Trouble in paradise
There’s been trouble in The Committee for some time with The Boys finally having their way. The boys were unhappy with it from Day One, unaccustomed as they are to sharing power with “ruddy civilians”, especially when it comes to their prized “assets” and the games they’ve been playing for decades. They gritted their teeth and accepted the committee but have been criticizing it to The Man of Steel at every opportunity. One of their main irritants, they said, was a hack who tended to be garrulous, especially when interacting with his tribe. They seem to have got their way again, and are poised to hijack The Committee so that they can decide how the Taliban are to be dealt with. A fat lot of good their “decisions” have done us over the years!
Then there’s The Boys’ on-again, off-again love affair with the Yanks, where there’s been some cozying up of late. But make no mistake about it – just as the Yanks are supportive of the government’s peace initiative with India, they’re highly critical of The Boys’ failure to rein in jihadist extremists who can deliver a crippling blow to The Man of Steel’s diplomacy, a la Bombay 2008.
Another Great Khan
Another Great Khan has been making waves, folks. The similarities don’t end there. This Khan too has Pakistani antecedents and he’s swept another British heiress off her feet. Having divorced Jemima Khan’s bro, Kate Rothschild has taken up with London-based rapper and super-producer Naughty Boy. NB’s real name is Shahid Khan and he had a UK Number 1 single at the end of 2013 with a song called “La La La”. Khan, aka Naughty Boy recently tweeted a photo of himself with Jemima and celebrity chef Nigella Lawson in London; he wrote “Nice to meet these lovely ladies earlier for tea”. The ladies described Naughty Boy as a “top cool cat”, especially after he offered help towards a Palestine aid charity run by Jemima’s friends. “You are so passionate about the important things in life”, he told the ladies. Naughty Boy, 29, works out of studios in Ealing and he’s one of Britain’s leading rappers.
Flying kites
Even a mock-up of that poor, damned festival of Basant is not safe from the depredations of this puritanical order. We hear a theatre group was doing a play in Lahore about the banned festival and had asked a kite maker to supply a whole horde of kites to them, for the purposes of the drama. Our mole says over-zealous government officials got to hear of it and arrested the kite maker before he could say “Bo Kaata!” The poor man was released after several intercessions and much bowing and scraping.
No wonder we’re such a joyless people.