It’s Kentucky Fried Corbyn!
FURTHER to my item last week about a full-blooded red ‘Corbin’ wine, a reader reminds me that Corbin in Kentucky was the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Perhaps a glance at KFC’s Colonel Sanders offers a clue to Jeremy Corbyn’s throwback beardy look. AS SCOTTISh First Minister, Alex Salmond often went into battle with Donald Trump over his plans for a £750 million golf resort in Aberdeenshire. Trump became irate about the number of nearby wind farms, which he feared were blighting his pride and joy. Salmond, who lost his seat at Westminster at the election, will talk at the edinburgh Festival next month about letters fired off by Trump on the subject before he was U.S. President. Salmond calls them ‘poison pen letters — capital letters in green ink’. he says: ‘It’s not going to be nasty, it’s poking fun at him.’ WhO or what was Brexit minister Baroness Anelay getting at when she said: ‘As a minister you get your finger caught in the nut and the screw.’ For some reason it brings to mind Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, though for the life of me I can’t think why. IS AGE catching up with John Prescott, who had an affair with his diary secretary when Deputy PM? He tells Saga magazine: ‘I’ve learned that if a young woman is smiling at me, it’s because she recognises me off the TV and it’s not an invitation for anything else.’