Monday, February 16, 2009

What's it all about, Alfie?   [Mark Steyn]

Anyone who thinks contemporary Britain's problems are confined to radical Islam should take a casual glance at the morning papers from London. In the Hogarthian hellhole of daily debauchery, this week's poster boy is Alfie Patten, a boy of four foot who looks eight but is actually 13 and last week became father to baby Maisie by his girlfriend Chantelle.

Or so he thought. Now three (at last count) additional swains have come forward claiming they've also been bonking Chantelle. Why would so many young lads be anxious to claim responsibility for some unwanted kid? Ah, well, there's a lot of tabloid money swilling around.

So young Alfie will now have to take a paternity test, which would seem to be the only test the lad has much chance of passing. Interviewed about his youthful fatherhood, he was asked whether he could cope financially. "What's 'financially'?" he replied.

In other news: "Archbishop Of Canterbury: Society Is Coming Round To My Views On Sharia."

02/16 06:13 PMShare