Pete Docherty arrested in connection with drugs? Really?!
March 23, 2010
Peter (With the ‘r’ as he now insists) Docherty has been arrested again in connection with selling or giving illegal substances to the now deceased heiress Robin Whitehead.
There were two others questioned in connection with these charges, but it’s little surprise that Docherty has been arrested about illegal drug use and possession yet again. The only thing I don’t understand is how the police still don’t actually give him a proper sentence. He obviously isn’t learning his lesson, and it is giving young people the message that ‘Having, selling and taking drugs is cool. You might get arrested but, hey, never mind, you’ll not be convicted, nor prevented from taking them again.’
When people as famous as David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dog and Queen Latifah have all been arrested for drugs possession and NOT ONE of them has had to serve time, it just makes you think. It’s no wonder knife crime, thievery and childhood violence is on the up. They all think there are no repercussions to living ‘da gansta life’.
At least I’m not bitter.
A British Ex Pat officially recognised as world’s first genderless person
March 22, 2010
Norrie May-Welby claims to have no gender and is thought to be the first person in the world to be officially recognised as neither male nor female.
Norrie says that
“The concepts of man or woman don’t fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification.”
Norrie, 48, was born a man, and had a sex change operation in 1990, at the age of 28. Norrie was unhappy as a woman, and preferred not to take any hormone supplements, allowing the body to “develop naturally” in a neuter state.
The Australian government (Norrie moved there many years ago) issued an identity certificate with ‘Gender Not Specified” after years of Norrie’s not feeling comfortable with either male or female labels.
Mixed reviews for Lloyd Webber’s Phantom sequel
March 15, 2010
Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera has received mixed reviews from critics this week. While some have given it a whopping five out of five stars, others have condemned it to only one or two.
It has been described as superb, “his finest show since the original Phantom” with good singing and actors’ performances. Many critics who gave the show poor reviews for plot, substance and believability said the set and special effects “cannot be faulted” and that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score is wonderful.
The plot has been criticised as having “bizarre mechanics” and as being implausible, and the play has been called “Paint Never Dries” by one harsh critic.
One critic says:
“This Phantom is not the phantom we knew. The “poisoned gargoyle who burns in hell” has clearly taken an anger management course in New York… Where’s the menace, the horror, the psychological darkness?”
I think the moral is that we’re going to have to go and see it to make up our minds, as it looks like the jury’s out on this one.
Political Party Leaders agree on TV debate rules
March 7, 2010
The leaders of the three main political parties – Labour, The Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats – will have live discussions on BBC, ITV and Sky News. The shows will be in front of studio audiences, who are able to put questions to the three politicians directly. Viewers are invited to submit questions by email prior to the show.
Each show will have half of the time open to questions, with the other half on a pre-determined theme. After drawing lots to determine the order, Nick Clegg (Lib Dem) will open the first debate, Gordon Brown (Labour: Prime Minister) will open the second and David Cameron (conservatives) the third.
The first debate is themed on Domestic Affairs and will be screened on ITV1.
The second debate will be screened on Sky news and will be on International Affairs.
The final debate will be on the theme of Economic Affairs and will be screened on BBC1.
The time and date of debates are to be confirmed.
Tributes paid to TV Presenter
March 3, 2010
Tributes were paid yesterday to the ‘well loved’ TV presenter Kristian Digby, who was found dead in his East London flat on Monday morning.
His death has been announced as ‘unexplained’ after ambulance crews pronounced him dead at the scene at 0745 GMT on Monday 1st March 2010.
Mr Digby, 32, worked on a number of property shows, including, To Buy or Not To Buy and Buy It, Sell It, Bank It. He also worked as a film producer, having studied Film, Video and Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster.
His colleague, Dominic Littlewood, said “There’s not a bad word I can say about Kristian. He was a lovely, fun, nice, jolly, decent person.”
Tributes like this have been coming thick and fast, and are raising more questions as to the cause of his death.
