Blend in like Beckham? - page 5 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, January 4, 2020 • Number 1816 Always Free WEIRDOS NEEDED! Boris Johnson’s chief adviser calls for ‘weirdos and misfits’ for No 10 jobs Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, has written a rambling blog calling for “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to apply for new jobs within No 10. In a move way outside girl hired by Bigend as “Now there is a the usual recruitment a brand ‘diviner’ who confluence of: a) Brexit procedures of Whitehall, feels sick at the sight of requires many large the key architect of Tommy Hilfiger or that changes in policy and in Johnson’s election Chinese-Cuban free the structure of decision- victory has outlined runner from a crime making, b) some people a set of “unusual” family hired by the KGB. in government are qualities he wishes to “If you want to figure prepared to take risks to see in applicants in the out what characters change things a lot, and blog post which runs to around Putin might do, c) a new government nearly 3,000 words. or how international with a significant A lucky junior criminal gangs might majority and little need applicant will be chosen exploit holes in our to worry about short- STRANGE TIMES: The Prime Minister’s controversial adviser Dominic Cummings to be his personal border security, you don’t term unpopularity,” he announced vacancies at Downing Street through a rambling blog post this week assistant, he added. want more Oxbridge said. The move will be English graduates who Applicants are his personal assistant, to make sacrifices in the weekday date nights, seen as part of the new chat about [French instructed to send he warns the would-be role. Cummings warned: you will sacrifice many Conservatives’ plans psychoanalyst Jacques] a one-page email applicant would need “You will not have cont. on page 2, col. 4 to shake up central Lacan at dinner parties outlining their ideas to government and break with TV producers and an unofficial account up the civil service’s spread fake news about - ideasfornumber10@ A Very Harry New Year... alleged stranglehold fake news,” he wrote. gmail.com - with the over policy. In another section, subject line “Job”. In one section, Cummings also He wrote: “We want Cummings wrote that appeared to indicate that to hire an unusual set he wanted to bring he wanted to hire recent of people with different in “super-talented graduates in economics. skills and backgrounds weirdos” with “genuine “You should a) have to work in Downing cognitive diversity” and an outstanding record Street … The categories avoid senior civil service at a great university,” are roughly: data applicants with Oxford he said, but did not say scientists and software and Cambridge English if this would exclude developers; economists; degrees. those who had studied policy experts; “We need some true at Oxford or Cambridge. project managers; wild cards, artists, Cummings told communication experts; people who never potential applicants that junior researchers one went to university and the government’s large of whom will also be fought their way out of majority means that it my personal assistant; an appalling hell hole, can take unpopular risks weirdos and misfits with weirdos from William that others have had to odd skills,” he wrote. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed in the New Year in Canada this Gibson novels like that avoid. In the section seeking week, with Prince Harry posting this adorable picture of himself with baby Archie News from Britain 2-5 • Crossword 9 • Stargazing 9 • Sudoku 9 • Brits in LA 10 • Meet A Member 11 • Sport 18-20 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. January 4, 2020 News From Britain Lib-Dem MP announces she is ‘pansexual’ MP for Oxford West in relationship with former Press Officer Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran has announced she is pansexual and in a relationship with a woman. The MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, who previously only had relationships with men, told PinkNews she is in a relationship with ex- Lib Dem press officer Rosy Cobb. Pansexual may describe being attracted to people, regardless of “Parliament is a weird, backwards place.” - Layla Moran MP their gender. Ms Moran said: “It describe pansexuality person you fall in love matter if they identify doesn’t matter about the to someone who is not with, it’s about the as gay or not. physical attributions of really familiar with the person themselves,” she “In the end, these are the person you fall in term. said. all things that don’t love with.” “It was really damage her career. “Pansexuality, to me, “It doesn’t matter matter - the thing that wonderful on the one “They definitely means it doesn’t matter if they’re a man or a matters is the person, ‘just happy’ hand, but also quite would not have said about the physical woman or gender non- and that you love the Speaking to the surprising for me in anything like that had attributions of the conforming, it doesn’t person.” PinkNews website, Ms how I had identified she been a man,” she Moran - a potential before,” she said. added. candidate to become “Parliament is a Toddler freed from toilet seat by fire crew the next Lib Dem supportive weird, backwards A two-year-old boy I panicked slightly.” Flynn was very happy leader - also criticised “I feel now is the time place. I don’t know if got his head stuck in a She phoned 101 for with his visit from a fire Parliament as a “weird, to talk about it, because there’s any other (MPs) toilet seat and had to be advice and was shocked engine. backwards place” for as an MP I spend a lot of who would identify freed by firefighters. when a full crew of Mrs Edwards thanked LGBTQ people. my time defending our as pansexual, and Flynn Edwards pulled firefighters in a fire the fire crew and added: She said coming community and talking not that many who the removable training engine arrived. “He loved the whole out in the context of about our community. identify as bisexual - seat over his head at Fire crews managed thing and wasn’t scared being an MP had been I want people to there are a few women his home in Saltash, to remove the seat by at all. “slightly more difficult” know I am part of our who are brilliant role Cornwall, on Thursday. snapping it and cutting “Definitely some than telling her friends community as well.” models who have come His mum, Sarah it away, then showed pictures for his 18th and family. She said her family out in their lesbian Edwards, said: “He the toddler the inside of and stories for his first The MP also shared and friends have been relationships.” started calling ‘mummy their vehicle. romance - of all the a picture of herself and supportive, but some Ms Moran, who did stuck’. I realised I Mrs Edwards said: things I thought I had to Ms Cobb on Twitter, people had suggested not rule out running to couldn’t get it off and so “I was mortified but keep out of reach.” writing that she is now being in a same-sex take over as Lib Dem “just happy”. relationship could leader, was asked to WEIRDOS: and is credited with Wolf, who helped draw creating the “take back up the blueprint of Tory 171 Pier Ave. Ste. 121 • Santa Monica CA 90405 control” and “£350m for election pledges, said Tel: (310) 452 2621 • Fax: (310) 314-7653 cont. from page one [email protected] the NHS” slogans. civil servants could be www.british-weekly.com • Twitter/BritishWeekly But he has clashed made to take regular weekends — frankly it with officials and Tory exams to prove they are Managing Editor: Neil Fletcher will be hard having a grandees in the past, and up to their jobs. Deputy Editor: Nick Stark boy/girlfriend at all. has not held back with Under “seismic” Contributing Writers: Sean Borg, Alan Darby Drake, “It will be exhausting his opinions on other changes being planned John Hiscock, Eileen Lee, , Rick Parcell, Anne Shaw, but interesting and if high-profile Brexiters by No 10, she also said Nick Stark, Craig Bobby Young you cut it you will be such as David Davis, that civil servants are Showbusiness Editor: Sean Borg involved in things at whom he once labelled “woefully unprepared” Advertising Manager: Mark Devlin the age of 21 that most as “lazy as a toad” and for sweeping reforms. Legal Notices and DBAs: Mirelle Woolf people never see.” as “thick as mince”. 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