Civil partnerships? You're fired!

Iain Dale has posted a rather jolly description of his recent civil partnership HERE. Funnily enough, it was Iain and the subject of gay marriages that led, indirectly, to the only sacking of my career (so far!).

Iain and I worked together a few years ago when we produced The Politico, a quarterly magazine for Iain's bookshop Politico's. At the time I was also editing Freedom Today for the Freedom Association. Encouraged perhaps by my association with Iain (I was keen that the magazine should appeal to a wider audience, including Politico's more libertarian clientele), I commissioned and published an article promoting gay weddings.

Well, one thing led to another and a few months later I was fired. Following articles about sex and recreational drugs and interviews with the likes of Felix Dennis (heavily outweighed, I should add, by "traditional" articles about the EU, the monarchy and Gibraltar), the final indignity for readers of Freedom Today during my two-year editorship was being forced to read an interview with a pretty Cambridge student called Jess Hudson who featured on the cover and was best known for her love of, er, boxing.

For the record, I get on very well with my successor, Simon Richards, and current TFA chairman Roger Helmer is a very different animal to his predecessor. In fact, we will shortly be announcing a joint initiative for this year's Conservative party conference, so watch this space.