Essex born journalist Richard Littlejohn claims that the Royal Family are a “bunch of tax-evading adulterers” and argued that the police should have used flamethrowers on “militant homosexuals” protesting outside the House of Commons. Once voted “Irritant of the Year”, Michael Winner, who appeared with him on a show with two lesbians, commented: “The lesbians have come across with considerable dignity and you have come across as an arsehole”. “You couldn’t make it up”.