Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club,
whose past members include David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris
Johnson, is said to have a distinctly tasteless initiation ceremony at
present.
An Oxford stalwart claims it involves burning a £50 note in front of a beggar. Rather tactless of them, just as David Cameron was putting the whole Andrew Mitchell plebgate saga behind him!
Christchurch College, Oxford. The Bullingdon Club is a university wide society with a reputation of elitism
WHAT will the news
that the Queen’s Christmas Day broadcast be filmed 3D mean for Her
Majesty’s make-up team? Sir David Attenborough, who used to produce the
Queen’s speech and has worked in 3D, assures me: ‘She will not be aware
of any difference in the filming. And the process will in no way be any
more harsh on her face or anything like that.’ Delicately put!
FORMERLY a notorious philanderer,
Aussie cricketer Shane Warne, now the consort of chaste actress
Elizabeth Hurley, says: ‘Good relationships don’t just happen. They take
time, trust, patience, support, understanding and getting through tough
times together with love.’ Also best avoid sending other women lurid
text messages. Warne’s ex-wife Simone divorced him after she caught the
rascal sending filthy missives to a British nurse.
WHILE
pop icon Michael Jackson was alive his pet monkey, Bubbles, pictured,
lived in style. He dined with Jackson, shared his four-poster and sipped
tea with the mayor of Osaka during a tour of Japan. Sadly he now
resides at the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, reliant on
charity. Sanctuary owner Patti Ragan says: ‘Bubbles was not provided for
in Michael Jackson’s will.’ Which, inevitably, is the subject of a
family quarrel.
CHANNEL
4’s cheeky-chappie political expert Michael Crick offers a helpful
suggestion to rehabilitate the reputation of sacked Chief Whip, Andrew
Mitchell, whose downfall began while trying to cycle through the main
gate of Downing Street. ‘I can’t help feeling his old bike would raise
an awful lot of money at a charity auction.’
WITH
UKIP enjoying new success with voters – demolishing the wishy-washy Lib
Dems – might its leader, Nigel Farage, endear himself further to true
Brits by Anglicising the pronunciation of his surname? In other words,
pronouncing it to rhyme with garage instead of barrage.
A
BIOGRAPHY of the late Athenaeum Hotel manager Sandra Bulloch recalls a
time she dined at the Piccadilly establishment with Sir Denis Thatcher,
during which the protection officer of the then Prime Ministerial
consort suspected a rubber-necking diner sat nearby was an eavesdropping
journalist. Recalled Ms Bulloch: ‘The officer came back and said Sir
Denis, who was a little hard of hearing, had been talking so loudly that
the gentleman, a hotel guest from Milwaukee, thought our table was some
form of theatre performance.’
APROPOS Ms Bulloch, and on a seasonal note, she once saw Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, very much the worse for drink, being carried shoulder-high from a nightclub in Tangiers. From her sedentary position Ms Hutton explained to disapproving onlookers: ‘Too rich to walk.’
Gobbledygook from the resident thicko
There's some pretty vile people out there. In twenty or thirty years time these cunts will be vying for some of the most powerful positions in the land. They must be stopped at all costs.