Rudeness at Someone Else's Wedding Is Worse Than Segregated Seating

Spectator, The; London (August 22, 2009)

Author: Rifkind, Hugo

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Slapping themselves on the chest afterwards, no doubt, and shouting 'hoorah!' like Marines. Because they're bigger than us. Because they think they can. Diplomatic immunity might make it easy to avoid parking fines, but nothing makes you immune from having to collect your car from a nocturnal facility outside a business park in the arse end of Epping.

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Rudeness at Someone Else's Wedding Is Worse Than Segregated Seating

Is it possible for Jim Fitzpatrick, the Labour MP for Poplar and Canning Town, who so recently stormed out of a segregated wedding, to wear underpants? I don't see that it is. I can't see how he'd get hold of them.

Imagine going with him to a shop. He and his wife Sheila seem pretty inseparable, so she'd prob...

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