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2011-03-09T18:45:00.000Z

Novak Djokovic

Frank Lampard

Ben Foden

Jenson Button

Xabi Alonso

Someone ^^'

Russel Tovey

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2011-02-26T17:42:00.000Z

Fifteen-year-old Kent Manning and his sister Libby, 18, with their father, after they were told there was no hope of finding their mother alive / AP

Alex O'Laughlin

2011-02-18T20:27:00.000Z

Hellraiser

2011-02-18T19:21:00.000Z

09 Feb 2009 - Chinese New Year.
The Mandarin Hotel caught fire two months before completion after some unauthorised fireworks were carried on by the next-door Central Chinese TV headquarters (huge weird shaped cubic building on the picture).
Some fireworks landed on the roof of the hotel and the fire enfulfed the whole building in less than 15 minutes. As the fire spread, the authority tried to apply censorship but it didn't stop foreigners and locals from recording footages and taking pictures.
The whole affair became a running joke as "The CCTV caused the major event of the year and failed to cover it!"

Florence and the Machine

2011-02-17T19:16:00.000Z

Kurt Wild

2011-02-14T18:38:00.000Z

Parler franglais?

2011-02-12T22:19:00.000Z

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That's pretty much what my youngest pupils sound like when they speak French. So cute! ^^

Love! Love! Love!

2011-02-10T15:46:00.001Z

Sébastien Mercier

2011-02-09T21:30:00.000Z

Another one who thinks he's Alain Delon...good, I'll have him then! ^^

Acid Survivors Foundation

2011-02-08T17:46:00.001Z

I can't remember the exact date that my family and I were attacked, but it was during Ramadan in 2001. It was around midnight. My husband and I were asleep together with our two children. My youngest child, Sonali, was just 18 days old.

We woke up screaming and shouting. Sonali was screaming too. We were all in excruciating pain and all severely burnt.

Hearing our screams, our neighbours came to the house but nobody knew how to help. We now know we should have bathed in water to wash the acid off our skin but at the time we thought water would increase the pain.

At one point Sonali stopped making any sound and we feared she was dead. I could see that her face was totally burnt. Fortunately the rest of her body was completely wrapped up as it was winter - so her body was protected.

We were taken to a hospital nearby, from where we were transferred straight away to Khulna hospital. We were only there a day. We were in such a critical state doctors feared they would not be able to save us so they took us to Dhaka, where we spent nine months in hospital. The Acid Survivors Foundation paid for all the costs.

I am scarred across the right side of my face. I have no right ear at all and my right eye has been destroyed too. I have lost both sight and hearing on the right side, and recently my ear has started bleeding. My husband was burned on both his shoulders and legs.

The attack was devastating, and today we lead a totally different life to the one we had before the attack. It is difficult for us to be in sunlight because our bodies itch and then we scratch and bleed. Our scars make people around us uncomfortable.

It was all about land. My husband stands to inherit the land on which we live when his father dies. But my husband's uncle believes the land should be his. Relations between my husband and his uncle were poor before the attack, but we had no idea this man was prepared to sneak up on us and try to murder his nephew.

My husband knows that the acid was intended for him alone and it's hard for him to accept that Sonali and I were caught up in this. Sometimes I catch him looking at Sonali, and I know it causes him unbelievable pain that we were victims too.

We are really scared for Sonali's future. In Bangladesh beauty is important, especially when it comes to marriage. Since Sonali is not pretty we will need to pay a large dowry to marry her off, and we have little money.

© Simon Rawles

Support the ASF: http://www.acidsurvivors.org/

Diving is a fascinating sport...on slow motion ^^

2011-02-08T12:33:00.001Z

No matter how pink they want it to look like, blue still draws to dark..

2011-02-07T07:54:00.000Z

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: David Cameron's message is that Muslims are not wanted

Muslims and migrants are being used to distract people from the planned chaos implemented by this unpopular coalition. It is politicking of the worst kind

The Indenpendent – Monday, 7 Feb 20011

Not many dawns have passed since the sparky Tory chairwoman Sayeeda Warsi spoke up about the "dinner table" libelling of all Muslims, now routine, normalised, unremarkable, intimate, uncontested. I see and hear it, too – prejudices passed around with the balsamic vinegar or ketchup. Some Muslims deserve castigation and worse for the terrible things they do. I frequently denounce them in my columns. But sweeping, indiscriminate execration of any collective is abhorrent and must be confronted. Warsi did that, knowing her words would infuriate right-wing Tories who can't stand the brown little upstart.

Now, how will she react to her leader, who has amplified the small talk of bigotry and boomed it through a megaphone, perhaps to slap her down? I found Cameron's speech in Munich indefensible even though I completely agree with some observations and policy ideas. We discussed these two years back when we met in his office for over an hour. Self-exclusion, special pleading, women's rights, community oppression, anti-democratic attitudes, terrorism, the spread of Wahhabi Islam are serious problems and growing. Laissez-faire multicultural policies do not serve our times. State institutions should fund shared spaces, crossover ideas, openness and modernity. Many of us Muslims would be with David Cameron if his speech hadn't shown him to be selective, hypocritical, calculating, woefully indifferent to Muslim victims of relentless racism and chauvinism. He was speaking the words of white extremists but in posh. There was so much that was objectionable – where he spoke, what he said, the timing, the purposes loitering behind the fine façade of his personality.

By speaking out in Munich he allied himself with the ghastly Angela Merkel who delivered a similarly provocative sermon last autumn. Racism is rife in both countries; in both nations, millions of their own natives rigidly hold on to their languages and cultures. Think of those Germans who go abroad on holiday and stay in walled-off camps where only German is spoken. Countless Britons are similarly against integration with the people of unfamiliar countries they visit or migrate to. I would rather have my tongue chopped off than lose my mellifluous home languages. To learn and love English shouldn't mean the destruction of world languages, most of which we are lucky enough to have on our isles.

Remember the PM was at an international security council when he let rip – an outrage. Diversity is one of our greatest assets, an antidote to militancy not its cause. A new study by the Runnymede Trust in Birmingham shows young citizens are more bonded and at ease with difference than their elders in that multifarious city. As the speech progressed, you realised that Cameron's problem isn't cultural difference. It's the people whom marauding Christian Crusaders called "curs", wretched Mohammedans. Cameron isn't troubled by Hassidic enclaves, Orthodox Jewish dress codes, or their religiously sanctioned gender inequality and stubborn self-removal from mainstream societies. I have been rebuffed by a veiled Muslim woman and a Hassidic Jewish one when I tried to talk to their children. And the other day a young white mum told her daughter to come away from me, the "Paki". Moreover, those who only want to live with their own in white heartlands are thought to be no threat to integration – they are only doing what comes naturally. Little official concern is expressed about crimes committed by various non-Muslim ethnic groups against each other, against Muslims or white Britons. Even more disgracefully, Tories ignore racists who terrorise people of colour. How unfair is that?

Our PM, in effect, identified himself with the abominable English Defence League when he spoke up a day before the league marched through Luton shouting abuse. Are these the laudable British values we must embrace? Hot-headed Muslims will be even more convinced they are not wanted in the land of their birth.

The next charge: hypocrisy. This Government is enthusiastically funding schools for separatists – from snooty white middle-classes, to pedantic, purist Hindus, nutty, evangelical Christians, and introverted, uncompromising Muslims. How does that foster integration? Michael Gove has just been accused by Bradford City Council of encouraging segregation by funding a new free school started up by Ayub Ismail, who wants to ensure his pupils are not "absorbed into the dominant culture". Saudis are allowed by our Government to brainwash Muslims who are then despised. The Tory party's right and left buttocks move in different directions. Not clever nor consistent with the PM's Big Message of the week.

So why is he doing it? When politicians are in trouble they pick on "outsiders", put them into stocks so the people can turn on them and relieve their feelings of frustration. Andrew Lansley, now in charge of health, said shamelessly in 1995 that they were using the anti-immigration card because it played well with voters. Recently he blamed migrants for a rise in TB in Britain, a link that used healthcare concerns to whip up xenophobic panic. Cameron himself designed the disgraceful anti-refugee campaign for Michael Howard in 2005.

The German Marshall Fund has just published a comparative survey of attitudes to migrants in Western countries. Britons, noted The Economist, are shown up as a "mean-minded lot" – negative, hostile, paranoid. I don't believe that is the full picture. Britain is also uniquely receptive – which is why so many of us would not live elsewhere. But it is going through a seriously bad mood and Cameron is exploiting that.

I accept our citizens are unnerved by those British Muslims who make endless demands, are full of wrath and murderous plans, or choose ghettoisation. However, the widespread national unhappiness is created by policies pushed through by this Government. Muslims and migrants are being used to distract people from the planned chaos implemented by this unpopular coalition. It is politicking of the worst kind. Which is why it must be opposed vehemently. As the daughter of a survivor said to me at the Holocaust Memorial Day in January: "We Jews must look to our failings and crimes. But when outsiders try to use that for their devilish reasons, we know where we must stand." Me too.

Novak Djokovic

2011-01-25T08:46:00.000Z

It's always been up to them, not you.

2011-01-23T16:35:00.001Z

Sharon Corr

2011-01-22T18:24:00.000Z

Philip Fusco

2011-01-22T18:20:00.001Z

The First Norn

2011-01-22T17:17:00.000Z

Urd

Pictures from the World

2011-01-22T17:09:00.002Z

A woman walks at a mass grave site at Titanyen, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Vogue caught perfection again

2011-01-19T19:53:00.000Z

There's nothing you can't do now that you're in...

2011-01-16T18:44:00.000Z

Change of direction

2011-01-15T23:04:00.002Z

I should be writting my assignments due on Tuesday about Learners Autonomy in a Modern Foreign Language class and how I would articulate my teaching in terms of What, How and Where but blêêêrrk!

So little change of mood for the blog, you might have noticed I have been posting more of things outside of my usual ranting and adonises. I've indeed decided I'm going to try to please myself a bit more. I realise I always say I don't really care if people read or not but my vanity always stops me when I want to post something I like because it might be "boring" and end up posting some bloke in his undies.

There will still be blokes in their undies but who doesn't like blokes in their undies but I will also talk about things I like to talk about as more and more people told me I was interesting when I do so. Like History.

And also I miss History. I studied it for years but because I'm in England, I don't have all my lovely books with me, and training as a Language teacher I wouldn't even have the time to read any of them.

So I'm doing my blog and stop doing what I think might be this or that.

Let's start with Lord Gaga ^^

Globalisation is nothing new

2011-01-15T22:27:00.001Z

The Hanza was a commercial then financial and more or less military alliance between cities in Northern Europe throughout all the Middle Ages.

Thanks to this very organised alliance formed by groups of cities, today still strongly attached to their independance (Bremen, Hamburg and all Flemish and Dutch cities) - Scandinavia and Russia were able to sell wood, furs, copper, gold, iron, silver, oil from whale and mercenaries to the Mediterranean world who was missing them in exhange for its wine, honey, olive oil, cereals and all the exotic goods Venitians and other powerful cities of Italy were bringing from the Middle East, Central Asia and Far East: silk, gems, dye, plants, spices...The British Isles were selling their very good quality wool from their sheeps to the Flemish cities in exchange of the best drapes, sheets, linen and clothes in Europe. The Muslim world of North Africa and Middle East would also provide ivory and other luxury goods to Europe because, like today, religion never stopped trade.

Globalisation is nothing new.

Russia was formed because Vikings were travelling allong the rivers between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea to trade with the Byzantine Empire. As the trade increased, so did the attacks on the shipments. So they build forts along the rivers where merchants could halt and find a shelter. People from Scandinavia then the lands around moved next these forts to provide the merchants with food and homes. They stayed there and started to cultivate. Forts became hamlets, then villages, then towns, then cities and the "Rus", as the Vikings called the people who were travelling East for trade, made these lands theirs...The rest is history.

There's no other place like old Europe

2011-01-09T20:36:00.000Z

Luzern, Switzerland

Adam Levine

2011-01-09T19:57:00.000Z

Hong Kong, 2005

2011-01-08T14:38:00.000Z

The pig's in heat.

2011-01-07T12:40:00.003Z

Michael Owen, far left, his pregnant wife Louise, far right; at John Terry and Toni Poole's wedding - 15.06.2007

Spot the major fail from John Terry's jacket. I can't begin to imagine the amount of sweat he produced on that day for it to soak up his shirt then his vest then go through his jacket. I mean, for crying out loud, those jackets are nowhere near thin! Nor is John Terry for that matter...

Maybe that's a sign that when you have a tendency to cheat on a weekly basis with everything that moves from Essex slags to your best friend's wife via strippers and groupies, you should not get married or you'll get nervous and will appear looking like a pig in heat in OK Mag.

I'm actually quite surprised the King of Love Rats' PR team didn't spot that and let the pictures appear in the paper. I don't what they did with the colour or the make-up but Michael's tan is horrendously bronze next to the more natural one he bears on the paps' pictures of that very day.

Thanks for his smile, though ^^

Frank Lampard

2011-01-07T11:20:00.000Z

New York, 1932

2011-01-07T10:38:00.000Z

Tom Daley

2011-01-07T10:34:00.002Z

He's 16 so I won't comment...yet ^^

Stairway to glitter

2011-01-05T11:56:00.003Z

Mirny, Russia. The diamond mine and the city.

Michael Cassidy & Adam Fleming - Part two

2010-12-28T21:31:00.001Z

Zipping out...

2010-12-28T20:55:00.000Z

Michael Cassidy & Adam Fleming - Part one

2010-12-28T19:49:00.000Z

And the winner is...

2010-12-28T13:23:00.000Z

Mrs Clinton for this comment after Khodorkosky's case outcome:

"Today's conviction ... raises serious questions about selective prosecution – and about the rule of law being overshadowed by political considerations," said the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "This and similar cases have a negative impact on Russia's reputation for fulfilling its international human rights obligations."

I don't know if Mrs Clinton has but reading the Wikileaks cables and the recent development in Assange case show that the US are nowhere near a good place to judge other countries' reputation, political considerations and human rights oligations!

Well done, though, for winning the most self-righteous, hypocritcial comment of the year! What an achievement!

Happy bunny!

2010-12-15T13:58:00.000Z

Joey Brass

2010-12-11T22:07:00.000Z

So, England lost the World Cup...again!

2010-12-05T17:38:00.001Z

I feel like reading the press in France after we lost the Olympic Games to London. That was exactly the same story of being “betrayed”, “stabbed in the back” by people who promised their votes and ended up voting for London. We had countless analysis by every journalist telling, showing us, proving us what a bunch of irrelevant, plutocrats they all were after France run a whole dossier and campaign saying we deserved the Olympic Games because we hadn’t had them for decades, that even if the Games are Greek, it’s a French man who brought them back to life. The arguments were that Paris was the most beautiful, welcoming, ready, prepared cities among all the ones in competition. That France was the most touristic country in the world so it would be anyone’s favourite place to go to for the Olympic Games: to compete or to attend.

All based on bovine, down-looking on everyone else arrogance! And that’s exactly what England did. Yes, they are all plutocratic Popes whose only concern is to enjoy finally getting a grip of power, looking down on everyone else and make more money. But nothing much different from the ones who are running the FA, openly despising every other league in the world and whose only motivation is to find new ways to conquer new markets in Asia, for instance. Remember the Premier League match abroad from Scudamore who is now lecturing the FIFA?

But I can’t believe the extends of insanity England reached to get votes: presents, free seats at the Olympic Games, free hotel rooms, free diners, free lunches…“Here’s the Queen's knicker drawers. Take whatever you want, it’s all yours!”…England went beneath itself, bending backwards, grovelling and battling eyelashes, sending David Beckham thinking the FIFA board would fall for him, his PR smile, dyed hair, scruffy looks like any other teenage girls and boys. And Prince William was very useful…very useful for the papers to say “How dare they lie to a prince?” Well England sent him there so he can kiss their bottom so I don’t think them supposedly lying (we don’t even know if it’s true) is the problem here.

England’s naivety and desperation is beyond pathetic. At no point, England looked at themselves asking any question! No we’re still saying we were the best and we deserved it because all the others were crap! It’s like looking at a 5 year-old throwing a tantrum because he was at one point promised (so HE says!) a biscuit but ended with nothing because another got it.

Sorry, we are blaming the BBC for having good, truthful journalists who did a brilliant and necessary job of investigation but dared exposing the reality of FIFA. Realities the England Bid Team were happy to ignore.

Ryan Devlin

2010-12-05T09:41:00.003Z

Good morning!

2010-12-05T09:40:00.000Z

Aw my! My hormones are going bonkers!

2010-11-19T16:27:00.000Z

Because I miss him ^^

2010-11-14T21:26:00.000Z

Morning sickness

2010-11-13T16:59:00.000Z

I had to wake up with that!

The Guardian will pay for this...

Sweet fetish

2010-11-07T10:35:00.003Z

Oh yes! ^^

2010-11-06T09:03:00.004Z

Who cares what he says when he takes his top off?! :D

I managed to make four mistakes in that little sentence. That's desperate! No more posting in the morning :D

I keep dancing on my own

2010-11-04T08:47:00.001Z

Connor Paolo

2010-10-31T20:49:00.000Z

I know the picture is like forth-hand but I'm busy and he's cuter than a kitten in Gossip Girl so here he is ^^

Simon Baker

2010-10-31T20:45:00.002Z

It's like looking at my ex-boyfriend 20 years older ^^'

Aw darling, we all love you! ^^

2010-10-31T09:54:00.001Z

Phwoar!

2010-10-26T20:34:00.000+01:00

Speechlessly in awe and love!

The most popular in the barrack

2010-10-25T11:58:00.000+01:00

The good, the bad and the ugly.

2010-10-25T11:51:00.001+01:00

    Sorry for the lack of posting. I have been horrendously busy with studying for my PGCE. I gather and gather but never go further than storing in my "Blog" file. Moreover the Internet where I live in London is crap at the moment. Hopefully, we'll get Virgin very soon and, fingers crossed, I won't need 30 minutes to read just an e-mail anymore.

    So here are a few posts. The good, the bad and the ugly. I left a lot of things out. Especially a whole feature on Stephen Ireland who's probably the most vulgar, bling bling nouveau riche I have ever seen in the history of the no-world!

    The likes who has aquariums made of cristal, huge Land Rovers with customised golden plates and pink bumbers, velvet pink and grey cushions in a big bedroom where his wife's Chihuahua is sleeping.

    Yes he's a footballer. Yes, he plays for Manchester City. Yes, he shaves his head and looks like a cock! How did you guess?

Four legs and a package

2010-10-25T11:42:00.000+01:00

And there's mud as well. Isn't it wonderful :p

Spanish dad

2010-10-25T11:39:00.001+01:00

Aw, how we love Fernando Torres on holiday with wife and daughter ^^

New look

2010-10-25T11:35:00.002+01:00

Obviosuly Andy thinks he needs to shave his legs to play tennis.

Well I think he needn't and he's really turning into something I don't like.

Marry a brainless Yankee bimbo after he saw her in a magazine was onet hing but playing bad tennis and now shaving from neck to toe...that's no no!

o_O

2010-10-25T11:32:00.000+01:00

Pull your f*cking trousers up!

2010-10-25T11:29:00.001+01:00

    Believe it or not, this is on purpose! This guy is from a boyband - yeah, I'm setting the bar quite low here. So he's from JLS: some kind of utter shite who look shite, wear shite, sing shite, talk shite and even breathe out shite! They're from X-Factor so now you know what I mean. I think they were Simon Cowell's choice which means they have the knees and the butt for everything now.

    Anyway, here he is - whatever his name is, getting our of his very expensive car looking like a perfect tart! That's fashion for you.

    One thing I have to say. The tit is wearing exactly what Beckham is wearing at premières and official galas but at least Dumb Bollocks never went all the way to think it was anywhere near...there's not even any words to describe what that guys thinks he looks like wearing his pants like that. Just to say that Dumb Bollocks might be the symbol of vulgarity and tartness but at least he knows where to stop.

    For now...

The ugly

2010-10-25T11:17:00.001+01:00

Believe me, she's real. You have no idea how many students I had when I was working in Blackpool, who came to school with the same fake tan, nails and hair.

And how many girls you see every night wearing the exact same outfit. I don't know what's worst: them thinking it's okay to look like that or the pikeys they actually attract looking like this.

It's quite sad.

2010-10-25T11:09:00.001+01:00

I can't even begin to tell how many things are wrong in this picture. Starting by the two things holding hands in the middle...

Le chic du chic

2010-10-25T11:07:00.002+01:00

He could be a footballer...

Consultation

2010-10-25T11:03:00.000+01:00

Futur simple.

2010-10-10T00:19:00.000+01:00

Va va voum! :D

2010-10-09T17:22:00.001+01:00

Love is on the sand

2010-10-03T14:52:00.003+01:00

Patriotism: Nice but tarty

2010-10-03T14:50:00.002+01:00

Outdoorsy men

2010-10-03T14:46:00.001+01:00

Arne Friedrich

2010-10-03T14:41:00.000+01:00

Martial Tricoche

2010-10-02T16:27:00.000+01:00

Up close.

2010-09-30T18:17:00.000+01:00

The time is now

2010-09-26T17:25:00.000+01:00

Brothers and Sisters, season 5, episode 1: tonight! ^^

Germany is a stable!

2010-09-26T11:16:00.001+01:00

And here's a stallion ^^

All time (and old times) favourite.

2010-09-23T19:50:00.001+01:00

Favourite Swede

2010-09-23T11:22:00.004+01:00

Tongue II

2010-09-22T19:21:00.004+01:00

Tongue ^^

2010-09-22T09:41:00.000+01:00

Propagandalicious

2010-09-21T18:22:00.001+01:00

Michael C. Hall

2010-09-20T20:05:00.000+01:00

Gasp...!

2010-09-19T11:05:00.001+01:00

The ones you have to be English to understand

2010-09-11T22:23:00.005+01:00

Or follow football but that's my geeky moment: making up fake news according to the lastests from the ballers.

"On Sunday, John Terry showed his arm-band to the fans and afterwards, in a complete unrelated incident, his penis to the baby sitter"

"It was revealed on the last England Team meeting that the doctors came up with a new test for the players. After interviewing the whole team, it turns out John Terry came first on that new Wags Penetration Index"

“In his latest interview, John Terry declared “Balancing my football career at Chelsea, travelling all the time, and being a good husband is a real struggle if I’m honest”. But he’s not, so there you go!

“The news just came that Wayne Rooney missed the last Manchester United game after he went at Rio Ferdinand’s restaurant where he ate all the pies and got stuck in the door”

“After Chelsea players took tests, it was revealed Frank Lampard has a IQ way above the average rate but, the trouble is, he doesn’t know how to use it for his brain was delivered with an instruction manual but no PA to read it through”

“After the scandals, Chelsea thought it was necessary to point out that Ashley Cole is not related in any way with Joe Cole, although he did shag his grand-ma”.

"It was revealed that today Capello agreed to allow the England players to have a night out in the nearby city during the World Cup launching the careers of dozens of local prostitutes.”

Mon papa, c'est le plus beau!

2010-09-09T08:22:00.004+01:00

Joan Smith: Hague's problem is sense, not sexuality

2010-09-05T08:43:00.003+01:00

Rumours about the Foreign Secretary's love life have circulated for years, but it is using Ffion to prop up his story that is shocking

The Independent - Sunday, 5 September 2010

First, a little history: in 1999, a Conservative MP called Shaun Woodward was one of the party's frontbench spokesmen. When his leader, William Hague, committed the Tories to opposing the abolition of Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act – a notorious piece of legislation which outlawed the "promotion of homosexuality" – Woodward refused to toe the line. Hague sacked him and Woodward defected to Labour, where he enjoyed a meteoric rise and later became a cabinet minister.

Hague was unrepentant and a few weeks later he chose the Daily Mail, the traditional defender of "family values", to underline his support for Section 28. "It prevents, mainly through deterrence, public authorities from engaging in the sort of inappropriate activity that resulted in such public disquiet in the 1980s," he wrote early in 2000. When the Labour government finally got round to repealing Section 28 in 2003, Hague (no longer Tory leader) voted to keep it.

While there are grounds for thinking that Hague is conflicted, if not confused, on the issue of gay rights his extraordinary behaviour last week, when he issued a detailed statement about his marriage in an attempt to quash rumours that he has had gay relationships, suggests he is also confused about the boundaries between public and private life.

Hague is now a cabinet minister, occupying the grand suite of offices in King Charles Street, London SW1, from which the Foreign Secretary presides over Britain's relations with the rest of the world. It's hardly as though he starts each morning with an empty diary, but four days ago one of the top items on his agenda was the delicate matter of his wife's gynaecological history.

In a spectacularly misguided attempt to counter rumours about his sexual orientation, Hague revealed that he and his wife Ffion (they married in 1997) have been trying to have children and she has suffered a series of miscarriages. One consequence was a rash of features about the misery caused by miscarriage, but the dominant reaction was bewilderment and a degree of distaste.

If Hague was, as it appeared, using intimate details of his marriage to "prove" that he wasn't gay, it didn't seem to have occurred to him that many gay men get married and have children, a circumstance confirmed last weekend by an announcement from Crispin Blunt, a ministerial colleague. The Tory MP and prisons minister announced that he had separated from his wife of 20 years, with whom he has two children, and decided to "come to terms" with his homosexuality.

Clearly, a couple's reproductive history is not definitive proof of heterosexuality, which makes Hague's decision to expose himself and his wife in this way all the more perplexing. The Conservative Party is supposed to be more tolerant and sophisticated about sexual matters than it has been in the past, a shift signalled by David Cameron's public apology last year for his party's support for Section 28.

Would it matter a jot if Hague were gay, or indeed bisexual, given that there are increasing numbers of self-identified gay MPs and ministers at Westminster? This isn't 1984, when the decision of Labour's Chris Smith to come out as the country's first openly gay MP was rightly seen as brave and ground-breaking.

In that sense, it's hard not to see the Foreign Secretary's problems as largely of his own making. Rumours about Hague's sexuality have circulated at Westminster for years, and if he was troubled by them, it was hardly sensible to share hotel rooms during the general election campaign with a handsome young aide, Chris Myers.

It was even less sensible to appoint the same young man – he is only 25, and does not have obvious qualifications for the job – to a coveted post as one of his special advisers. Last week, Myers resigned, leaving Hague to observe testily during a press conference with the German foreign minister that his former aide was "fed up with the political world – and who can blame him?"

It wasn't the only occasion in the past few days when Hague appeared not to understand how he had got himself, his wife and Myers into this unhappy situation. At the heart of the matter isn't so much a question about his sexuality – he denies being gay and no one has to date produced any evidence to the contrary – but his inconsistent attitude to homosexuality. During his campaign to become leader of the Tory party, Hague unexpectedly supported the idea of gay marriage, and in his Daily Mail article a decade ago, he said he believed that the age of consent for gay people should be 16.

But in the very same article, he made it clear that he would impose a three-line whip on Tory MPs to ensure that they supported the homophobic Section 28. The gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was sufficiently incensed to reveal that Hague had responded to a letter from the pressure group OutRage! and "refused to support gay equality" on a whole series of issues.

Hague is described on websites as voting "moderately" against equal rights for gay people. Some of his remarks last week – he described the rumours about himself and Myers as "malicious" and denied that he'd ever had an "improper" relationship with a man – suggest that his personal views on homosexuality are out of step in a world where gay couples are able to celebrate civil partnerships. When the rumours about him were at their height, he had the option of facing them down, limiting himself to an unequivocal denial and getting on with his job. Instead, he added fuel to the bonfire with a tasteless and defensive overreaction.

These days, most of us don't mind whether politicians are gay or straight, but an incontestable fact has emerged from the most catastrophic attempt at damage limitation that British politics has seen for many a year. Now we know that the person who cares most passionately about the Foreign Secretary's sexual orientation is none other than William Hague.

Speedo

2010-09-03T08:54:00.001+01:00

Vintage

2010-09-03T07:51:00.000+01:00

Snow in New Orleans.

William Hague

2010-09-02T08:42:00.001+01:00

Hague is fag! Hague is a fag! Hague is fag! Hague is a fag! Hague is a fag!!

Deny that, you pillock! ¬¬

Pillars

2010-09-01T10:44:00.009+01:00

I realised something: being attracted to legs is not just something straight guys do. I'm gay and I'm all about legs! I don't what it is but perfect long legs just drive me bonkers!

Let's see some examples of what's wrong and what's good.

These are legs with underdevelopped calves. This is horrendous! Especially with things like Beckham because he has thighs like every footballer: big but little calves. That's what we call "chicken legs". The top is big but the bottom isn't and the ankles are far too thin. Irk!

Michael Owen: These are perfect calves. There is continuity, homogeneity throughout the whole legs. Michael's shorter than average which could have easily made his legs for too big for his body but...he's perfect! :D

Which brings me to the whole legs themselves:

Cristiano Ronaldo: Horror!

Yes, the thighs aren't too big-ish ¬¬ That's why I like footballers or tennismen and not bikers. The bikers have really big thighs while football and tennis tend to work on the leg altogether.

But two things: the veins! That's awful. A little is alright when you barely see them but here it just looks like he's got worms stuck in all of them. And he shaves. Never shave the legs! Never. Ever. Ever! So yes! No swimmers either :-/

The two cases of perfect legs:

Frank Lampard: Strong, hairy (yes yes ^^), perfectly proportionned legs.

And he likes to show them ^^

Steven Gerrard: The case of tall legs. Same as Lampard, very masculine legs, but because they are long, everything is stretched beautifully without making them too thin.

We can see the veins but it's because there's not a single once of fat on Steven Gerrard, not because he caught some whatever tropical disease ^^'

Hello. May I...like...lick you?

2010-08-30T19:56:00.002+01:00

Pointy temperature

2010-08-30T09:08:00.000+01:00

Duncan James

Catching up

2010-08-29T18:28:00.008+01:00

Yes, massive posting today.

Actually, there’s a reason for it. I’m on holiday so I actually have time to post because it does take some time actually. When I browse the Internet and find I like I usually save in my files on one of my two external disks. Then take ages to find it back :p

But I still haven’t quite got used to Windows Vista and there’s a massive difference between Windows XP's Internet Explorer and the one with Windows Vista: the XP IE remembers where you save things from windows to windows and day to day, not Vista.

So very often, I am browsing, see something I like, open it in a new window to just save it without having to go back pages to what I was doing, forget I’m with Vista (because I set it so it looks exactly like classic Windows 95/98) and save it in “Images”, where Vista redirects you every bloody time you change ways.

So I always have hundreds if not thousands of unsorted files, pictures and I got fed up with having them hanging there so I decided to sort them out once a week and here is everything I mean to post on a daily basis ^^

And we are ending this massive posting with a reminder of few of some almighty rules:

Xabi Alonso and Michael Owen are perfect husband materials ^^

Sticks and rounds that mean the world

2010-08-29T18:12:00.002+01:00

Have you seen that car?

2010-08-29T18:09:00.004+01:00

Joe Hart's arse knows how to please his fans.

Aitor Oico

2010-08-29T18:06:00.003+01:00

Tomasz Schafernaker

2010-08-29T18:04:00.004+01:00

This guys is BBC's weatherman, yes yes! He's always in a suit so nobody really realised until that cover.

Ja?

2010-08-29T17:57:00.005+01:00

Aw yes! I forgot to mention I've been having the most insane crush on Nick Clegg for the past six months! It's not so much sexual as it is that he's a very well-educated man who can speak five languages fluently (among other things). So I don't care what he thinks or does now, I still want to put my head on his bosom in front of a fireplace and listen to him for hours.

And those hands...^^

French balls

2010-08-29T17:51:00.002+01:00

Tennis player Arnaud Clément.

I thought he was dead...

2010-08-29T17:49:00.002+01:00

...but I'm happy James Van der Beek is not ^^

Teenage crush

2010-08-29T17:42:00.000+01:00

Footwear and none-wear

2010-08-29T17:37:00.005+01:00

Darling, what the hell happened with those shoes?

But I like what they are wearing ^^

Dawn

2010-08-29T13:37:00.003+01:00

A bit scruffy.

2010-08-29T11:40:00.003+01:00

Luke Guldan is doing a Sandrine Trop Forte

2010-08-27T12:45:00.002+01:00

[FUNNY] Sandrine trop Forte & Richard Jouir [Goodspeed]
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Jeepers creepers, there's an another one!

2010-08-25T20:48:00.004+01:00

Robin Scholtz singt Richard Wagners Stimme des Walvogels.