Tag: London

  • The Rt. Hon. Theresa Villiers MP (AKA ‘The Telegraph Crow’)

    The Rt. Hon. Theresa Villiers MP (AKA ‘The Telegraph Crow’)

    Aside from spending more time in television studios than working for the good of her constituents, this crow-like creature is a “hard Brexiteer” with a penchant for claiming expenses for a second home despite representing a North London constituency. Bombastic to her core and a one-time friend of the “arse grabber” Brian Coleman, Theresa Villiers has been described as “divorced, dogmatic and dreadful.” She has bizarrely used three word alliterative phrases at least 724 times in debates, is anti-fox hunting and staunchly pro-Israel.

     

  • Farrell Rolls

    Farrell Rolls

    1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé used by Colin Farrell in 2010 crime noir film ‘London Boulevard’ to be auctioned

     

    A 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé first owned by the Malaysian royal family and more recently used in the 2010 crime noir motion picture London Boulevard – starring Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone – is to be auctioned in London in December.

     

    Professionally restored and featuring ‘Chinese Eye’ slanting headlamp nacelles, the car offered was the last off the production line to be registered and delivered new to Malaysia in June 1966. It remained there until the 2000s and was then registered in the UK by the managing director of the official Bentley dealership in Exeter in June 2009.

     

    The 6.2-litre V8 car – chassis number CSC81C – will be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December at London Olympia. It will be offered with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million).

     

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    Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone.Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone. Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone.Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone. Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone.Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone. Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone. Farrell Rolls – 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III drophead coupé – To be sold by Bonhams at their Collector’s Motor Cars and Automobilia sale on 6th December 2017 with an estimate of £300,000 to £350,000 ($397,000 to $463,000, €338,000 to €395,000 or درهم1.5 million to درهم1.7 million) – Used by Colin Farrell in 2010 film ‘London Boulevard’ also starring Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone.

     

  • Rotten Rolf Still Rotten

    Rotten Rolf Still Rotten

    As the majority of the convictions of Rolf Harris are upheld, one of his unhinged supporters, Lizzie Cornish, launches into yet another of her tirades

     

    Yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, a man labeled a “disgusting creature” by one of his victims, Rolf Harris, failed in his attempt to overturn eleven out of twelve of his convictions for indecent assault against women and children.

     

    Whilst elements of the media seized on one conviction being thrown out, His Honour Judge Brown, Lord Justice Treacy and Mrs Justice McGowan found that “nothing arises which could impugn the safety of [the remaining] convictions.” They specifically noted:

     

    “Stepping back and looking at the totality of the evidence of Counts 2 to 12, including the bad character evidence, we find nothing that causes us to doubt the safety of those convictions… The primary evidence… remained intact, as did the body of bad character evidence.”

     

    Elsewhere, one of the paedophile child abuser Harris’ unhinged supporters, Lizzie Cornish, wrote to The Steeple Times. In a series of rants on our comments pages – which we will not be publishing due to the fact that they would offend genuine victims – crackpot Miss Cornish commented:

     

    “Your putrid words about me make me sick! … [The] case STANK from the very start…and people like you believed it! People like me, Steeples, stood up against them and had to endure the likes of YOU!”

     

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  • Whacking Out The Wheat

    Whacking Out The Wheat

    Upto 20 sensible Conservative MPs are set to rebel against ‘Wheat Field Wanderer’ Theresa May over her plans to enshrine the date of Brexit in law

     

    This morning The Telegraph revealed upto twenty Conservative MPs are set to do the right thing. Unsurprisingly deemed “Brexit mutineers” by the paper, this diverse group “have informed senior party figures that they will join forces with Labour to block new measures that would enshrine the date of Brexit in law.”

     

    Fifteen of these sensible individuals are reported as being:

     

    Heidi Allen

    Ken Clarke

    Jonathan Djanogly

    Vicky Ford

    Dominic Grieve

    Stephen Hammond

    Oliver Heald

    Jeremy Lefroy

    Paul Masterton

    Nicky Morgan

    Bob Neil

    Antoinette Sandbach

    Anna Soubry

    Tom Tughendhat

    Sarah Wollaston

     

    We salute them all and encourage other right-minded sorts to join their number.

     

    #BetterTogether #WreckBrexit

    #BringHerDown #MakeNovemberTheEndOfMay

     

  • Foot in Mouth in K&C

    Foot in Mouth in K&C

    Both Labour and the Tories get it very wrong in Kensington and disgrace themselves with their truly offensive conduct

     

    On Monday, the political blog Guido Fawkes exposed the new Member of Parliament for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, as having viciously called a black Tory candidate named Shaun Bailey as a “token ghetto boy,” “gobby and dangerous,” a “free-loading scumbag” and “the most hated man in North Kensington” back in 2010 in a post on her blog.

     

    Elsewhere, on Twitter, various users shared a survey circulated by Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives that disgustingly asked residents of the Courtfield Ward to rate the importance of the Grenfell Tower tragedy on a scale of one-to-ten in terms of its importance.

     

    One is only left asking: What on earth is wrong with these moronic people? Have they not an ounce of sense?

     

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    Foot in Mouth in K&C – Emma Dent Coad and KC&F Conservatives – Both Labour and the Tories get it very wrong in Kensington and disgrace themselves with their truly offensive conduct.
    Emma Dent Coad MP likes to blog and tweet yet blocked her now constituent Matthew Steeples on Twitter after he asked her about the hidden homeless problem in South Kensington prior to her election; she claimed to be “too busy” to answer him
    Foot in Mouth in K&C – Emma Dent Coad and KC&F Conservatives – Both Labour and the Tories get it very wrong in Kensington and disgrace themselves with their truly offensive conduct.
    The disgraceful survey put out by Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives
  • The World’s Most Flirtatious Car

    The World’s Most Flirtatious Car

    Off-the-wall 24-carat gold 1958 Austin Healey that would appeal to Liberace to be sold at auction in New York with an estimate of £420,000

     

    A truly bonkers one-off 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six that was given the monikers ‘Goldie’ and ‘The Golden Child’ is to be sold at auction in December.

     

    For sale for 165% less than it was offered for in 2013 but 781% more than it was valued at in 1958, ‘Goldie’ is capable of speeds of upto 120 miles per hour but what makes her unique is that all brightwork – including the trimming washers and screws, wire wheels, disc brakes, bumpers and instruments – are plated in 24-carat gold.

     

    The car’s interior is trimmed in champagne Connolly kid leather and champagne diadem mink by London furrier Lorna Doon Snow adorn the inserts and back squabs of the bucket seats and the key ring comes complete with a solid-gold scale replica of the car itself.

     

    The brainchild of Donald Healey’s then PR manager, Ken Gregory, in association with the Daily Express’s then motoring correspondent, Basil Cardew, ‘Goldie’ was the show-stopping car exhibited at the entrance to the 1958 London Motor Show at Earl’s Court. She reportedly wowed audiences and no doubt would have been dubbed a ‘dream machine’ by the motoring world’s most extravagant doyenne, Lady Docker.

     

    Sold immediately to the paper the Daily Express dedicated a page to the promotion of a reader competition to win ‘Goldie’ on 22nd October 1958. Of her, they remarked:

     

    “[This is] the world’s most flirtatious car… The Daily Express has bought it… You can win it. She’s elegant… she wears mink… and she adores champagne. No, not the girl… the car!”

     

    “The real stuff… The most sumptuous… A vintage squirt… The biggest sensation of the [Motor Show at Earl’s Court]… Yes, you could call it the car that was born with a golden spoon in its mouth!”

     

    “In the whole of the land there isn’t anything to match it.”

     

    Surprisingly, the winner of the competition decided to sell the vehicle immediately. She was first road-registered in February 1959 and then passed through various owners until being completely restored by Bruce and Inan Phillips of Healey Surgeons of Washington, D.C. between 1983 and 1986.

     

    Speaking of what the current marketing catalogue entry describes as “the most spectacular Austin Healey ever produced,” Inan Phillips is said to have remarked: “[‘Goldie’ was] one fantastic running and driving car… The smoothest driving Austin Healey we’ve ever owned.”

     

    In time sold to a wealthy businessman and Jeep restorer named Dennis Collins from Wylie, Texas, ‘Goldie’ was offered for sale first on eBay and then at auction in Houston, Texas for £758,000 in 2013 and 2014. It appears no sale went through and now an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 has been set for this striking creation.

     

    RM Sotheby’s will sell ‘Goldie’ at their annual New York ‘Icons’ sale on 6th December. They list the vehicle as being “without reserve.” If only Liberace were still around to put in a bid.

     

    ‘Goldie’ – The Numbers

     

    December 2017 – Offered for sale at auction with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million) in New York.

     

    January 2014 – Offered for sale with a ‘buy-it-now’ price of £758,000 ($1 million, €857,000 or درهم3.7 million) on eBay.

     

    March 2013 – Offered for sale for £758,000 ($1 million, €857,000 or درهم3.7 million) in Houston, Texas by Collins Brothers Jeep owner Dennis Collins.

     

    October 1958 – Valued at £4,000 (the equivalent of £86,000, $113,000, €97,000 or درهم417,000 today) prior to being sold to the Daily Express and offered in a reader competition in London.

     

    The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017 The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017 The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017The World’s Most Flirtatious Car – 1958 Austin-Healey 100-Six ‘Goldie’ to be sold at auction by RM Sotheby’s in New York with no reserve and an estimate of £265,000 to £417,000 ($350,000 to $550,000, €300,000 to €471,000 or درهم1.3 million to درهم2 million on 6th December 2017

  • Lotti Henley (born Princess Windisch-Graetz of Austria)

    Lotti Henley (born Princess Windisch-Graetz of Austria)

    In spite of being born in 1925 in a castle in Austria, West London based mother of two Lotti Henley spends days feeding the homeless and destitute. Enthusiastic and dedicated to “caring for food,” this nonagenarian community heroin co-founded the Plan Zheroes charity in 2011 as part of her “vision of a world where no one will be living in food poverty.” A refugee and nurse herself in the Second World War, Henley was forced to suck stones to trick her stomach into thinking it was full and now her motto is: “Too blessed to be stressed and it’s true… I’ve never forgotten hunger… Do not waste food, pass it on to a charity geographically close… It doesn’t take an awful lot and it’s awfully fun… 39% of all in landfill is food and it’s all good food.” A truly wonderful lady working for a sadly ridiculously necessary cause.

  • Highs and Lows in Hyde Park

    Highs and Lows in Hyde Park

    Pint-sized flat in Knightsbridge goes on sale for ambitious sum of £5,813 per square foot; it was offered for the even more crazy sum of £7,027 per square foot in 2013

     

    The owners of an apartment in the edifice of vulgarity that is One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge plainly have no belief in Brexit and increased stamp duty having affected the property market given they have just put the 989 square foot space on the market for the punchy price of £5.75 million ($7.65 million, €6.58 million or درهم28.11 million).

     

    Offered effectively for £5,183 per square foot ($6,900, €5,928 or درهم25,342 per square foot) by agents Strutt & Parker, the third floor space was last marketed in June 2013 with what appears to be identical interior design for £6.95 million ($9.25 million, €7.95 million or درهم33.99 million). It consists of a 26’2” by 12’10” reception room with a champagne bar, a 9’2” by 6’4” kitchen and an 18’3” by 10’6 bedroom with an en-suite bathroom and comes with a single parking space and basement storage room.

     

    A similar 988 square foot apartment on the fourth floor – which had been repossessed by an Irish bank – was marketed for £5.25 million ($6.99 million, €6.01 million or درهم25.68 million) or £5,313 per square foot ($7,071, €6,077 or درهم25,980 per square foot) in September 2013.

     

    Highs and Lows in Hyde Park – £5.75 million for One Hyde Park flat –Pint-sized flat in Knightsbridge goes on sale for £5,813 per square foot; it was offered for £7,027 per square foot in 2013 - £5.75 million ($7.65 million, €6.58 million or درهم28.11 million) for B.03.3, One Hyde Park, 100 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LJ through Strutt & ParkerHighs and Lows in Hyde Park – £5.75 million for One Hyde Park flat –Pint-sized flat in Knightsbridge goes on sale for £5,813 per square foot; it was offered for £7,027 per square foot in 2013 - £5.75 million ($7.65 million, €6.58 million or درهم28.11 million) for B.03.3, One Hyde Park, 100 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LJ through Strutt & Parker Highs and Lows in Hyde Park – £5.75 million for One Hyde Park flat –Pint-sized flat in Knightsbridge goes on sale for £5,813 per square foot; it was offered for £7,027 per square foot in 2013 - £5.75 million ($7.65 million, €6.58 million or درهم28.11 million) for B.03.3, One Hyde Park, 100 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LJ through Strutt & ParkerHighs and Lows in Hyde Park – £5.75 million for One Hyde Park flat –Pint-sized flat in Knightsbridge goes on sale for £5,813 per square foot; it was offered for £7,027 per square foot in 2013 - £5.75 million ($7.65 million, €6.58 million or درهم28.11 million) for B.03.3, One Hyde Park, 100 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LJ through Strutt & Parker

  • The Accolades of Abuse

    The Accolades of Abuse

    Top-drawer politicians again sweep serious incidents of historic abuse under the carpet; focusing on film star abusers instead is not the solution

     

    Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Theresa May’s thirty-six apparently ropey sex pest MPs are undoubtedly – if all or indeed any of the allegations against them are proven true – repugnant specimens but what about the existing and conveniently forgotten victims of historic abuse by equally powerful individuals including politicians, religious figures and police officers?

     

    Just because a few well-known personalities – and admittedly long after the crimes against them, in some cases, have past the statute of limitation – have leapt up now, the media and politicians have joined a bandwagon of #MeToo. In the much older case, however, of the VIP abuse at the Elm Guest House in Richmond – a place of which only one decent MP, Zac Goldsmith, has bothered to speak out – all remains sadly silent and all allegations remain headed for being swept under the carpet.

     

    For Theresa May, it suits to allow Christian abusers with a penchant for hanging out with gangsters to remain free as it does to continue to claim that Sir Edward Heath was a decent man also. We remain in a world where Sir Cyril Smith – a vile paedo (but one like Sir Edward never tried in any court of law) is described as a paedophile without hesitation – whilst other plainly apparent living monsters walk the streets scot-free. The late Lord Janner, a nasty bastard if ever there were one, is condemned yet nobody dare talk of a living MP with a predilection for a bit of groping (male or female, it does not matter) in his office.

     

    Shame on Britain and yet again shame on Theresa May. Our useless Prime Minister has done nothing to solve this situation and frankly the hectoring vicar’s daughter didn’t exactly set a great example by accepting the hand of her “pussy grabbing” mate Donald Trump.

     

    The Accolades of Abuse – Theresa May, Elm Guest House and Harvey Weinstein – Top-drawer politicians again sweep serious incidents of historic abuse under the carpet; focusing on film star abusers instead is not the solution.
    A 2014 ‘Daily Mail’ article about what allegedly went on at the Elm Guest House
    The Accolades of Abuse – Theresa May, Elm Guest House and Harvey Weinstein – Top-drawer politicians again sweep serious incidents of historic abuse under the carpet; focusing on film star abusers instead is not the solution.
    The late Sir Cyril Smith (pictured with Jeremy Thorpe) is widely cited as one of British politics’ worst abusers
    The Accolades of Abuse – Theresa May, Elm Guest House and Harvey Weinstein – Top-drawer politicians again sweep serious incidents of historic abuse under the carpet; focusing on film star abusers instead is not the solution.
    Paedo politician Lord Boothby had a curious relationship with the gangster Ronnie Kray; the pair supposedly got up to all sorts of things with innocent youngsters
    The Accolades of Abuse – Theresa May, Elm Guest House and Harvey Weinstein – Top-drawer politicians again sweep serious incidents of historic abuse under the carpet; focusing on film star abusers instead is not the solution.
    Jonathan King is to be tried concerning allegations of historic abuse against young boys in January; allegations against the late Sir Edward Heath remain unproven in spite of a costly investigation
    The Accolades of Abuse – Theresa May, Elm Guest House and Harvey Weinstein – Top-drawer politicians again sweep serious incidents of historic abuse under the carpet; focusing on film star abusers instead is not the solution.
    Serial abuser Jimmy Savile liked to hang out with everyone from Cardinal Keith O’Brien (pictured) to Prince Charles and Margaret Thatcher; widespread knowledge of the abuse he committed was swept under the carpet during his lifetime

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvMsyiNXWsw

  • Pleading for Police

    Pleading for Police

    London set to see number of police stations reduced from 149 in 2010 to just 32 by 2020; we urge readers to support a petition to stop this

     

    In 2010, London had 149 police stations; there are now just 73 and if Conservative plans go ahead there’ll be just 32 – or one per borough, except for Westminster – by 2020.

     

    Theresa May as Home Secretary focused on flogging off places where the public could report crime and now as Prime Minister, her government is determined to remove community assets in favour of encouraging people to report crime online, to the 101 telephone number and in cafés and retail shops.

     

    Finding a bobby on the beat, another suggested alternative, is nigh on impossible in many areas and here we urge readers to sign the Kensington Society’s petition to save Notting Hill Police Station. Their ‘Police Campaign’ is a revelation and makes for utterly shocking reading. Shame on our government for not providing the resources to properly protect its citizens.