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Camilla is going to be hugely important to Charles , she went from the woman who the queen couldn’t bare to speak/see off to perhaps bar Sophie one of the closest in the family to her , she had done the near impossible of making herself the prob the most popular royal and has undertaken a lot of charity work , done without the ” look at me ” press of Diana , such a shame Charles and Camilla hadn’t married back in the 70s , she may well be the one to keep Charles on the right track
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“Anyway, how does a man cope when the entire planet suddenly goes full-on “Daily Mail” and you just know it’s a collective global condition that’s going to last at least a fortnight?”
Look on the bright side, Chezza. You can save on your electricity bill by not turning on the television or radio for the next fortnight. There’s only going to be one thing on, anyway.
Brilliant, Gladders – you’re so right.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Just watched the recording of yesterday’s race where the Queen’s final runner was beaten by a short head in the very last stride.
Can we nominate Sam Hitchcott as Villain Of The Year?
A good article from the Republican perspective:
Very much a rose amongst thorns that article. Good effort for someone trying to flog me a copy of ‘How Woke Won’, whatever that means.
The BBC seems to think every single viewer is a Daily Mail reader at times like this.
Clive Myrie did himself no favours yesterday.
I get what he meant – to journalists this is historically a bigger story than energy bill subsidy but the world has changed and it’s a failure to read the room.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Yeah well worded Ian, as sad as all this is the Queens death isn’t the reason I’ve been eating pasta every day for the past month and certainly can’t see myself upgrading to a takeaway any time soon.
While no monarchist I’ve never wished the family any harm.
However at this time of great sadness such views are inconsequential and I can only pass on condolences to the family.Yes Myrie is usually excellent but he did make some comment about the energy bills crisis being insignificant at a time like this which was badly judged. Yes it’s a sad event but millions of people struggling to put the heating on is far worse. The reporter he cut to was clearly a bit shocked by it.
Suspect that many BBC presenters know that the Mail et al are watching the entire BBC output like a hawk waiting for something ‘disrespectful’ to jump on.
Like most, I got caught up in channel hopping the news yesterday
Myrie was poor and appeared to be out of his comfort zone
He’s wasted as a desk-bound talking head and really should be an out-in-the-sticks reporter, which is his forte cf. his stint in Ukraine
The ever-unctuous Nicholas Witchell and snarly Huw Edwards get right on my pointy bits too
Sky News has for a good while been my news service of choice, with a bit of Al Jazeera for coverage of overlooked world news
Witchell is a perfect advert for that certain button oft deployed by one of our contributors here.
The then Prince of Wales was caught calling him an awful man or something similar some years ago which was rather amusing.
I thought this anecdote was brilliant:
My favourite story about the Queen… just lovely pic.twitter.com/xueTVRU7oB
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Totally agree with Richard and Drone – Clive Myrie is generally very good (and was outstanding in Ukraine) but he was badly-positioned yesterday and poor.
Royal correspondents generally have been prime mute button material for me for years and the current incumbent is no exception.
It’s sad when anyone of any age, race, gender or creed, colour, or religion dies, but we’re in for the mother of all disproportionate focus these next two weeks on one that died in Scotland yesterday.
As a Republican it’s going to be a long two weeks.
I hear he will be Charles III – Charles The Abdicator has a better ring to it to me.
The class system exemplifies everything that’s wrong with this country and there’s no better example of it than having a Monarchy.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Quite a balanced article there Drone. I thought Hugh Edwards had the right sort of look and gravity in his voice – better than a Dimbleby I thought. After about an hour and a half of watching two other long faces join him – I felt I was watching the three witches of Macbeth when Nicholas Witchel seemed to say…wait for it “it is a great sadness that Charles will now become king”, and I, watching from the back of the theatre, just could not suppress my mirth – so I was in for a further half an hour of hopeful gaffe time. After that, rather than phone suicide watch, I felt the occasion rather demanded some viscous, so I slipped out unseen because it is a forbidden practice, and then quickly returned in a dripping wet state for a brolly – it was bucketing down – to quote the first witch “In thunder in lightening and in rain”. I walked for half an hour, and got quite wet despite the brolly, and then slipped into a large Waitrose, again unseen, and walked for a further ten minutes exercising up and down the aisles in the dry, and then after passing the double figure spirits, I spotted the forlorn pair; a bargain bottle of red and a large packet of lightly salted crisps itching for company, and so there was I, spending my first royal tax – the sizeable sum of £7.50. I didn’t even demand an HMRC receipt.
I am a wet
Witchell is a perfect advert for that certain button oft deployed by one of our contributors here.
The then Prince of Wales was caught calling him an awful man or something similar some years ago
which was rather amusing.
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Richard, if my memory serves right, he (Charles) was caught on the mike whispering “I can’t bear
the man” and something like, he’s awful. I must admit it did make me laugh.Like many, I can’t call myself a Royalist, but I was surprised at the level of emotion it caused
in me. I genuinely will miss her a great deal. I cannot imagine any of the following entourage
encapsulating the same feeling.
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