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  • The Hotel Detective and his Lover

    The Hotel Detective and his Lover

    Hotel legend Derek Picot’s novel ‘The Hotel Detective and his Lover’ is a perfect easy read for those wishing to enjoy quirky hotel land

    Derek Picot is a legend in the world of hoteliers. He has charm and a brilliant eye for detail and now he’s written a novel, The Hotel Detective and his Lover.

     

    Available on Amazon for £10.50 since the 9th August, ex head honcho at London’s sadly now under renovation Carlton Tower, Picot’s second foray into print – following on from, Hotel Reservations, which was very much a deserved hit in its own right – tells the tale of an internal detective at a fictional hotel on The Strand.

     

    Complete with characters drawn from his own real-life experiences in the industry and quite a bit of action in the suites, this is a book that is fun and it is one that makes for a perfectly delightful read. You’ll find skullduggery, deviousness and dining on its pages and you’ll marvel at a world that has sadly long since been eroded by multi-national chain blandness of Hiltons and Intercontinentals.

     

    In the days of dullness of coronavirus lockdowns, we need to remember the fun times of the past and in Picot’s work, you’ll find something refreshing. Here is a book that has, as the author’s restaurateur friend Philip Lawless commented to The Steeple Times, “had names changed to protect the innocent, yet not has lost the authenticity of something of Agatha Christie’s At Bertram’s Hotel.”

     

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    The Hotel Detective and his Lover – By Derek Picot – Hotel legend Derek Picot’s novel ‘The Hotel Detective and his Lover’ is a perfect easy read for those wishing to enjoy quirky hotel land.
    ‘The Hotel Detective and his Lover’ is set in a fictional hotel on The Strand; The Savoy, of course, is the only real hotel of any note on that street, but Picot’s creation is an utterly fascinating concoction of intrigue.
  • Mad Maxwell

    Mad Maxwell

    Ghislaine Maxwell revealed to be not only a mucky madam, but also shown as a woman whom gets mad and bangs tables

    ‘Bouncing Bob’ (AKA Robert Maxwell) was well-known for his explosive temper and now, it can be revealed his daughter inherited the very same traits.

     

    In a Bloomberg feature yesterday, it was revealed that newly unsealed documents contain evidence of her “anger [boiling] over” and her “[banging] the table in frustration” as she spoke about Virginia Giuffre. Maxwell accompanied the actions by stating:

     

    “I have been so absolutely appalled by [Giuffre’s] story and appalled by the entire characterization [sic] of it and I apologize [sic] sincerely for my banging at the table earlier. It’s borne out of years of feeling the pressure of this entire lie that she has perpetrated.”

     

    With this news, one can now understand why Jeffrey Epstein’s mucky madam is so keen to get herself a desk. Bang, bang.

     

    Epstein’s Erection

     

    Meanwhile elsewhere in Vanity Fair, another side of ‘Mad Maxwell’s’ character was revealed in an article about what she gave her then boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein for his 40th birthday.

     

    According to a report, supposed “former friend” Christopher Mason – a British transplant to New York whom seems to be the go-to-mouth on the now jailed former heiress – reported that he was commissioned to write and perform a “musical roast” at the celebration.

     

    The key details required in the ditty, according to Mason, were mention “that when Epstein was teaching at Dalton School, he was the subject of many schoolgirl crushes” and that “he had 24-hour erections.”

     

    The cringeworthy “cappella” – performed by Mason, whom was bizarrely instructed to wear Epstein’s karate uniform – went as follows:

     

        Poor Jeffrey Epstein is 40, oy vey!

     

        Life must be tough, his hair is already so gray

     

        He sure looks older, but it’s clear from his smile

     

        The older he gets, the more juvenile

     

        Ghislaine is lavishing him with her affections

     

        She claims he has 24-hour erections

     

        Sounds like he’s busy, now ain’t that berserk

     

        How does he find the time to get off to work

     

        He wakes when the cock crows while everyone slumbers

     

        He rivals Einstein when crunching those numbers

     

        He taught at Dalton: The naughty boy blushes

     

        To think of schoolgirls and all of their crushes

     

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    Virginia Giuffre took to Twitter to share her thoughts on the latest revelation about Ghislaine Maxwell getting mad.
  • Meddling MeGain

    Meddling MeGain

    With even the ‘Observer’ turning on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it is time for the meddling pair to learn the art of silence

    With even the Observer’s Catherine Bennett having turned on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex this morning, this ridiculous duo really now need to do one thing: Shut up.

     

    In her column Bennett quite sensibly remarked: “[Finding Freedom is a] book that, at a stroke, exposes the embryonic visionaries to ridicule, dismays their supporters and, as demonstrated last week, delights there enemies.”

     

    Here, indeed, is a meddling duo that have scored the biggest own goal in recent royal history and here is a couple that are now perceived to be even more ridiculous than the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. ‘MeGain’ and her drip of a husband have no sense and they employ only advisors whom pathetically pander to their ludicrous whims.

     

    Sitting in their luxurious £11.2 million Californian mansion, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s toxic war on the media has backfired. Equally, their failure to repay the £2.4 million of public money spent on Frogmore Cottage has angered many and now, again, these supposed privacy seekers have hypocritically been making yet more video missives bleating about their pathetic plight. In doing such, they achieve only one thing: Making the public like them less and less.

     

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    Meddling MeGain – With even the ‘Observer’ turning on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it is time for the meddling pair to learn the art of silence.
    Meddling MeGain – Ensconced in their Montecito mansion, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex plainly do not realise how utterly out of touch they are with the public. They would do best to avoid further publicity and jolly well learn the art of silence.
  • Ghastly Ghislaine

    Ghastly Ghislaine

    Ghastly mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell is not doing herself any favours in moaning about her new living arrangements in prison

    Ghislaine Maxwell has plainly always been a spoilt brat. Her evil conman father treated her far better than his other children and indication of his preferential treatment of this ghastly wench was provided by the fact he renamed a yacht he bought in 1987 in her honour.

     

    Now quite rightly incarcerated as she awaits trial for sex-trafficking underage girls, the mucky madam has been moaning about her prison conditions according to a report in The Indian Express.

     

    In comments yesterday, Jeffrey Epstein’s procurer’s lawyer, Christian Everdell, complained about ‘Bouncing Bob’s’ daughter having been “forced to wear special clothing” and remarked:

     

    “Ms. Maxwell is being treated worse than other similarly situated pretrial detainees, which significantly impacts her ability to prepare a defense [sic].”

     

    “[She] continues to be surveilled 24 hours a day by security cameras and by multiple prison guards. These prison guards constantly observe Ms. Maxwell and take notes on her every activity, including her phone conversations with defense [sic] counsel.”

     

    No longer able to join in with such events as the Cash & Rocket rally – which ironically was all about “[uniting] us all through female empowerment and solidarity” – Maxwell’s fall from grace is deservedly complete. What is now more important, however, is whether she’ll finally do the decent thing and turn up the heat on Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump amongst others.

     

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    Ghastly Ghislaine – Ghislaine Maxwell moans about prison conditions – Ghastly mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell is not doing herself any favours in moaning about her new living arrangements in prison.
    Ghastly Ghislaine – Robert Maxwell purchased the boat he named in his daughter’s honour from Emad Khashoggi. He fell off the back of the ‘Lady Ghislaine’ and drowned – if standard reporting is to be believed – on 5th November 1991. The gin palace is now named the ‘Dancing Hare’ and sleeps upto 12 guests with a crew of 13.
  • Rich Covidiot Superspreaders

    Rich Covidiot Superspreaders

    As the ‘silly season’ begins, the überwealthy are getting out-of-hand in terms of behaving ridiculously; rich covidiots must learn to behave suggests Matthew Steeples

    Whilst ordinary people have been slated for mass gatherings in bars in Brighton and on beaches in Bournemouth, it seems the rich are taking lockdown lunacy to new levels.

     

    This morning, the Guardian reported on “mass parties erupting” at mansions in Beverly Crest and on Mulholland Drive in California – a state where over 9,800 people have died of coronavirus. Speaking to the paper, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti remarked of the rich covidiots: “These large houses parties have essentially become nightclubs in the hills” and before rightly announcing he would cut off services to stop these “superspreader” events.

     

    Further backing this up yesterday, Vanity Fair’s Stephanie Krikorian penned an article about “bidding wars” and “tears” in the Hamptons as a result of rich covidiots fighting it out over “quarantine mansions.”

     

    Krikorian reported on the “überwealthy” hiring nightclub bouncers there to “prevent others from using their roads” to “protect residents’ health” and “compounding” – “buying two and even three seven- and eight-figure homes on the same street, grabbing up surrounding acres for family members” – to avoid others.

     

    As coronavirus continues to affect us all, the wealthy are behaving  like petulant children in Britain also. With hedge fund managers and social media influencers taking over the affluent parts of the coastlines of Cornwall, Norfolk and Suffolk in England, we are starting to see the divide between the haves and the have nots grow here also. They are buying up the contents of shops, lauding it over locals and their behaviour has most definitely not been welcomed.

     

    As P. J. O’Rourke once said: “The world is being run by irresponsible brats” and plainly this is sadly currently true both in Britain and America. Our respective ships of fools are out of control and it is now time we all learnt something else: Simple common sense and to behave with respect and decency. If these people don’t, as well as a second spike, another occurrence will arrive for the covidiot wealthy: The second coming of what very deservedly happened to Marie Antoinette.

     

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  • MeGain’s Media Muckup

    MeGain’s Media Muckup

    The Duchess of Sussex has well and truly failed in her attempt to manipulate both the media and the public; Prince Charles must now intervene

    The overindulged Duchess of Sussex has well and truly morphed into ‘The Modern Day Mrs Simpson’ whilst her husband Prince Harry has simply become a drip.

     

    The couple’s attempt to share their take on the fallout of their move to America is fast falling apart and with each and every revelation from Finding Freedom, all we learn is that this dreadful duo are nothing but spoilt attention seekers.

     

    When Dominic Lawson suggested the monarchy remains a “rule of one” this morning, he was quite right and now is the time for someone else to step in: Prince Charles must tell his wayward son to man up and he must tell the mendacious Z-list actress to stop her media meddling.

     

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  • Finding Attention (MeGain Style)

    Finding Attention (MeGain Style)

    Most commentators have missed the point about the Duchess of Sussex suggests Matthew Steeples; she has a single thing on her agenda and that is getting attention

    The former Miss Markle turned now former senior royal may claim to have not cooperated with the authors of Finding Freedom, but frankly that is plainly as likely as Donald Trump taking a break from Twitter.

     

    Just as Jo Moore used 7/11 to “bury bad news,” the petulant prat that is ‘MeGain’ has a single agenda and that is being the centre of attention. That news is spinning out that the one-time Z-list actress supposedly wasn’t “welcomed” and “didn’t have a support network,” in fact, just simply does not ring true.

     

    With such people as the former ambassador Fiona Mcilwham – a woman once described as “the safest pair of hands you can get” – assisting her and the luxury of Frogmore Cottage as a home, here was a woman who wasn’t exactly forced to live in squalor and here was someone whom had access to plenty of good advice.

     

    The simple fact of the matter is this: The grasping Duchess of Sussex was determined to ‘grab’ a royal when she came to England and then she was disappointed when it didn’t turn out to be as exciting as she thought it would be. She then went to America ludicrously expecting to again ‘triumph’ as an actress and harvest millions as a public speaker. Coronavirus got in the way, so now she is leaking her fury through Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. She might well think this is a good idea, but most would say she’d simply do better to give up and go away.

     

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    Finding Attention (MeGain Style) – MeGain seeks yet more attention – Most commentators have missed the point about the Duchess of Sussex suggests Matthew Steeples; she has a single thing on her agenda and that is getting attention.
    The Duchess of Sussex and the Duke of York are frankly both utter embarrassments to the royal family. Prince Harry, meanwhile, now just appears to be a total drip.
  • Fergie Does Porridge

    Fergie Does Porridge

    As the Duchess of York makes a fool of herself retching over a bowl of porridge in a blonde wig, one has to question why nobody reins this imbecile in; Fergie should ideally learn the art of silence

    Described subsequently on Twitter as “looking like she is one of those trips that can only really be facilitated by ketamine and a large amount of rum,” the Duchess of York has again made an utter prat of herself on her Fergie & Friends YouTube channel.

     

    Dressed in a blonde wig as Goldilocks, the former royal was videoed prancing around and retching over a bowl of porridge. Aside from the fact that she plainly missed the irony that her former husband’s ex-bestie Ghislaine Maxwell is currently “doing porridge,” Sarah Ferguson clearly has not learned a single thing from the Duke of York’s disastrous car crash interview with Emily Maitlis.

     

    Whilst Prince Andrew should finally focus on doing the decent thing and going off to be interviewed by the FBI instead, his simpleton wife should do something else: Zip it.

     

    Pictured top: Sarah Ferguson – an extremely stupid woman whom took £15,000 to pay off debts from the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – retching over a bowl of porridge and being chased around the garden of the Berkshire home she shares with her ex-husband.

     

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    Fergie Does Porridge – Duchess of York makes a fool of herself again – As the Duchess of York makes a fool of herself retching over a bowl of porridge in a blonde wig, one has to question why nobody reins this imbecile in; Fergie should ideally learn the art of silence.
    Twitter users unsurprisingly reacted to the Duchess of York’s antics with mocking comments.
    Fergie Does Porridge – Duchess of York makes a fool of herself again – As the Duchess of York makes a fool of herself retching over a bowl of porridge in a blonde wig, one has to question why nobody reins this imbecile in; Fergie should ideally learn the art of silence.
    Another suggested the Duchess of York to be a female narcissist.
  • Wally of the Week – Dame Vivienne Westwood

    Wally of the Week – Dame Vivienne Westwood

    Fruitcake Dame Vivienne Westwood behaves as normal during a BBC News interview and declares the media “morons”

    Dame Vivienne Westwood is certainly predictable. Appearing on BBC News this morning to discuss why she’d chained herself up in a metal structure outside the Old Bailey, this crazy crackpot told Victoria Derbyshire that the media were “morons.” She then banged on about how Julian Assange was “locked in a concrete cage.”

     

    “I am Julian Assange” added this bizarre woman and when asked about why Wikileaks had endangered lives by publishing sensitive documents, she launched into a further rant.

     

    Dame Vivienne Westwood – whom was turfed out of the Green Party over her decision to base her companies in the tax haven that is Luxembourg – should now do something else: Learn the art of silence.

     

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  • Taking Down Randy Andy

    Taking Down Randy Andy

    As Richard Kay declares that “Prince Andrew’s fall is now complete and Virginia Giuffre demands he be “taken down,” it is time the randy non-sweater answered the FBI’s questions

    Whilst the Daily Mail’s Richard Kay declared “Prince Andrew’s fall is now complete” and added: “The Duke of York is so diminished he dare not even be seen giving his own daughter away” this morning, alleged victim Virginia Giuffre went one step further yesterday and took to social media express her thoughts.

     

    In a tweet on Friday about ‘Randy Andy,’ she announced:

     

    “#PrinceAndrew needs no protection from his Queen mom or anyone. Where was my protection when @RoyalFamily your son was having young girls passed his way from a known trafficker & pedophile at his disposal. How many of us made it out? #TakeDownPrinceAndrew #ChildTrafficking #Help”

     

    Miss Giuffre, indeed, has a point and if the former senior royal wishes to clear up matters, he needs to do the decent thing: Go and talk to the FBI.

     

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