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Telegraph - The Fayed Book of Nursery Rhymes (Part II), by Craig Brown

Best this time:

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie phone his official spokesman
And say, those other boys, they did it,
I give you proof, we taking them to court.

and

Tom Tom the piper’s son
Stole a pig and away he ran,
The pig was eat and Tom was beat
But Tom’s official spokesman
Continued to insist that it
Was all an Establishment conspiracy.

So I also found this yesterday, while we’re on the subject of our favourite Paranoid Conspiracist:

Telegraph Blogs - Funny conversation at the Diana inquest, by David Blair (diplomatic editor)

Mr Mansfield: “Yes, I appreciate. May I make it very clear, Mr Fayed - an observation was made yesterday - has certain beliefs which he has made clear.

“He is plainly not a member of MI6 or, certainly, the establishment either. He has certain beliefs and I have never at any stage withdrawn any of his beliefs but you will see I have focused very carefully on elements of what he is suggesting that may be true; in other words, for which there is, forensically, evidence to support his beliefs. May I make it perfectly clear that this jury and you, sir, will not be just considering at the end of day in an inquest of this kind whether the beliefs as expressed by Mohamed Al Fayed are supported on every front. There are other possibilities.”

Lord Justice Scott Baker: “I am well aware of that.”

Mansfield’s words are extremely revealing. He is admitting that some of Fayed’s beliefs about the death of Princess Diana are unsupported by any evidence. As Fayed’s lawyer, he is carefully focusing only on “elements” of what his client has alleged.

A journalist covering this hearing might have summarised this as follows: “There is no evidence to support some of Mohammed Fayed’s claims about the deaths of his son and Princess Diana, his own lawyer admitted yesterday”.

Well now.