Right until the very end, Her Maj fulfilled her public duties. Throughout her reign, indeed, one of the essential ingredients was ‘business as usual’, or ‘keep calm and carry on’, whichever you prefer. It is one of the attributes that made her the monarch whose passing away so many mourn. Yet, in the face of all the cancellations and closures that have been announced, it is a characteristic that many seem to value little.
The queen has died and everything has closed: no hospital appointments for the increasingly desperate, trapped in the waiting list limbo, no opticians, no GPs-no surprise there, many shops closed .
Many years ago, I coined the phrase emotional incontinence as a suitable descriptor for this increasingly shrill, superficial , irrational way of conducting our struggling society.
Like many others, I respected her probity, her discretion and steadfast dedication to her role, but I have little time for the rest of the royals, although I dread to think what our future would be like, should President Johnson or Blair ever replace them.
William would probably be the one royal who could make a go of the monarchy, provided that the Royal Grant was substantially reduced a commitment to pay full income tax was secured, and the touchy-feely Harry +Meghan effusions curtailed
The dreadful emotional outpourings that we are continually subjected to - the grown men crying on TV when the make a cake or a pot, the people who get old stuff professionally repaired for free then weep emotionally. I think it started really with Princess Diana's death - the Queen of Our Hearts or some such as spouted by Tony Blair. Now we have people on Twitter telling dead people how much they are loved and flowers tied to railings and emotional outpourings for people we don't know. All whipped up into a frenzy of fake emotion. I don't know about the Queen probably having been a little embarrassed - the Duke of Wellington would have been disgusted (I believe he put a stop to the fashion for men to weep in public like ancient Greeks!).
Perhaps the lengthy mourning is for the Last Night Of The Poms?
Exactly
Great piece that resonates soundly with this Brit.
The queen has died and everything has closed: no hospital appointments for the increasingly desperate, trapped in the waiting list limbo, no opticians, no GPs-no surprise there, many shops closed .
Many years ago, I coined the phrase emotional incontinence as a suitable descriptor for this increasingly shrill, superficial , irrational way of conducting our struggling society.
Like many others, I respected her probity, her discretion and steadfast dedication to her role, but I have little time for the rest of the royals, although I dread to think what our future would be like, should President Johnson or Blair ever replace them.
William would probably be the one royal who could make a go of the monarchy, provided that the Royal Grant was substantially reduced a commitment to pay full income tax was secured, and the touchy-feely Harry +Meghan effusions curtailed
The dreadful emotional outpourings that we are continually subjected to - the grown men crying on TV when the make a cake or a pot, the people who get old stuff professionally repaired for free then weep emotionally. I think it started really with Princess Diana's death - the Queen of Our Hearts or some such as spouted by Tony Blair. Now we have people on Twitter telling dead people how much they are loved and flowers tied to railings and emotional outpourings for people we don't know. All whipped up into a frenzy of fake emotion. I don't know about the Queen probably having been a little embarrassed - the Duke of Wellington would have been disgusted (I believe he put a stop to the fashion for men to weep in public like ancient Greeks!).
https://babylonbee.com/news/seeing-outpourings-of-love-for-deceased-queen-biden-considers-dying-to-boost-approval-ratings
A good one from Babylon Bee
Good article. Sums up own views on this too.