A right royal farce

Its 10:30am and I'm desperately trying to occupy myself without resorting to what the rest of the world seem to be doing right now:  watching two people they don't know get married.


So, I thought it was time I returned to spouting my opinion right here on my blog.


I am anti -monarchist.  I'm not ashamed of it.  I believe that, in this day and age, it is wrong.  I don't hate the British royal family as individuals (although I do think some of them are buffoons), but I disagree in principle with their existence and, most importantly, with the fact that tax-payer's money is used to finance them.


In relation to this wedding,  I just can't help thinking that, in an ideal world, where they weren't treated like zoo animals in a cage by the rest of us, that this is not how they would have liked their wedding to be. A wedding is an intimate affair that you want to share with those who are special and those whom you love. Not with every Tom, Dick, Harry and Royal wannabes like David & Victoria Beckham. This is not a wedding for William and Katie. It is a pantomime and a farce to pander to what the nation and the world expects. Its funny really, people say women in porn are exploited, even though they are compensated financially relatively well for choosing to do what they do. William has no choice. but is compensated extremely well. And yet he has had to suffer as a 'dancing bear' for the world for the whole of his life and will do so until the day he dies. Is this not state-sanctioned exploitation?


I mean, the poor lad lost his mother as an indirect result of the world's desire to stalk her. Have we learned nothing?


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JOHNNY ANGLAIS at the launch of LoveLife

You are cordially invited to attend the first ever LoveLife event at Cafe De Paris.

JOHNNY ANGLAIS at the launch of LoveLife Join JOHNNY ANGLAIS as one of his discounted special guests, at the launch of LoveLife, a new Polysexual tea dance in London's swanky Cafe de Paris. This May Bank Holiday Sunday, London’s most spectacular party, Lovechild, joins forces with Rome’s infamous superclub, Muccassassina, to bring you LoveLife, a polysexual tea dance to smooth you into May. With EUROPRIDE 2011 scheduled to take over Rome in June, Lovelife is an official Euro-pride pre-party to the huge celebrations planned for this year. Set in the opulent surroundings of London’s Cafe de Paris, and hosted by the fabulous Fuxia and Simone from Muccassassina, LoveLife promises a sophisticated scene of cocktails and champagne to the accompaniment of cool, breezy vibes served up by Lovechild and Muccassassina resident DJs Tony English and Micky Galliano, with guests Louis K (Island Groove), Patrick Lilley, Gepy, and Brent Nicholls. Leading the dancing to the glamourfunk sounds will be the voluptuous girls and hunky boys who make up the Lovechild Lovebunnies - costumed and choreographed by Nhamo to jive and jingle before your very eyes. LoveLife is an official Europride Rome pre-party and promises to be filled with VIPs, Fashionistas and members of the London glitterati. The event will be filmed for MIRRORBALLS.TV so make sure you pick up your early bird tickets to be seen at the scene’s most glamorous spring gathering. Cafe de Paris, 3-4 Coventry Street, London, W1D 63L If you are interested in being one of Johnny Anglais' discounted special guests, please email him at johnnyanglais@gmail.com with your name (plus the name of your guest) and mobile phone number. We really hope you can make it and look forward to seeing you there. www.johnnyanglais.com

Article for PVV Online

In was recently interviewed by Chauntelle Tibbals of PVV online and here's the article:

http://pvvonline.com/?p=726

'The Knot' movie wrap party

So, after 5 weeks of shooting, 'The Knot' movie is now a wrap.  Here's a selection of pictures from the wrap party at The Piccadilly Institute:

With producer, writer and actor, Noel Clarke

 

(l-r_)With Drewe Morton , Jason Maza and Marq Miller#

With Susannah Fielding

With Louise Dylan

With Juliet Oldfield

Official Johnny Anglais Merchandise now available!

You can now get your very own Johnny Anglais 'X-Rated Teacher' t-shirt! What a great gift idea! Only £16.50!!!:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/JohnnyAnglais.516488612#

No staff room would be complete without it - get your very own 'X-Rated Teacher Mug', or maybe buy it as a gift for your favourite teacher! Coffee will never be the same again. Just £12!!!:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/JohnnyAnglais.516490208

Letter to School

I promised the school that a copy of this communication will be posted on the internet so that, should they so wish, any pupils or member of public in a similar situation, may use it as a reference.  So here is my response to recent actions within a school I previously worked at:

Dear [the Headteacher],

It has come to my attention that several students have been disciplined (including receiving exclusions) over comments on my Facebook page in relation to a member of staff at your school.

It is interesting to see how you find it unacceptable for students to comment on their opinions and concerns of current teaching staff, but how keen you are as a school to submit anonymous comments from students on another website (http://uk.ratemyteachers.com) as evidence for the General Teaching Council's case against me.  Need I really highlight the level of hypocrisy employed here?!

Let me make a few things very clear:

Firstly, I am no longer in the employment of [a London] Borough Council and am perfectly entitled to communicate with and befriend whomsoever I may please, as are your students.  You have absolutely no right to tell your students who they can and cannot befriend or talk to within their private lives.  I understand that, because of the school's paranoia about what information I may share with them, you do not look on it favourably, but you can only advise and not tell any student that they cannot communicate with me.  Also, your students have rights in relation to respect for their private lives and their freedom of expression that are being blatantly infringed.  As a reminder to you, please take note of the following:

"Facebook Terms and Conditions

Safety

5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else."

"European Convention on Human Rights

As adopted by the UK under the 'Human Rights Act' in 1998

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life

Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

Article 10 – Freedom of expression

Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."

"The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

as signed and proclaimed by the Presidents of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission at the European Council meeting in Nice on 7 December 2000.

Art 7. Respect for private and family life

Definition

Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

Art 11. Freedom of expression and information

Definition

Everyone has the right to freedom of expression.  This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.  The freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected."

Of course, there are certain conditions when these rights may be compromised.  In the case of schools, this is usually when there are accusations of 'cyber-bullying'.   However, there is no 'cyber-bullying' going on here.  It is young people expressing their opinion about a teacher amongst people they class as 'friends', something young people have done for generations amongst themselves.  On the contrary, there are serious accusations expressed of mental and verbal bullying by a member of your teaching staff which must be taken on board and, if it has not already taken place, investigated.

Secondly, I have been notified by several students of inappropriate comments made by this same member of staff about me.  Whilst I have absolutely no issue with anybody disagreeing with my actions, life choices or disliking me, it is totally unacceptable that this member of staff should make public and frequent inappropriate references to me in front of students when it has nothing to do with the content of the lesson and when they  are perfectly able to make up their own minds without the spreading of prejudice and  maliciousness by this certain member of staff, who I have personally had no issues whatsoever with in the past.

Thirdly, I have made no mention of this member of staff's name or which establishment they are employed by and have not stated anything that is not true.  It is clear this member of staff has a habit of publicly questioning my morals without ever reflecting publicly on their own.

Fourthly, I made a posting on Facebook in relation to this member of staff precisely because I had received several comments about their inappropriateness and was wanting to garner more evidence.  It seems it is acceptable for this member of staff to publicly spout his opinion on my life choices, but does not appreciate it when the they receive the same in return.

If I receive any further reports about this member of staff (or any other) using my name in any context whatsoever in front of students, or if I hear of any student being punished for expressing an 'opinion' (as long as that opinion is not derogatory) I will take further action.  These are both totally unacceptable.

Should you wish to contact me before then to discuss further, please feel free to use this email or call me.

Yours sincerely,

Benedict Garrett

A stripping first in Albania

For a first in Albanian history, Club Mumja in the country's capital city, Tirana, invited two male strippers to perform at their event celebrating the annual national Ladies Day holiday.  Those two lucky strippers were myself and the long-time stripping legend and my great friend from the Adonis Cabaret days, Paul Grant.

Here's a a couple of videos to give you a taster of how the event went:

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