William Hague is trying to justify his role as a part-time Shadow Foreign Secretary by claiming that having outside interests makes him a better politician:

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
That is my personal view, and I think it has made me a better politician having these interests than I was before.

Yes, some outside intersts will do that. Some. A couple of hours a week, an external interest of …

To be honest, I doubt it since he appears to be happily married. However, neither would I care if he was.
But it would appear that at least one person did, since someone typed that search term into Google.

is william hague gay?

And ended up at this blog.
When I see referrals in my logs with search questions like that, I just have to wonder what the hell is going through the minds of certain people.
Especially considering a couple of the ones I spotted last year. And the fact that I keep seeing …

Tony Blair would be President of the EU, but only if they give him enough power. This is one good reason for Gordon Brown to fight giving the EU power [or at least the President role], as Blair being President of the EU would be his nightmare.
This is a perfect reason to re-post William Hague’s speech in the EU (Amendment) Bill in which he paints the picture of Brown receiving Tony Blair as “Mr President”…

Watch the video of Hague’s hilarious demolition of Gordon Brown in his speech on the EU (Amendment) Bill below [via Harry Hook].
Or read the text here at Daily Referendum.
Even Miliband can’t help from laughing!

David Cameron and the Conservative Party are calling for Brown to “stop dithering” about whether or not to call an election, and effectively tells him to ‘bring it on’. At the same time, William Hague says at the conference in Blackpool that “the Conservative Party is ready, it is hungry for victory and if Gordon Brown ever summons up the courage to call an election we are going to beat him.”
The polls appear to say the opposite, giving Brown leads of 7-11 points – if the election was tomorrow, of …

Charles Kennedy, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, forced out because he was – and had been for years – an alcoholic, is refusing the rule out a return to front-line politics and challenging Ming the Merciless the doddering old fool Campbell for his old job. His reply to the question “Are you going to be the comeback kid?” was:
When you have been the leader of a national political party obviously you know what is involved, you are still of an age where you have got something to contribute, …