Tag Archives: marriage

Channeling Our Inner Princess

I resolved some time ago to avoid mentioning The Royal You Know What on this blog. However, now it’s over - but is on some kind of endless media loop tape — I feel impelled to say that the main problem with weddings in the tarty 21st Century isn’t the empty promises and meaningless gestures. Everyone loves …

April 30, 2011 – 7:12 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual | Tagged , | Comments (11)

The Tories’ New Section 28

by Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, 25 March 2010) Whatever happened to the Tory party of the 1980s that refused to use taxpayers’ money to prop up failing industries making things people didn’t want? That told us sternly, usually in a helmet of hair-lacquer, “the market must decide”? It turns out the Tories aren’t so laissez-faire if …

March 25, 2010 – 5:23 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in gay, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)

Marriage: David Cameron’s Lame Duck Industry

From The London Times David Cameron has propelled marriage to the centre of the election campaign after surprising the Tory party faithful with a promise to spell out his flagship policy before polling day. Rallying the troops after a narrowing of the poll lead, the Conservative leader said that he would announce details of tax …

March 1, 2010 – 12:30 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

Gay Civil Unions Replacing Straight Marriage in France

According to the Daily Telegraph, ninety per cent of French “solidarity pacts” a year, some 135,000 of them, are now being made between people of the opposite sex, ‘despite them being designed for homosexuals, who are not formally allowed to marry in France’.  Unlike in the UK, the Civil Solidarity Pacts, or PACS, are open …

March 7, 2009 – 6:52 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , | Comments (8)