[Byron]

"England more accepting" ?

On the whole yes but as The Bible says (or almost) the poor are always with us*. So it is with the bitchy gay fraternity who enjoy an OTT headline suggesting "getting even smaller". Never let the facts obscure a good story of course and websites such as that thrive on pieces approximating to Hollywood gossip columns (I shouldn't have have given them free publicity but they seem to have the monopoly on the Edinburgh pics).

Such are the vagaries of a showbiz career but I think TD has the mental stability to withstand it - after all he's not done bad at being his nation's speedoboy when not actually the best diver in the world.

(*off topic but a good book is The Other America by Michael Harrington)