Family Affairs

WILLIAM HAGUE’S VERY PERSONAL STATEMENT

Sorry – on a current affairs roll here….but just feel a brief mention required about William Hague’s extraordinary personal statement about not being gay. I do feel sorry for him but WHAT WAS HE THINKING?? I don’t think many of us were aware of the cybergossip and his decision to release a statement has made it FAR worse.

Here is the difference – last week there was a picture in the paper of the Foreign Secretary and his new special adviser. My observations were along the lines of “hmm, why does he wear that dreadful baseball hat and mmm doesn’t the young Mr Myers look cool – jeans and pointy blue shoes, aviators and hair”. That was about it. Simple thoughts. Now the same picture is being printed and I’m looking at it in an entirely different light – young, sexy new aide looking lovingly at William and yes, now you come to mention it they do look a bit camp and did they share a room together? ….

It’s like the bit in Ali G when the politician was accused of having sex with a horse and he goes down a ridiculous path of denial – all about falling in front of the horse accidentally at the same time as .. you get the picture.

TOO MUCH INFORMATION. The rumours have gone from a smattering of anonymous internet users to the front pages of every newspaper – probably of interest worldwide and now we all know about what he hasn’t been doing.

And why has Christopher Myers resigned if he’s done nothing wrong?

Odd.

FAMILY MEAL REPLACED BY “TWO DINNERS”

There is further evidence of the decline of the family meal with one in three mothers cooking “double dinners”.
How many of you parents out there eat with your children every night?
Apparently we mostly cook two meals now. One for the children around 5pm and one for ourselves and our partner around 8pm. [...]

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BLAIR’S MEMOIRS

The news is full of quotes taken from Tony Blair’s memoirs entitled “A Journey”, released in the UK yesterday.
Apparently the books have been flying off the shelves. Which surprises me. I’m glad I’m not a publisher, I wouldn’t have thought it would have been a bestseller in this current climate and certainly wouldn’t [...]

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“SHAME” – NEW SINGLE BY ROBBIE WILLIAMS AND GARY BARLOW

Being a HUGE Robbie Williams fan – I have to say I’m very disappointed with the new single due to be released in October. It’s just the two of them crooning with some terrible lyrics. My daughter likes it though and maybe it’s a grower (as we used to say in the [...]

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FIVE CHILEAN MINERS SHOWING SIGNS OF DEPRESSION

ONLY FIVE??? Out of 33? That’s pretty impressive. I’d definitely be showing signs of full blown depression by now. I cannot imagine what it is like for them to be stuck in the middle of the earth. WHY have they been told how long it’s going to take them to [...]

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PAKISTAN FLOODS AFFECT 20 MILLION PEOPLE

Pakistan PM Gilani says the floods have meant that 20m people were now homeless, a much higher estimate than the UN recently quoted.
This is a disaster of massive proportions – especially worrying too is that the United Nations has confirmed at least one case of cholera among the victims, in the Swat valley.
Pakistan’s UN envoy [...]

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UNICEF “PUT IT RIGHT” CAMPAIGN

Please help Unicef promote their new video for the “Put It Right” campaign. “Put it right” is a five year initiative by UNICEF UK to inspire action to protect the rights of children everywhere. As part of the video Radiohead contributed their “videotape” track:-

Please watch and pass it on.

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