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Women Get Away With Affairs Because of Their Expert Lying, Says Woman Who Got Away With An Affair With Future British Prime Minister

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:12:00 GMT

This is Edwina Currie, the conservative politician who cheated on her husband with married future British Prime Minister John Major. Edwina wrote a piece for the Daily Mail this week on the latest poll on cheaters and how they get away with it...

So a new survey has come up with the surprise revelation that women are just as likely to be unfaithful as men.
Why didn't anyone realise this earlier?
Simply, it seems, because we women are more wily. While men are likely to strut around bragging about their conquests - indeed, even exaggerating the scale of their extramarital infidelities - women, conversely, are apt to keep mum about theirs.
Two thousand women were questioned in a recent sex and relationship survey. One in six of them admitted to having adulterous sex.
But here's the revelation: while females almost invariably discover the truth when their spouses stray, women are adept at keeping their own infidelities secret.

Currie also points out the already-infamous recent interview given by Dame Eileen Atkins in which the 70-something actress confessed that Colin Farrell had repeatedly propositioned her one night a few years back, in which Atkins said:

'Women are more successful at infidelity than men - they're better liars.'

Interestingly, it was Currie who broke the news of the affair, more than a decade after it ended, in her 2002 autobiography. She later trashed Major for being sexist and racist and disparaged his work as Prime Minister. She also admitted that, after all that time, she still loved him...

Anyway, what do we think about this survey? Are woman better at conducting affairs (and getting away with them) because of their skills as liars?

Via the Daily Mail.

Your Daily Dose of Boobies: Lily Allen

Emily Farris — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:43:00 GMT

British pop star Lily Allen went for a swim without her top on. We just hope she put some sunscreen on those babies. We've had burned boobies before and it is no fun for anyone. NSFW pictures after the jump.

So is this what it's like to be British (if so, how do we join?) or does she have a new album coming out?

[Via Hollywood Tuna]

Gay Iranian Teen Denied Asylum in The Netherlands

Emily Farris — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:37:00 GMT

Nineteen-year-old Mehdi Kazemi said his boyfriend was executed in Iran after admitting to being in a gay relationship. So when Kazemi, an Iranian, was denied asylum in Britian where he was staying on a student visa, he fled to The Netherlands and sought refuge there. Now, The Netherlands has rejected his request for asylum, as well.

A Council of State spokesperson said that for the Dutch court to consider Kazemi's asylum application, he would have had to prove that Britian incorrectly handled his application there. Because Kazemi was not able to prove that, The Netherlands would not grant him asylum.

He is now being allowed back into Britan, for a short while:

Kazemi's lawyer will have the option of taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights to request an "interim measure" that could allow Kazemi to stay in Europe until further notice.

"If anybody signs his deportation papers and says, look, he's got to be deported to Iran, that means they have signed his death sentence," said Kazemi's uncle Saeed, who asked CNN to withhold his last name over safety concerns.

Gay rights activists in Europe and Iran are also researching Kazemi's case.
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"When Britain is prepared to send a young man back to possible execution, that is inhumanity on a monumental scale," said Peter Tatchell, an activist for gay campaign group OutRage. "And I hang my head in shame, as a British citizen."

In a written statement, Britain's Home Office said that even though homosexuality is illegal in Iran and homosexuals do experience discrimination, it does not believe that homosexuals are routinely persecuted purely on the basis of their sexuality.

[CNN: Gay Iranian teen loses asylum appeal]