Rich Lady Having Another Baby: Mere Words Can Not Express My Joy!

Fingers crossed it's black and gay.

The Great War: Warnography

Needless to say, the centenary has been seized as a military propaganda opportunity. Last week David Cameron crudely compared Vladimir Putin in Ukraine to Germany under the Kaiser in 1914 (and under Hitler). This was neither true nor helpful. The prime minister added that Britain was “not about to launch a European war”. In which case why mention it at all, and why also send troops to train in eastern Europe? ...

The chief lesson of 1914 must be not recklessly to rattle sabres across the frontiers of Europe until all else is lost. The Germans have learned that. In Ukraine they are still counselling restraint. Britain is doing the opposite, as its leaders gently dust themselves in glory. When Cameron last year allotted £50m to “remembering the lessons” of 1914, he was also planning to go to war on Syria. I wonder what lesson taught him that.

1914: The Great War Has Become A Nightly Pornography Of Violence Simon Jenkins, The Guardian.

Meanwhile in Gaza...

Update: A blunt warning from Prince William, a century after war ravaged the continent: Ukraine crisis is a threat to all Europe Mail Online.

'In April, the Mail reported how Prince Charles told a Polish woman, who had lost many of her Jewish family in the Nazi Holocaust: ‘And now Putin is doing just about the same [in the Ukraine] as Hitler...’

Thankfully, our own dear Royal Family stand above politics, except when engaging in propaganda so crude, you'd have to be as stupid and inbred as them to fall for it.

Daily Mail: Come On Kate, Show Us You Care!

The Duchess of Cambridge has broken a worldwide celebrity protest after secretly attending a wedding at a hotel owned by the controversial Sultan of Brunei.

The 32-year-old slipped in and out the underground car park of the Dorchester Hotel inside a blacked-out people carrier - in the hope her presence would not be noticed.

The Mayfair hotel has been the focus of a worldwide boycott backed by the likes of Stephen Fry, Anna Wintour and Sir Richard Branson, all of whom have voiced their opposition to harsh new Islamic laws in Brunei that have increased the punishment for homosexuality to death by stoning...

Daily Mail.

Cause our beloved Royal Family are normally such great moral agents - and they never support dodgy regimes and tyrants, yah?

Remember all their snubs to the 41 Commonwealth countries where homosexuality is still illegal?

No?

This must have caused some brains to explode at yesterday's editorial meeting at Mail HQ.

'Why has gorgeous Kate not joined the vacuous celebrity boycott of this nasty foreign-type who we don't like either?'

'You'd think this silly little rich girl would be a shoo-in for this upper class revolt.'

Only in a highly depoliticised (gay) culture could something like this be thought to be of any consequence.

The Sultan meets the  in-laws. Your turn next, Kate!
UK arms exports to Brunei.

Letter Of The Day: The Times

Thanks to Mark. x

PS Is there a word for that sinking feeling when you post or RT something then realise half the country has, too?

PPS Also from today's Times...

James Middleton: Scurrilous Rumours

Can there be a more perfect person for a fawning Daily Mail weekend profile than James Middleton, international playboy, enterpreneur, one of Britain's most confirmed eligible bachelors, and - but of course - brother to the radiant Kate and the beautfully-bottomed young party planner, Pippa?
But, and even better for the Mail, he is a man of which we know little.
Though there has been a lot of "tittle-tattle" written about him (often in the Mail, but we'll gloss over that).
Happily, James will now put the record straight.
He's not really a "hellraiser", despite those pictures that appeared online and in the press of him and some chums at a party in various states of undress.

One of the images appeared to show him using a hairdryer on his pubic hair. Another saw him sitting naked, by a fireplace, holding a bottle of lager. In a third photograph, he bared a waxed chest and well-toned upper body, with one hand covering his modesty. [He was also pictured in drag - FB].
Perhaps the most memorable shot showed Middleton and three male companions, with their trousers and underpants round their ankles, standing with their backs to camera on a leafy rural road. A nearby road sign proclaimed: ‘Back Lane.’ Lawyers hired by the Middleton family successfully instructed newspapers never to re-publish the images, which had leaked via a Facebook account with inadequate security settings. But, inevitably, they have endured in cyberspace. And old reputations die hard...

"Out-of-character", say friends. 
"He’s actually the reverse of a party animal" says one, "quiet and a little bit shy. One of his hobbies is beekeeping, which speaks volumes."
Doesn't it, just? 

But if James has sometimes played hard, he works bloody hard, too, "he claims to work 14-hour days" at his two cake businesses.
And no, he's not been bankrolled by the multi-millionaire Ma and Pa Middletons.
It is mere convenience that means he operates from their business compound in Berkshire, his cakes are sold through their Party pieces website, and it seems they've secured his business debts - handy, as it's currently trading at a (small) loss.
Oh, and he also lives rent-free at a million pound pad they bought in Chelsea. 
And no, James hasn't been considering a role in Made In Chelsea.
"'Just a typical, speculated rumour’ of the sort his family has sadly become ‘so used to’."
Poor show, evil newspapers!
But what about the "scurrilous rumours" we've heard about young master James being a big old gay?

A failure to live up to the ‘It-boy’ stereotype by falling out of nightclubs with blondes on each arm has seen James endure widespread speculation about his sexuality. After he gave the reading at sister Kate’s 2011 Royal Wedding, web forums buzzed with chatter.
James has never publicly discussed his private life, on the grounds that it would open a Pandora’s Box. But one of his closest friends — who was authorised by Middleton to speak to me — described the suggestion that he is gay as ‘ridiculous’.
‘Believe me,’ she said, ‘anyone who has known James for any length of time would know that’s nonsense. He’s just a heterosexual 25-year-old who is in no rush to couple up and seems happy with the single life.'
Another friend said: ‘If you’ve ever heard James talk privately about girls, you’d know he’s not gay. But he’s not that bothered by the rumours, either. He’s quite “meterosexual” so, in a way, he takes it as a compliment.’

Jolly glad to hear it.
Can our near blue-blooded bachelor boy stay single for long?

Kate Middleton: Tits

Interesting to recall how little uproar there was about this pap shot of Prince William with his cock out in 2008.
I've lost count of how many articles the Mail Online has published about those "grotesque" and "sickening" photos of Kate Middleton since yesterday -  15?
Tits beat dong.
Scissors, paper, rock.

PS Don't posh people piss funny? Is that etiquette? 

James Middleton: Is Kate's Brother A Big Gayer Or What?

It's the question everyone's asking!

That's that settled.
Further conclusive evidence here.

Update: I had posted a photo of Mr Middleton in drag but curiously this has since been removed from the internet. Of course, dressing up in drag when drunk is far from a sure sign of being gay - it's something straight public school boys rugger bugger-types think is quite a laugh.
The above photo shows James proudly showing off a big pink cake he has made - for that is what he does for a living.
He is a cake decorator.