Every now and again, I have to protest to my American friends that England actually is a serious country. It’s not all faint echoes of Monty Python and ‘Are You Being Served.’ And then I read the Guardian this morning. Here’s a priceless correction about an overheard comment from Ms. Ann Widdecombe, a large, well-bosomed, big-haired Tory, known in the House of Commons as Attila the Hen:
Ann Widdecombe: an apology.
In an item yesterday, we referred disapprovingly to a remark made by Ms Widdecombe to my so-called rival on the Telegraph, concerning a male acquaintance going to “pussy heaven.” We now accept that Ms Widdecombe was in fact referring to her cat, Carruthers, who recently passed away. We are greatly distressed by this misunderstanding.
You really can’t make this stuff up, can you?
The Dish 