Where Are They Now?

Ever wondered what happened to The Hood from Thunderbirds? No? Shame on you. Mysteries like that plague my waking hours - and even my dreams.

I mean, where is Lady Penelope these days? Lapdancing in Bradford? Shacked up in some lovenest paid for in Knightsbridge by Jeffrey Archer? What about Brains? Well, he's sure as fuck not working for this Government! Then there are the lads - Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon and John (in Thunderbird order, you notice)? I heard a rumour they were running a plumbing business in Southall but I can't confirm that.

Still, back to The Hood. The mystery is solved, thanks to Inspector Pither. Turns out that after he gave up trying to take over the world, the original Hoody decided that, in true "if you can't beat them, join them" style, he would take up a job offer from the best tyrannical madman of them all - Rupert Murdoch.

After a couple of years bumming around the world, fronting Murdoch's take over of virtually every media outlet in existence, creating strangling monopolies and moulding the minds on planet Earth to the whims of his far right master, he eased back a bit and settled for a job as a Sky News reporter.

A change of both name, to James Matthews, and "ooh-what-a-give-away" suit apparently hoodwinked (see what I did there?) everyone........except Pither. By outing him I imagine his days at Sky will be numbered but I understand he has a couple of opportunities in his back pocket, should such an eventuality arise.

My information is that he could either become Suella Braverman's personal development coach or join James Cleverley and Rishi Sunak in their ongoing efforts to get foreigners deported to unstable, violent countries with a history of human rights abuses and genocide.......ANYWHERE!