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The right to write. Just as I am entitled to have my own website and write about stuff that I have a certain knowledge of, namely politics, sport and oh yes, heart transplants, as long as I do not libel anyone or write lies about people, I think in a democracy I have the write to right (yes I know it's the wrong way round, it's the tablets you know). If people choose to read what I have to write about, again in a democracy, that is their choice. I started my website thinking I would inform people who had an interest in transplants in general and heart transplants in particular. I came to the conclusion very quickly that my site would look like a lot of others covering the subject of transplantation and would become lost in the world wide web. I would not want to visit a site if all it talked about was heart transplants and medical stuff, unless I was a trainee doctor, because I would consider that to be extremely boring. I can hyperlink you to some boring websites - again that is your choice. As I am well qualified to write about life post transplant and believe I can convey a positive message to potential donors, which every reader is, I will continue with my site. However, I reserve the right to write about other subjects on which I have an opinion - and there are plenty. I feel it gives my site a little extra appeal to visitors and shows the flaws in my character through my prose. I consciously try not to convey a political or religious bias but reserve the right to play devil's advocate and be thought provoking and, I hope, sometimes funny, or should that be amusing? Obviously, I have given some background about my life pre transplant and events leading up to my heart attack and subsequent heart transplant. I continue to update my readers on my medical problems / progress via my 'Red Book(s) pages and inform as to my activities through my "golf chat / 'Togs' / News Diary" page, and generally record what I have been up to. If you are not interested there is a little cross in the top right hand corner of the screen which just needs a click from your mouse and you're out of here quicker than Alex Ferguson's temper. (Oops, sorry Sir). What then, you are asking yourself, is this page all about? Paul Burrell, the ex butler to Diana, Princess of Wales, that is what this column is all about. I can honestly say that I have not read one single sentence about his book which he is currently promoting courtesy of the BBC / Sky News / ITV / The Daily Mirror / The Sunday Times and every other media outlet in the free world. From what I have seen of him on TV I think he is a bit odd, but he is a married man with children of his own. He is entitled to provide for his family and from what I can remember he was a whisker away from being locked up in the Tower of London. It was only on the day before, or was it the actual day? of his trial for theft of Diana's possessions that Elizabeth Windsor, aka The Queen, came to his rescue. As she suddenly remembered that he had in fact told her he was in possession of said items. I take a few drugs to keep me alive and one of the major side effects of all my medication is my terrible ...er...er...memory. Even I think I would have remembered something as important as this, especially as failure to do so would put an innocent man behind bars as a 'not so common' criminal. I do not think he is breaking any law by writing this book, many other ex employees of the Crown have done so before, and I expect many more will do so in the future. So I cannot see what the problem is to be honest. It could of course be that he makes certain (to coin a phrase) 'senior royals' and their favoured employees look to be sly, duplicitous, possibly the speakers of untruths and worse still criminals. Neither wonder they do not want the book published. Possibly if they had come forward at the time of Mr Burrell's greatest need the book may never have been started in the fist place, we can only speculate. Anyway the book is now in the public domain and I for one will not be reading it. In a perverted sort of way I hope these 'senior royals' keep badgering Mr Burrell and conduct covert operations against him, in a way that will see him discredited, in their eyes at least. The result will be a second book, ha ha ha! What do you think? Go to my 'Feedback' page and let me know.
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