Ephraim Hardcastle

THE Bishop of Carlisle, James Newcome, 62, decrees that Christians have a moral duty to donate their organs. Will he explain this when he next meets the Supreme Governor of the Church of England – ie the Queen – with whom he’s in regular contact as the quaintly styled Clerk of the Closet? The Windsors do not donate their organs. Nor have they expressed approval of the practice. OFTEN worried looking, Prince William must be fretting over the reception accorded to his (Foreign Office-written) speech to young diplomats, interpreted by some as being pro-EU. He thought he’d avoided the EU debate mire by singing the praises of the Commonwealth, who, for some, are faithful friends we abandoned in favour of knavish Europeans. HOLLYWOOD actress Natascha McElhone, 44, pictured, discovered prior to a holiday with her sons that her passport had expired. Her Irish mother Noreen tells me: ‘She went to the British passport office but, although she has a British father and was born here, she was told they’d need to conduct a special investigation. Remembering my Irish nationality, she tried the Irish passport office. They said, “Sure, we know fine who you are,” and her passport is on its way.’ NOTING the embarrassment of Sir Paul McCartney, 73, in Los Angeles – denied entry to a party for nobodies – Piers Morgan gloats: ‘ Moment Sir Paul McCartney’s ego met an LA doorman’s iron resolve... hilarious.’ Morgan was responsible for introducing Sir Paul to his second wife, Heather Mills, 48, and they were together for six years. Daughter Stella (by first wife Linda) later told Piers (he says): ‘Dad’s really grateful, you cost him $50million.’ EU-supporting actress Emma Thompson, 56, who described the UK as a ‘cakefilled, misery laden, grey old island,’ is sometimes suspected of hypocrisy. When it was revealed the high-profile Left-winger had sent her daughter, Gaia, to a private school, Ms Thompson insisted they didn’t live in the catchment area for a suitable state school. As you do. WELL-nourished Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames, 68, tells Twitter fans: ‘Do you ever listen to Women’s Hour (sic)? Goodness me! Did you ever hear such a dismal litany? Must be hell being a woman.’ No doubt his second wife, Serena – a niece of the Duchess of Grafton – takes this in her stride. LONDON buses are emblazoned with adverts for Las Vegas, Nevada, saying: ‘A place where your accent is an aphrodisiac.’ Strangely, there’s no sign of the ads on Birmingham, or Glasgow, omnibuses. FOLLOWING EU discussions with the PM yesterday, Boris Johnson quoted Arnold Schwarzenegger’s catchphrase: ‘I’ll be baaaack!’ In 2007, when Boris was the (chaotic) warm-up act for David Cameron at the Tory conference, Arnie – appearing via a satellite link – was heard chortling: ‘He’s fumbling all over the place!’