With Love from Me to You!..

The Letter below is to be read as part of this event, at the James Taylor Gallery in London Especially written for the attending audience the sentiments can easily be transferred to you my dear readers. The letter will be read in my absence by the beautiful Cinzia Cremona.

"My Dear Sweet Darlings, I send you this letter from my lofty locale with the intention of communicating my heartfelt affection for you. The select and precious few here now present are hoping to learn more about the nature of love. Love is a complex and contradictory conundrum which baffles and befuddles even the most academic and enlightened of you.

Some theorists have supposed that what is needed to maintain a true and unending love is the temporary suspension of your mutual disgust. It is this cunning trick of evolution that enables you to ignore the hideous deformities that undoubtedly fester on the faces of your nearest and dearest, this temporary suspension of clarity enables you to fornicate wildly to the point of climax whilst happily overlooking the repugnance of your lover.

Though the admiration I have for you is not the base lust of body and form but of a higher love for your deeply buried and mysterious potential, I am miraculously able to ignore the filth of your cities, that over flow with the wrappings of the endless junk that you greedily stuff into your gaping mouths. I do not gaze upon your pavements which are smeared with the faeces of your canine companions. Your track-suited offspring that run a muck; spreading hate through your crumbling streets do not attract my attention. I can forgive the minority of you that are filled with hate and anger and rage as I see that this is the opposite of your truest selves.

Instead in my distant remoteness I am able to see you clearly, more clearly than you see yourselves. The mundane and banal details of your life do not interest me, I only see the fullness of your potential, I see only the gleaming possibility shining from your curious eyes. I in my unending wisdom am able to turn my head away from the innumerable base functions of your bestial selves and instead gaze upon the purity that you once possessed.

In listening to these words written by an embodiment of glamour that you can barely comprehend you must wonder what you have done to deserve such generosity from such a distant and beautiful soul. All you really need to know is that I am a better version of you. I have insight and knowledge of your world that can only be gleaned by being desired and vilified simultaneously. I have been celebrated and chastised by your sickening culture and as a result am able to view your world from within and above.

I am Ms Coco LaVerne a fledgling glamour-puss and international Icon ready willing and able to bring back beauty and purity of heart. Despite my overwhelming revulsion for the human race I suspect that you are amongst the few illuminated souls who seek solace in the knowledge that you are now, no longer alone. I hope that with my unending and sincerest love I will enable you to take control, aspire to be more, to be more beautiful, to be more elegant, as I believe that to be true personifications of humanity one must project an image of serenity and calm, of wisdom and harmony, of understanding and tolerance.

My Dearest Darlings, believe that despite your many patent fallibilities and your occasional indifference that I, Ms Coco LaVerne will be a constant unyielding source of wisdom, tolerance and support.

With Love the Incredible Ms Coco LaVerne."

Occasionally Words are Unnecessary!

Nick Griffin

The Gately Issue

My Dearest Darlings, Stephen Gately's untimely passing and the reaction to this unfortunate event has caused a colossal furore in the press, a controversy that you could hardly have missed, based mainly on the rather inappropriate musings of Jan Moir; the dissection of which I shall spare you, as I am sure by now you have all patronised the Daily Mail's website and read the piece for yourself. Unlike you, it does not surprise Ms Coco LaVerne that the Daily Mail chooses to employ those that are slightly less gifted than I in the commentaries of your culture, though to you it seems like a 'slap in the face' that a well known conservative newspaper chooses to promote conservative views.

Ms Moir naturally defends her words and promises that she is not a homophobe though of course these matters are not that simple. The article reveals ignorance and is guilty of huge sweeping generalisations, which are distasteful and perhaps even offensive though the reaction to it's content has been undoubtedly fuelled by Twitter and FaceBook which has enabled an unprecedented amount of complaints. Complaints that would hardly have arisen if on-line petitions were not so easy to contribute to.

The problem with a dominant largely white heteronormative society is that anything outside of it appears to transcend what is considered the 'norm'. The ignorance her article demonstrates is that your own popular culture is fundamentally unable to comment on any version of 'the other' intelligently. In her article Ms Moir infers that to be gay is by default somehow sleazy and unnatural. She of course forgets the sexual objectification of women for millennia by heterosexual culture, she forgets the overwhelming majority of 'sleazy' abuses and insults on your world that have been initiated by the heterosexual white male powers that continue to dominate your civilisation.

She surmises that something sexually provocative was going on in the apartment in which Gately died, and this lifestyle in some way was to blame for this young man's death as if deviance from the norm should be punishable by death. Your culture is so hypocritical that it chooses to punish the members of it that visibly transcend the 'norm' despite the fact that those that are included in this 'norm' are far more likely to be associated with scandalous and immoral behaviour, a mere glance at the numerous scandals of the members of your parliament would be testament to a supposed 'sleazy' lifestyle. Though an M.P.s scandal does not result in the demonisation of heterosexuality rather an attack on the party to which they are affiliated. There are undoubtedly some 'sleazy' gay men whose debauched lifestyle would shock the most unshakable, though this is just as true of any group. The heterosexual practice of so-called 'dogging' has not created a surreptitious campaign against all straight men. It has not thrown into question the institution of marriage. Though a couple of high profile and unfortunate endings to gay civil partnerships has garnered much questioning due to it's new and problematic position in your society.

I do not blame you for your lack of complex thinking on this issue as I realise complex thinking is not your most prominent of traits. Though the reaction to Ms Moir's article also raises one of my perfectly formed eyebrows in your direction: it seems that the liberal left have conveniently jumped on the chastisement bandwagon in regards to this particular display of veiled homophobia. Though It is not simply the insidious and subtle homophobia that has been the cause of this frenzy, the main motivation for the demonstration against this unpleasant article has been your fetish for the 'sacred' celebrity. Unless a celebrity is involved other everyday forms of homophobia go unnoticed from the unfortunate appropriation of the new meaning of 'Gay' (equalling crap) to the apparently harmless suggestion that all gay men are fascinated by interior design and Liza Minelli and that all lesbians are dungaree wearing pool players. These damaging stereotypes perpetuate reductive ideas of homosexuality which create a climate in which homophobia can flourish. Non-Celebrity gay men and women around the world continue to be brutally murdered as a result of their sexuality though this rather unpalatable truth barely makes your news headlines, as this shocking reality conflicts with the modern notion that the liberal elite have rather cleverly created a smug and beautiful world of acceptance and tolerance.

Those that continue to believe in this liberal propaganda believe that ill-informed and out-dated assumptions regarding gay lifestyles of their perhaps loved gay friends and relatives do not damage, as the world is at last safe for 'The Gay'. The truth is, that gathering any 'type' together reduces all members of that group to a stereotype, a simplification which reduces complex individual members of communities to the most simplest of readings.

The only benefit of this sorry saga is that perhaps debates on the complexities of prejudice can take place.

My advice is do not read the Daily Mail.

Much Love Ms Coco LaVerne x

The Children

(Above) Bettina von Zwehl: Profiles III No 4 © Bettina von Zwehl

My Dearest Darlings, I have noticed a problem with your perception of childhood. This is not the same perception that I have noticed before when speaking about Britney Spears and her precocious sexuality though this most recent diagnostic has been sparked by a furore surrounding the recently opened 'Pop Life' exhibition at Tate Modern. The controversy surrounding the Richard Prince piece 'Spiritual America' may have passed some of you by, though the story has been covered world-wide both in the print media and on-line. The piece is described as a 'rephotograph' of an earlier photo by Garry Gross who for some reason best known to himself chose to depict this particular ten year old girl in a disturbingly sexual way: Naked, emerging from a bath with a face full of bordello style make-up the image is truly unsettling. Resembling a chimera of child and adult the image is seared onto my mind like a griddle to a steak. Disgust and abhorrence the only response I can muster.

Though this physical reaction to what can only be described as sanctioned paedophilia in the context of art is and should be challenged by the society that creates it and I have formed some suppositions regarding this image. Unsurprisingly the work has been removed from the exhibition to which it belonged, as it was seen to contravene decency laws. The ensuing scandal has led to outrage from most factions and as usual the easiest conclusions have been jumped to. Many right-wing commentaries are suggesting that art should not dabble and flirt with such material and should be limited to the exploration of beauty and pleasantness. The left perhaps rightly claiming that this censorship prevents exploration of complex and sensitive issues. As it is Art is potentially the last vestige able and willing to explore any issue beyond that which lies beyond the limitations of your mainstream media. Ironically the outrage expressed has possibly exposed this image to many more than would have ever seen it, thus the intended protection garnered by the removal of the actual photograph has created a new interest in this most alarming of sights.

Aside from the obvious issue of the glamorisation of paedophilia the image starkly emphasises the inability your culture has to discuss childhood without hysteria. From my position your children seem able to sit in just a few stereotypical positions, either they are gun-toting, knife-yielding yobs, precocious sexualised teenagers or at constant risk from herds of paedophiles and bogey-men. This over-exaggerated and media sensationalist 'risk' has warped your notion of childhood and has compromised the experience your children have in their journey to adulthood.

Your children are lost, when once a child lived in quiet awe around the 'grown-ups' they have become unable to comprehend the once ubiquitous respect that was once denoted to the adult world. The obvious reason for this problem is that your lily-livered liberal left and woeful and decrepit working classes have ordained your children with responsibilities far beyond the capabilities of their barely formed minds. It is impossible to avoid your tiny tots being asked to offer their opinions on the most mundane of subjects, to their preferred menu items in a restaurant to the political complexities of when best to leave a social engagement. When once a child ate when it was told, and obediently followed it's carers from here to there, now they are at the centre of their tiny universe. What's wrong with that? I hear you bellow, well the problem with that is that these children develop no respect for the mystery of how to behave in the modern world, they are not encouraged to consider the opinions of anyone other than themselves and this results in a total and complete lack of respect for society and it's adult members. You have deemed your child as master, as centre of your broken world. (Above)Hollie Steel breaks down crying half-way through her song on the final show of Britain's Got Talent

This has led to a dismantling of children's position in society. Your children perceive themselves as mini-versions of you, and expect to gain the same privileges you do. This of course leads to younger and younger 'tweenies' making demands on a culture that they do not understand and it is at this point that these vulnerable and precious youngsters are catapulted into your culture. Demanding sexual liberation and instant fame on whatever reality TV show. They are all of your ambition without any of your humanity. They are all you desire without any of your maturity. And so these once tiny bundles of joy become tight knots of confusion, desperate to please the greedy adults that are so keen to exploit their inappropriate goals.

The image of Brooke Shields is this twisted desire incarnate irrespective of the obvious sexual element the photograph reveals the cultural destruction of childhood. In contrast to this is the striking work of Bettina von Zwehl (top) currently on view at V&A's Childhood Museum, these large format photographic prints create two dimensional monuments to your babies, free of sexual allusion the one year old's are depicted as astute and sentient potential adults in the context of a museum of childhood these images seem all the more poignant in a place that attests to the preciousness of your children without sensationalist sexual or prurient connotation.

So My Darlings treat your children as children dissuade them from premature development, you may believe this is impossible in today's media saturated mire but each of you has a responsibility to protect and educate your offspring in the complexities and pitfalls of society without perpetuating the warped views of the media that constructs it.

Much Love Ms Coco LaVerne x