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| REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 10 October 2011 |
| 1. Going on a Holiday It’s said that ‘politics makes for strange bed-fellows’. This time it isn’t William Hague and his younger special adviser, it’s the defence secretary and his younger special adviser – i.e. his ‘best man’. They have been inseparable for 15 years apparently meeting when Adam Werritty was a 20 year old student at Edinburgh University and Dr Liam Fox gave a lecture. Adam Werritty is referred to as ‘the best man’ as well as ‘the best man’ at Dr F's suspect wedding which took place a week after the then 43 year old bachelor shadow foreign secretary had entertained a group of British students in a Paris hotel with one 20 year old spending the night...a week before Fox ran against Call Me Dave, etc for leadership of the party. Nothing dubious there. Sleep-overs, flat sharing, matching outfits, karaoke, taxpayer holidays, first class travel, ‘coincidental’ encounters, Tory donor funding, dodgy business associations and arms deals. Dear oh dear. Friends say that when Fox and Werritty make a toast, "It is to Queen and country". Gay or not gay - not the point. It’s his lies and appointment of AW as executive director and sole employee of Atlantic Bridge, that US neo-con shadowy super- right-wing charity Dr Fox set up 17 years ago recently closed down because it turned out not to be charitable at all. Tut tut. A YouGov poll has found that only 19% of Brits think Fox should keep his job. Trouble ahead. According to a Nivea Closeness report, Brits spend £11,495 a year on their ‘best’ friend, on average 28 hours a month together, 22 hours communicating via email, social networks or phone. Has Dr Fox been a bit more generous with his best man who made a mere £20,000 in 4 years while his travel expenses were at least £85,000, 40 meetings in 18 months? Perhaps the honeymoon has lasted a bit too long. A Tory friend has said Dr F is ‘a victim of smear and innuendo...one of the most insidious and personal vendettas that I have seen in politics’. Now who doesn’t take their best friend on all their business, defence, holiday trips? He has been seen sneaking into number 10 via the back door. We’re in The Thick of It now. Dr F has said: "I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend.” Perhaps he could use Foxy Knoxy’s slick PR firm at this moment in time. He’s having himself investigated. Follow the money.... 2. The Single Lady I’m afraid I didn’t succumb to Beyonce (the only woman who has ever been pregnant) at Glastonbury ‘doin’ it for feminism’ by gyrating in tiny pants on stage – so boring – but to rip off De Keersmaeker – now that is just wrong – and stupid. Beyonce’s new Countdown video is a duplicate of Belgian modern dance choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s 1983 Rosas Danst Rosas, last performed in 2009. Other moves duplicate Achterland, which won a Dance Screen award in 1994. Did she think we wouldn’t remember or recognize De Keersmaeker’s brilliant choreography? De K told a Danish blog: "I didn't know anything about this. This is stealing. What's rude about it is that they don't even bother about hiding it. They seem to think they could do it because it's a famous work." Or because they have no imagination or inventiveness. When asked if she was perhaps proud that Beyonce was copying her moves: "Am I honoured? Look, I've seen local school kids doing this. That's a lot more beautiful." Beyonce told MTV News that the video contained "German [sic] modern dance references, believe it or not". She explained the process as "evolving [and] spontaneous". Lest we forget, the Single Ladies video was ripped off from Bob Fosse and her performance at the Billboard Music Awards was ‘inspired’ by pop singer Lorella Cuccarini. Rumour has it that she added padding to her bump on Australian TV. Beyonce's publicist Yvette Noel-Schure said the reports on the false bump were: "Stupid, ridiculous and false." No one ever said you had to be clever to be famous. 3. I Saw Her Standing There Sir Paul is clearly in love – with himself. He may as well have slammed his new American heiress wife’s legs in the door of his getaway Lexus. She was dumped in the back seat while he jumped in the front with the driver and naturally waved to the adoring crowds. Whose favourite is he now? |