Helmintholog

Stephen Byers has been caught with a woman not his not wife by the News of the World. Perhaps her name will be changed to Buffy: as Faith once said in a rather different context, she boinked the undead.

So we wonder, what’s it like?

Apparently he said “the most disgusting thing she had ever heard” in the throes of passion. I think I know what this might have been: “I’ve had an issue. It mustn’t turn into a personality.”

Rupert keeps asking if he is the only person here. Not while I’m alive he isn’t. And I discovered this morning that of all the 2 billion sites that Google indexes, there is only one that comes top of the list when you ask for a sleazy piece of trash journalism. And it’s mine. So let’s big it up for Professor Daniel Dennett.

I’m never sure whether journalists more resemble prostitutes when dealing with editors or when talking to people who want to be in the newspapers.

In the second case, we get to watch our clients in grip of degrading passions, yet convinced that they and they alone are truly special. In the first case, we get to be degraded ourselves.

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