Prompted by one of my blogees’ comments below, I feel prompted to say something about the Daily Mail and its expose of Lord Browne, the CEO of BP. Said scandal is that this confirmed bachelor it seems has been having a romantic relationship with a younger MAN (yes man!) who not only is a homo but who used to be a male prostitute!

I found out about this as Malaysia Airlines only had copies of the Daily Mail as I left KL the other day. Why do airlines always give out the Daily Fucking Mail? I loathe the Daily Mail with a passion that cannot be expressed in polite fucking words. If you read the Daily Mail, stop reading this right now; you’re not welcome in here. What I loathe so much about it is the way that it pretends to be the voice of reason, whilst actually presenting the world with hatred and peevishness to an Olympic standard. Having ruined at talented and decent man’s career, they are keen to point out that they did this to expose his poor judgement in remaining silent (lest he become the victim of blackmail). It’s nothing to do with homophobia really. Or so they, most unconvincingly, say.

Now if I were a shareholder in BP, I would be most keen that my Gaylord chief executive should keep his private life private. Being an oil company necessarily involves dealing with some pretty unpleasant people: the tyrants that run Saudi Arabia; the Iranians, Hugo Chavez; George W Bush. None of these symbols of backwardness and intolerance are likely to react well to not being able to choose to avoid the fact that they know their joint venture partner to be an uphill gardener. If I were a shareholder in BP, I’d like to keep my CEO and I’d recognise the need for him to keep quiet. Whether he keeps silent by keeping his mouth actually shut or just unable to speak because it’s full of rent boy cock, I couldn’t care less as long as he keeps schtum.

By exposing this hypocrisy, the Daily Mail has done immense damage to a man and the sheer duplicity in peddling this kind of self-righteous peevish, small minded homophobia as something honourable makes me hate them all the more. I’d rather have Ahmadinejad, the Pope or the House of Saud. They may be hateful bigots, but at least they have the courage to express their true opinions.