HOME from a night out in the London, in the company of Prince William. Having missed the night bus, been robbed and sexually assaulted by a minicab driver, and ignored by the Cabbie, Wills is making do with a limousine. Wills gazes from the window. He breathes on the glass and writes with a strident digit: “Wills Luvs Katie.” He breathes again: “Wills 4 Kate.” He sighs. He can have any woman in the world (including some family members) and he has Katie Middle-class. “Lucky me,” he thinks. “Luckeee luckeeee, luckeeeeee, luckeeeeeeeee, luckeeeeee me.” What ho? Wills sees a Peugeot crushed by accident. He orders the car to...

MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann THIS IS TAMWORTH: “Chase artist’s postage stamp portraits in museum display” AN EXHIBITION of postage stamp portraits, created by renowned Hednesford artist Pete Mason, is on display at the Museum of Cannock Chase. A wrote a letter to the papers, they printed it on Anorak… The painter and illustrator is displaying his works, including pictures containing 2500 stamps up to 20,000 stamps, until November 14. At 32p a stamp, it’s an expensive hobby… The exhibition, entitled Post Pop Art Too! includes Whaam!, a tribute to Roy Lichtenstein, and a further tribute to the abstract artist Bridget Riley, as well as portraits of Simon Cowell, Princess Diana, Winston...

BARACK is Princess Diana. And you know what happened to her… The ascension of Barack Obama has laid bare the stunning extent of our own softening, the distance we’ve traveled from the people we once were. It’s the Barack Obama death cult… (Image: Beau Bo D’Or) Princess Diana On A Horse And The Elephant In The Room The Obama...

SAYS Volkswagen spokesman Peter Thul on the death of Jorg Haider (aka Joerge Haider): “Many things bring to mind Lady Diana’s death.” First of all , she was a Princess - the Peoples’ Princess; a Princess of Hearts; Our Lady Of the Immaculate Handbag. Indeed, at the time of his car crash Haider was rumoured to be romancing a Muslim man in his thirties, the son of an immigrant shop worker. Also: Haider was blonde and blue eyed He adored dogs He advanced Diana’ work on landmines by suggesting mine for blacks, Muslims and Jews that could be activated by the size of a man’s nose He had impeccable table manners He was listening to The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society on the car radio He had a morbid dread of stairs He once danced with John...

From The TimesDecember 27, 2007'I appreciate your gift more than I can say'Thank-you letters: the last bastion in an epidemic of discourtesy? They certainly make a big differenceby Valerie GroveHave you written your thank-you letters yet? Mother’s words continue to dog most of us for life. They hover like a black cloud over the season of festive giving and partying. We all vaguely expect a letter of thanks, but find them a crashing bore to write. Thanks sent immediately are thanks redoubled, we were told. “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks” – Saint Ambrose.The thank-you letter is a last bastion in what Mary Killen (The Spectator’s witty social problem-solver) has called an “epidemic of discourtesy”. The postal strike this year did its best to kill off the...

IT’S just 71 days to go to Christmas and the tabloids finally have their first Christmas lights story. Anorak’s man at the Mirror says: “Things were getting proper dicey. We had an Our Maddie story on standby, a feature on what Our Diana would have done to help should she ever deign to emerge from her department in Harvey Nichols, and there was the story of how Our Gordon Brown is to duet with Howard on the Halifax ads, so we were covered for a few weeks. “But still, squeaky bum time.” But lo, the lights come on. And dressed in sunglasses, the Mirror heads to Coleford, Gloucestershire, to see the bulbs of wonder. “I think it’s a wonderful idea,” says “mum” Lynne Munch in “CHRISTMAS CRACKERS”. Says Becky Brock: “It’s has gone too far when even my seven-year-old...

SARAH Palin is related to Princess Diana. Will Diana endorse Palin and be the October Surprise? Will Diana forgive Palin for that fateful night; or will she thank her for making good her removal to the fabled Sixth Floor of Harvey Nichols? Princess Diana’s Engagement Blouse And Wedding Knickers For Sale Princess Diana’s Old Banger Sarah Palin Does...

SARAH Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana, says the Daily Mail. Palin and the sole inhabitant of the fabled Six Floor of Harvey Nichols are princess are tenth cousins. Anorak suspected as much when Palin began to talk through her fringe and when confronted with tough question cocked her head and looked cute. So how similar are they? <!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Verdana; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1593833729 1073750107 16 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt;...

Far be it from me to promote any of the inferior books about Britain that are competing with mine in the overcrowded Christmas market, but I could not help but notice Quentin Letts’s rather confused treatise on Britain, which was extracted in the Daily Mail. One may expect a right wing columnist with a poncy name like Quentin and a tin-hatted BBC persecution complex to come out with the usual old nonsense, but he actually makes some interesting choices in his list of people who have ‘ruined Britain’. Obviously, people like Charles Saatchi are in there, for encouraging modern art and Sir Denys Lasdun for encouraging modern architecture (Conservatives HATE modern architecture, as a rule, which is why we still build pseudo Georgian-Victorian-Edwardian guff in the suburbs),...

PRINCESS Diana’s “engagement blouse” is to go under the hammer. Not literally, although sending shards of the fabric to all corners of the world would surely be a gesture of great spiritual meaning. For such reasons, a miniature of the Diana wedding dress made from the greater wedding dress material is to also up for sale. More miniatures may be in the offing. The Telegraph says the engagement blouse is being put up for sale by Elizabeth Emanuel, who tells us: “It is sad, especially for me, but I don’t know what to do with them … There comes a point where it is so expensive to store.” Yes, what with property prices so high in London, the space occupied by a blouse can go for as much £3million to £4million. Diana fans may care to note that other items...

IT’S her. It’s Princess Diana on the front-page of the Express. Today Diana is wearing a pearl chocker, pearl earrings and a lilac collar. This is Diana’s letter-writing outfit du jour. And the Express has peeked at her “revealing letters to nanny”. “HOW DIANA CONFESSED IN LETTERS: WHEN I DANCE I LOOK LIKE AN ELEPHANT.” Is that an elephant dancing, or just an elephant in a sequined dress and heels? And when did Diana see either vision, at a party, perhaps, for Prince Edward’s 21st? Nanny is Mary Clarke, who is selling off her Diana Letters to the highest bidder. The letters are nothing short of sensational. “My love of my life is dancing, things like tap, modern, ballet and jazz.” This confession was written when Diana was a callow 17, and had not yet been exposed to...

Harry Potter author JK Rowling (pictured above) has given a £1million donation to New Labour, the party announced on the first day of its annual conference. The donation from the multi-millionaire writer is a “major boost” to the cash-strapped party and to the beleaguered UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Rowling, whose personal fortune is estimated at £560 million, is known to be a close friend of Brown and his wife Sarah. Brown said: “I am delighted that JK Rowling, who is one of the world’s greatest ever authors (!?) , has made such a generous donation. I thank her for supporting the Labour party and our values of social justice and opportunity for all.” That will be a refreshing change after a week where his subsidising greedy stock market...

THE Daily Express and Sunday Express move one step closer to being written and edited by monkeys. News is that subs are being sacked in favour of a new editorial system called Woodwing. In a letter to the downtrodden, group managing editor Ian Parrott (all his own words) says the system will allow the paper to “revolutionise the way pages are written and edited and therefore reduce costs”. (Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website) He goes on to blame that ever-present excuse: my dog ate it, Miss. No, it’s the credit crunch, dummy: “This is the only way we can maintain a viable business able to cope with the problems of the national economy and the credit crunch and its continuing effect on us; the substantial drop in our advertising revenues and the continuing drop in our...

I have been tagged by Kerron to mention where I was when the following events happened.Princess Diana's death - 31 August 1997I woke up about Five AM, having noticed a downstairs light was on. I then heard my Mum walking up the stairs and she seemed to be crying, so I sat up and whether I asked what was wrong or she could he me moving I am not sure, but she told me that Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash.I am not a major royalist or anything like that, but I did have that almost pit-in-the-stomach feeling. It just seemed impossible, so I grabbed a dressing gown and dashed downstairs to watch the early morning news with the rest of my family. The shock quickly turned to anger at what soon became clear, that the crash was partly due to a game of cat and mouse with the...

I noticed this at Sadie's Tavern and thought I'd have a go (having not been invited to) while I had a spare moment. So what was I doing at the key moments in human history? Or indeed the following ones?:Princess Diana's death - 31 August 1997I spent that summer working at a certain "one stop" convenience store in lovely Warsash, Hants., and this being a Sunday, I was sleeping in - prior to the early afternoon shift - when I was informed. As I was already known for producing scurrilous poetry about the Royal Family, I confess to not being able to summon up too many of the finer feelings over this particular tragedy, and as I unloaded the black-bannered newspapers early the next morning, I could feel the moralistic bandwagon gathering pace...Margaret Thatcher's resignation - 22 November...

Sorry to make my first post for a couple of weeks a meme. I was much busier than I expected last week, and with a grand prix this week my blogging activities were focussed on vee8. I’ll still be busy this week but Steven Hill has tagged me in a meme and these are quick posts to do so I may as well do it. I have to say where I was when each of these events happened. Princess Diana’s death - 31 August 1997 I was in bed. I first heard about it when my brother came into my room wanting to play the PlayStation but ended up watching the television a bit instead. At first I thought it must have been the Queen Mother who had died, and when I found out it was only Princess Diana I struggled to see what the fuss was about. Never liked her. Margaret Thatcher’s resignation - 22...

  US President George Bush has reportedly ordered that Osama Bin Laden ( of whom 2 versions appear above, but I think on balance he might consider firing his make-up artist - if he hasn’t already shot him ) should as a matter of urgency  “be captured at all costs prior to his leaving the White House” . Apparently George feels that if he can boast in future years that he “killed Saddam and captured Bin Laden”, he will have “left the world a safer place” . And in order to achieve his aim, George is said to have requested help from the UK to find Bin Laden in the border highlands of Afghanistan/Pakistan - by asking for the British Special Boat Service ( SBS ) . Yes George, that makes sense . Or at least as much sense as you’ve ever made...

Image: Beautiful South Africa! See more beautiful images HERE from TessaJoughin. Image: heliconsportponies.com….This image symbolizes: FREEDOM!! 31st May is the 151st day of the year and there are 214 days remaining…that is in the Gregorian calendar. It’s also a non-tabacco day throughout the world. On Yahoo you can read about “Tougher controls including plain packaging, minimum pack sizes of 20 and a ban on the advertising of cigarette papers are all under consideration by the Department of Health (DoH)”…in the UK. Image: Yahoo image: Wikipedia BUT, this day was also a very important day for South Africa! Click HERE for the Wikipedia article….and HERE to read about the independence of South African 31st May 1961…and on THIS LINK you...

Horrific 120-Car Pileup A Sad Reminder Of Princess Diana2019s...

The verdict is in. Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed by a combination of a drunk driver, reckless pursuit by paparazzi and the lack of wearing a seatbelt. See here. There are some interesting features of this inquest that I would like to highlight. First, the absurd ramblings of Mohamed Fayed have been shown to be nothing more than accusations hurled around without any evidence. That the owner of Harrods is able to force the ‘establishment’ to hold an unbelievably expensive inquiry into the death of his son shows the power of money … that he is surrounded by people who feed his theories shows the isolation that money brings. Second, the Princess of Wales clearly did think that she was threatened … the number of times that she is recorded as saying that...

…Mo. We know what happened, you know what really happened - after all you employed him. But your retarded gobbing off and trying to prove things that even if they had actually occurred you would never have got to the bottom of has cost this nation about ten million quid. Well we’ve set up a payment plan Mo, it involves you paying over all the cash right now and then you and your bouffanted lackey buggering off to blurt your stupid rants to someone who gives a shit - apparently there’s millions. You’ve got to wonder at the 38% of people in that survey that thought it was money well spent, they should be removed from the voting register straight away and then sterilised. ShareThis...

I have to say think it's getting a bit OTT now, although it's a bit of a Catch 22 situation.That said, one Facebook group has a suggestion for Mohammed Al Fayed for after the verdict, considering he said he would abide by the Jury's decision. After all, it's not as if he is lacking in...

I didn't know whether to pity or feel angry with Al Fayed when he went into the Witness Box today and continued to make his facile allegations about what happened to his son and Princess Diana.He has brought a new twist to the tale, apparently nearly everyone was involved in this "murder"; Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Tony Blair, Robin Cook, MI6, MI5, the CIA, the then British Ambassador to Paris, her brother-in-law Sir Robert Fellowes, some of the Royal staff. Trevor Rees-Jones (the only survivor) was "turned" against him. Paul Burrell and Princess Diana's eldest sister let down her memory by not foowing "her instructions". One almost wonders if The Wombles are going to get implicated somewhere!This individual has wasted taxpayers money trying to find a truth which suits him, at the...

Have been galvanized into blogging on this by Paul Linford and apologies for the delay, but I do have a life outside the Internet ;)In short it was excellent, the production team overcame the potentially difficult task of packing in the backstory of Life On Mars and how Alex Drake went into a coma in under an hour fairly easily. The characters were well written, although (and here is my criticism) they did overplay Gene Hunt being the saviour of the moment a bit too much, especially with the use of music. That said, his opening line was just pure Gene Hunt genius.The knowingness Alex has of her situation also helps, as the production rightly assumes that we know that the 1981 she "inhabits" are full of "imaginary constructs". This makes things easier for the audience, although in...