These seem to be the main topics of the news recently. Paris
Either Paris Hilton (official dumb bitch) has had her jail sentence cut in half for good behaviour. Not sure how, as I don’t think she’s even started her sentence yet. This all seems very strange indeed to me.
Also, Paris yesterday saw the inauguration of a new president of France. Hooray for Sarkozy. I have always utterly despised Chirac and it’s nice to hear the new president condemn the posturing of his predecessor to veto any UN action in Iraq as arrogant. Too right it was: disarming the UN made a US invasion a certainty rather than a great probability. It will be nice to not totally despise our nearest neighbour’s head of state.
Prince
So Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq. There is much hoo-ha about this, with various rubbish media rather predictably running the populist line of “if Iraq’s too dangerous for a prince, why are our boys there”? Ahem, not the point. I am sure that Harry would go to Iraq and serve with distinction. He seems like a good bloke to me and he’s certainly grown up to be cute, which I think came as a surprise to the whole nation. But I digress. In days of yore, royals would lead from the front (ish). This was all well and good when fighting the Frogs or the Hun, but said Frogs and Hun could be relied upon to act passably like gentlemen in the event of catching a prisoner. In Iraq, any area with Harry in it would be a magnet for attack. In the best case, this would be a huge diversion of resources. In the worst case, he would be captured and could fairly surely not rely on the Geneva Protocol. Guerrilla war is now all about beheadings being shown on YouTube and less about civilised PoW camps. That would be some prize for Harry’s potential captors and would have to be avoided.
It was obvious that Harry was never going to be sent to anywhere in real danger, simply because of the danger this would present to others. How grim his life must be. He’s not academically bright, he has no privacy, he can’t do the job he wants to and both his closest relatives will one day be king of England. Meanwhile, he’ll get to be, well, constitutionally pointless. I feel sorry for him. Should he feel the need for a bit of intimate comfort, he should feel free to Skype me. I’m all heart, me.
Prejudice
The “story” of the missing kid in Portugal continues to be covered in a truly disgraceful way on Sky TV. The police have one principal suspect, who seems to me to be little more than a local busybody. Endless coverage continues to say that the police don’t have enough evidence to charge him (in truth, they’ve never had enough evidence to arrest him, which is most probably because he’s totally innocent). Yet this man’s life is now ruined because he will be recognised forever as the man who killed a young kid. Why? Because Sky said so.
These seem to be the main topics of the news recently. 
5 comments:
Sky News is a despicable channel. Paris Hilton is a despicable person and you, dear Manc, are despicable for fancying a ginger - prince or no prince.
Ginger (pronounced to rhyme with finger) is oddly cute I think. Also, I find that others spurn them, which makes them easier prey.
you could have said he was a strawberry blond... they are more acceptable manc!!
"Strawberry blond" is one of those phrases like "curvy". It's a denial of self-evident reality and thus I do not use it! Hell, gingers don't put me off, although being a member of the royal family rather does.
You obviously shut your eyes when you get on closer terms with Gingers? Or put it this way I would and ashamedly have!
Anyway I prefer strawberry blonds to gingers.
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