Cartoon Time: Sunday School People.

Green leader Natalie Bennett has extended the LGBT section of their website to LGBTIQ. Sounds like a Countdown Conundrum to me.

LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. IQ adds Intersex and Queer. Any more letters and Nat will have the entire alphabet.

The attitude to sexuality, as with religion, should be more than just toleration. I would go further. Don’t tolerate mere tolerance.

Tolerating something implies grudging acceptance - not approval. It’s condescending.

In 21st Century Britain freedom should be the watchword. The freedom to practise a chosen religion or the sexuality of choice without hindrance.

Everyone has the right to self-identify, but the language used sometimes seems a closed book to the rest of us.

Queers may hope to rebrand this word as an inoffensive umbrella term - but when I was young it was one of abuse.

I don’t tick any minority boxes as a middle-aged, middle class, heterosexual white man so I could no more bring myself to say what sounds offensive than call black people the N word...

Sunday People political editor Nigel Nelson.

A piece so glib, patronising and wanky it sounds like a Sunday School lesson.

Included mainly though for their baffling choice of this artless cartoon.

Eh?

PS From Friday's Mirror; 'Police need gay lingo [sic] lessons to prevent another life being ruined by child porn charges'. Most odd - the article doesn't seem to explain what actually happened.

Sunday People: Latest Updates On Those VIP Sex Party Child Murders That Totally Deffo 100% Really Really Actually Happened

Sunday People.

Admittedly, I'm going to look pretty stupid if this all turns out to be true...

Cyril Smith Cover-Up: Who Knew??!

Downing Street cynically tried to prevent the release of damaging files exposing the scale of the cover-up over paedophile MP Cyril Smith.

The Cabinet Office repeatedly blocked The Mail on Sunday’s attempts to see the bombshell documents – and caved in only after being threatened with High Court action.

After the shocking year-long fight, we can reveal the content of the papers, which expose just how much the Establishment knew about the late politician’s sexual and physical abuse of young boys.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron, both Ministers in the Cabinet Office, have been accused of ‘colluding’ in the latest cover-up of evidence that could expose VIP paedophile rings.

The secrecy row will also focus attention on Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, who has become known as ‘Sir Cover-Up’ after blocking twho has become known as ‘Sir Cover-Up’ after blocking the release of dozens of messages exchanged by Tony Blair and George W Bush ahead of the Iraq war.

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Following The Mail on Sunday’s victory, it can be revealed for the first time that:

- Margaret Thatcher was personally told that police had investigated claims that Smith indecently assaulted teenage boys in the 1960s.

- Thatcher was explicitly warned that awarding a knighthood to the 29-stone Liberal MP risked damaging the ‘integrity of the honours system’, but went ahead anyway.

- A senior Whitehall mandarin took the ‘exceptional’ step of contacting the country’s top prosecutor and police to find out why Smith was never charged with abusing boys at a hostel he helped run.

- Civil servants feared the secret Smith police file might be made public in 1982 – when a burglary at the Fleet Street offices of The Sun newspaper revealed the editor was in possession of a copy. This revelation will lead to speculation that the break-in was linked to attempts to cover up Smith’s crimes. *

One insider told The Mail on Sunday that the matter is ‘on the Deputy Prime Minister’s desk’. The fact that the Cabinet Office blocked five attempts by The Mail on Sunday to see the papers will deepen fears of a cover-up at the highest levels over the activities of VIP paedophiles...

Mail On Sunday.

Oh dear.

Think most of this is official confirmations, not revelations.

And what about this cover-up? Larger-than-life Lib Dem Sir Cyril Smith dies aged 82, Daily Mail obituary, September 2010.

* Kevin Maguire, then Sun editor, says he doesn't remember a break-in - 'nor Does Scotland Yard' - or possessing the file - no link yet.

Eurovision: Wurst Place

Fagburn extends his heartiest congratulations to the adorable Austrian bearded fella in a frock, Conchita Wurst, the winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Which I didn't watch.
Good to see the Twittergays keeping this in proportion.
Will we ever be the same again? etc etc.

PS The Sunday People deleted this tweet pretty quickly....

Oops!

Thanks to @rudemrlang x

Paul Flowers: This Sunday's Story About 'The Shamed Gay Crystal Methodist' ©

Shamed banker the Rev Paul Flowers aims to profit from his sins by becoming an after-dinner speaker.

He hopes for fees of up to £5,000 to tell business conferences about his lurid life as a vicar who blew a fortune on rent boys.

A friend told the Sunday People: “He always gave amazing sermons and people will pay a lot to hear him talk of his troubles.”
Sunday People.

Paul Flowers is the Sunday tabloids' gift that keeps on giving.
Not cause he's done something wrong, but because they know he's not going to sue.
A friend said!!? 
Is that really the best you can do?
A friend said; "Ya mama got a glass eye with the fish in it!"
And thus that is a fact.
FFS.

Sunday People: Press Release Masquerading As News

"I've just made up a ludicrous press release no-one will believe."
"Do you think anyone will fall for it?"
"No, anyone with an IQ over 40 will just laugh at its preposterousness. Would even the wildest guesstimate of the number of gay men in the Olympic Village claim it's greater than, say, than the number in Manchester's gay village on a Saturday night?"
"Hmmm... you're right. It would also be really easy to check how many men on Grindr actually are in the Olympic Village."
"Maybe Britain's worst tabloid, the Sunday People will run it though."
"Pink News will probably reprint it."
"It's funny, they keep running puff pieces about Grindr, a fool might think they're angling for advertising."
"And written by "James Park", who doesn't exist, but is rather obviously Pink News' owner Ben Cohen."
"Result! Pub?"