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Remember wacky American commentator Ann Coulter, she of Newsnight fame? Well, apparently her brand of right-wing lunacy knows no bounds:

Ms. COULTER: I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality.

DEUTSCH: OK, I think you need to say that again. That Bill Clinton, you think on some level, has — is a latent homosexual, is that what you’re saying?

Ms. COULTER: Yeah. I mean, not sort of just completely anonymous — I don’t know if you read the Starr report, the rest of us were glued to it, I have many passages memorized. No, there was more plot and dialogue in a porno movie.

Read the transcript from Wonkette to get the full effect. Warning: may contain nuts.

(Via Crooks and Liars, which also reports her more succinct comment about Clinton’s VP: “Al Gore — total fag”.)

Here’s a quick quiz for you. Very simple: match the LibDem MP with their favourite album. Six MPs, six albums.

Answers in the comments please. Prize is nothing more than a flush of pride and the respect of your peers.

Getting a new passport is a stressful business. You have to get an application form, read through all the documents (some of which you won’t need), and obtain passport photographs which, by law, make you look ten years older, several stone heavier and ravaged by an obscure tropical disease. Then you send everything off in the post and cross your fingers that Royal Mail won’t lose your documents on the way or your shiny new passport on its way back, and pray that it will arrive before you need it. Oh, and you fork out a load of money for the privilege of being able to leave the country.

When I last renewed my passport, I paid £42. Last year, that went up to £51. In October, it will rise to £66. That a 57% increase over just two years. Supposedly this is to pay for biometrics nonsense which we don’t need – I’d be in trouble if we did need it, as my new passport isn’t due for renewal until 2015. Why can’t we opt out and have a cheaper, biometric free version? Because it’s all about ID cards, of course. There is the implied link between the biometrics in passports and the biometrics in the national identity database, and this rise will also go towards the creation of ID processing centres for us to be herded through like cattle when the time comes.

More importantly, these steady rises provide political cover for the introduction of ID cards. Instead of the Government having to announce a price rise from £42 to £93 (assuming that the price really will be £93), they can say “Oh, it’s only a bit more than £66”, or whatever figure they’ve hiked the passport cost to just before ID cards come in.

So don’t just renew for freedom – renew before October to save yourself fifteen quid.