to marry a stick of rock, which will get jealous if it suspects the man has chewed a liquorice allsort, then the man will notice the rock has ‘I want a divorce’ written all through it, and it will move out to live in a tin on housing benefit which the taxpayer pays for, and if we refuse we’ll be taken to the European Court of Confectionary Rights.”

Mark Steel, The Independent. 

Fagburn's a bit burnt out with gaymarriage stuff at the moment - other things suddenly seemed more important.
And there's a limit to how many press releases from MPs and Sir Peter Tatchell telling us how wonderful they are you can read in one day.  
But Mark's wonderful demolition job on the antis made me honk like a clown's horn.

• Cake toppers model's own. etc etc etc etc

PS Anyone remember The Independent's Equal Partners "campaign"? Nope, nor me. But we signed a petition...

PS Please also read Frank Furedi on terrorism as media spectacle.

Thought For The Day: Mark Steel

"There's a company called Atos, that you may have heard of, and the achievement it's best known for is to be despised by thousands of the disabled. Graffiti such as "Atos kills" is common on some housing estates, which must be why Atos is one of the main sponsors of the Paralympics. It makes sense, in the way that if you had a gay Olympics, you'd get it sponsored by the Pope..."

The great Mark Steel in the Independent on the cruel irony of Atos sponsoring the Paralympics.
Atos are currently being paid £100m a year to try and scare the disabled, sick and vulnerable off benefits.
I wish them all dead.  

PS There are a series of actions against Atos hypocrisy - Disabled People Against The Cuts, Atos Victims Support Network.