MY FIRST PUBLISHED ARTICLE!

My first published article with byline. I am a little bit proud.

HERE

(fuck it, I am a lot proud. probably only triumphed by mummy)

LolCleggz and a weekly report

One week down at The Kent Messenger Group! So far I have reported on Pixie Lott , the London Marathon, the Election and a single mum who is being maltreated by the council.
Local news is a lot more fun than I expected.

However, might be more cut out to do magazine editing after all. We will see, only the future can tell.

I discovered the funniest election thing so far. Lolcatz ("I can haz cheezburger?") has become LolCleggz! They are brilliant!


pictures are shamelessly nicked from popbitch.com

The Queen and I

I am going to see the Queen!

No, no, not Lizzie (frankly, I don't think she would enjoy Heaven) but the Queen of Kick-ass Boom-Booming Popelectro Bbbbeats - ROBYN!

I know, my tummy just wont settle.

She is playing at Heaven in June and I've got two of the pre-sale tickets. Yey! I have been a massive fan for as long as I can remember - we are talking me as a five-year old singing 'Do you really want me' at the Daycare Centre. Others have Madonna, Beyonce and even Lady Gaga: I have Robyn as my ultimate female icon. Wow.

Bangkok protesters use children to fight their battle

Photo: Marcus Wennstam, aftonbladet.se

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports from the violent protests in Bangkok where the government critical 'Red shirts' are preparing to go into acual battle with the military. their strategy? Sending children armed with slingshots to the frontline. Aftonbladet writes(my own translation): "The warriors are made up mostly of boys in their late teens. They wear black clothes and red scarves. But in the front are also children not more than 10 years old. One of the boys are posing proudly with his slingshot. he is wearing a white plastic helmet on his head and a simple mask covering his mouth. Instructed by one of the older boys, he clenches his fist and stares into the camera. His enemies are waiting a couple of hundred metres away. Thousands of soldiers armed with automatic weapons, water canons and tear gas."

Am I the only one who hears "Cambodia, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge" ringing over and over in my head?

Scandilous Life meets Pixie Lott

Guess who is off to interview Pixie Lott about her new Lipsy collection this afternoon?

Yes, ME, ME, ME!

I am getting a press pass and everything. My first real press pass. Now this is what it's all about. I'm jumping in my chair and doing 'retard claps' and humming along to Miss Lott's 'Band Aid'

On education

One thing that amazes me about my adopted home-country is the hatred of good education.

"What did she say?"

Yeah, that's right. "David Cameron went to Eton - what an upper-class twat, we can't have him - and Nick Clegg went to £28k a year Westminster School, he is not in touch with the working classes"

Wtf? Westminster School has the highest acceptance rate at Oxbridge Universities, is that not evidence enough ? (and don't give me that bias crap - I went through the application process for Oxford Uni, and that sort of bias is left behind) And Eton, how exclusive and selective it might be in the end, is jawdropping.

But no, that's no good for the Brits. Why would 'a man of the people' i.e. working class have a better understanding of how to run one of the world's greatest nations that one that has had the best education the country can offer?

It is all beyond me.

Tell me Britons, if you had a choice - would you put your kid through public schools?

I wouldn't.

If I had an extra 28.000 every year per future child I would send them to Westminster School in a hearbeat.

... and also, to Jackie Madden (the woman who so loudly protested against the idea of free schools during Cameron's speach in Romsey yesterday): Of course they will take money from the state schools - the whole point is to give each student a school funding that will go with each student - wherever the child attends. So yes, the state schools will miss out - but only if there is another schools that is better. I went to a free school started by a group of parents who thought the existing local state school was abysmal - creating something better because the opportunity was there. Saying schools will "loose out" because of the competition like saying (in the words of D. Cameron) "Isn't is terrible that the BBC has to compete with ITV?" And invest in a Wonderbra - they were all over the place.

Photo: dailymail.co.uk

The end of an era - pt. 2

It is the same feeling I had when I left Sweden. I know I am going to something good and exciting, but leaving my loved ones behind is harder than I thought.
I had my last night at LAB/Academy Bar yesterday and bathrobe-clad vikings, ducks and sailors all joined in and made it a good one. Danny set the bar for the evening at the start of shift when he put on my frilly black knickers (don't ask me why he chose to ask ME for extra undies) underneath his Presidents' Club bathrobe. Delightful.
I cried in the end. Loads. I am going to miss it. The bar, my little work family and all the regulars that I have gotten to know. I salute you. Thanks for the Jäger.