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Lauren Harries, AKA James Harries- the creepy curly mopped child from 80’s antiques roadshow- was on This Morning yesterday to talk about her transition from male to female. And successfully ruined the potential for a thought provoking discussion of gender dysphoria and instead has made all transsexual’s seem bonkers. Poor Holly Willoughby looks like she’s [...]

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Today I bought the Leicester Mercury, our local paper – mainly for the job section, but also just to catch up on the small-town journalists opinions on life the universe and everything.
The article which particularly drew my eye was on page 15 (if you’re reading along with me), the ‘first person’ column, this week written [...]

Anyone else bored of this story yet? For those living under a rock: Our Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s husband has foolishly ordered some porn and put it on her government expenses form which of course means the whole world finds out.
While it was a pretty stupid thing to do, I really couldn’t care any less [...]

It seems a little redundant to post this as this is very unlikely to be breaking news for anyone. However, Jade Goody has lost her fight with cancer during the early hours of this Mothering Sunday and died aged just 27.
I’m glad that there’s an end to this now, as love or loath Jade no-one [...]

Most people will have seen this by now. Oh dear OK! magazine. Poor Jade isn’t actually even dead and you’re making a bundle from her death whilst the poor girl struggles through what is reported to be her final hours. I couldn’t be more disgusted, but not at all shocked that the media which cashed [...]

Another week goes by and another shockingly ill-informed, bigotted and generally stupid comment from Pope Benedict XVI.
Pink News says:
“Pope Benedict XVI today added to the controversy over the Catholic church’s stance on condoms when he argued that they were not the answer to Africa’s fight against HIV and Aids and could even make the problem [...]

This has incensed me.
A school in Leytonstone, London has decided to put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet, but in order to coincide with LGBT History Month have reworked the text so it is now Romeo and Julian. Of course an MP has something to say about this. Tory MP Philip Davis has said:
“Anyone [...]

From Harold Bishop to Pauline Fowler, though this one is sadder.
Wendy Richard, the actress who played Pauline in Eastenders for nigh on forever and Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? has died today after losing her fight with breast cancer.
I hope they do a Pauline/Miss Brahms/Carry On day in her honor as she was [...]

Its going to be a ponderance this time.
I’m never quite sure what I make of Jade Goody. Although I would not wish what she is going through on anybody I hated her with a passion, yet the Media is manipulating much of my opinion of her. Now I’m confused as to which of my estimations [...]