It’s Not Your Average Garden Spider!

A terrified mother was left speechless after she found a tarantula the size of her hand scurrying across her front garden.

Sarah Rodmell, 30, spotted the enormous spider after she was alerted by builders who’d stumbled upon the eight-legged critter while carrying out renovation works on her home in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.

Despite being terrified of spiders, the mother of two nudged the curled-up critter, now thought to be an aggressive species native to South Africa, causing it to move.

She then courageously scooped up the tarantula into a container before moving it into the kitchen and calling reptile experts to come to take it away.

Ms Rodmell, who works in a school, said it was 9 am and the builders were doing work on the roof and they left some of their materials outside on the front.

She said they saw this thing on the front curled up, but they didn’t know what it was but as soon as they found out it was a tarantula they all stepped back.

She said that she kind of gave it a little nude and it got on its feet and started wiggling, so they got a box and they poked it into it. She said it was a bit surreal to see it chilling in a box in her kitchen, and every time she stepped into her kitchen, it was like ‘Oh my God, I’ve got a tarantula in my house’.

It was later established to be an Orange Baboon tarantula, which has an incredibly painful bite and is native to Angola and other regions of Africa.

Ms Rodmell’s 13-year-old daughter Kacie identified the creepie crawly after noticing the unique markings on its back.

Her three-year-old son Rudi decided to call the giant spider Dobby and begged his mum to keep the lost spider.

Ms Rodmell added that she’s terrified of spiders but she worked in a care home and they brought snakes and a tarantula in, so she beat her fears of them, but said that she wouldn’t be going near any other spiders anytime soon.

She said that thankfully Washington’s Relentless Reptiles in Loughborough collected the spider straight away, and then a man got in touch with her after she put it on Facebook that he’d lost an Orange Baboon tarantula a while ago.

She said he lived on the same street as her but moved house in July. Somehow it survived until now, he just couldn’t locate it, so it must have escaped, but who would want a pet which is notoriously aggressive in nature and is known to have an extremely painful bite?

I guess I’ve described the average human being, some dogs and presumably all cats, but it doesn’t prevent most from keeping them as pets or as human companions. Although, I must confess I don’t actually like seeing creatures like this in captivity.

The guy said that he lost his tarantula in a house move. Did he not think to warn the appropriate authorities seeing as it was dangerous or that at least it was missing? Clearly, this man wasn’t extremely responsible, and if people can’t look after or care for their pets properly and keep them safe and protected then they shouldn’t have them.

Tarantulas are lovely and extremely clever critters, but if one dashed across my front lawn, I’d have to leave the planet, and why are people allowed to import these critters, it’s not much life for them living in a tank, it’s almost like being in prison, so it’s not surprising they want to escape, and with Britain warming up they can now endure our environment.

COVID Pandemic Worsens Backlog For Cancer Treatment, Pushing Patients To Wait 55 Days

Figures show that the average wait for cancer treatment in Britain is 55 days, one week longer than two years ago, and the lengthy wait is leading to avoidable deaths and makes the United Kingdom one of the worst places in Europe to get the disease.

Waiting time is measured from when a patient is referred by a GP to when they start their first treatment in the hospital.

Some parts of the country have more extended waits than the 55-day average.

The United Kingdom came 33rd out of 41 developed nations for cancer mortality in 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found. Only Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Poland, Latvia, Slovakia and Hungary were worse.

The UK’s annual cancer mortality rate, of 216 per 100,000 people is the highest out of the G7 countries. Experts believe the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to survival rates declining for the first time in a generation.

In 2020, some 38,000 fewer people were diagnosed with cancer than in 2019.

Professor Sir Mike Richards, former cancer director at the Department of Health and now chairman of the UK national screening committee, told a newspaper outlet that across a spectrum of diseases, but especially in cancer, they offer a late diagnosis service in this country, and that needs to be tackled urgently.

He said that there are numerous factors, many of which were present long before the pandemic, but which were made worse by COVID-19.

Waiting times for vital CT and MRI scans have increased tenfold in the past three years, with about 300,000 patients waiting longer than six weeks for cancer tests in England, and in 2020, England performed 99 CT scans per 1,000 people compared with 113 in Spain, 150 in Germany, 196 in Denmark and 205 in Belgium.

Similarly, England performed 63 MRI scans per 1,000 people compared with 150 in Germany, 85 in Spain and 91 in Denmark. In the United Kingdom, approximately 167,000 people die from cancer every year.

Martin Marshall, head of the Royal College of GPs, said that the delays that they see in diagnosing cancer were a product of three factors, some related to patients, some related to the gatekeeper function of GPs and some related to the wider system.

Michelle Mitchell, from Cancer Research UK, said that delays of several weeks can often have serious implications in terms of prognosis and that early diagnosis and prompt treatment need to be a top priority for the Government.

That’s almost two months. Envision having cancer and sitting there for two months wondering if it’s spread because of the time wait. Wondering when you’ll get treatment, that’s mental torture. Wishing you were wealthy enough to get seen the next day, knowing that those with money will survive whilst you could die, it’s despicable.

The majority of us are enmeshed in a decreasing spiral as regards our living standards, long-term health and well-being. There’s simply no point trying to grow old now in the United Kingdom, but of course, that’s what our government want, they want us to all die extremely fast.

So, that’s a wait from the date of the decision on how to treat, this is surgery, radiation therapy, chemo et cetera, or a combination of all of them, but the actual wait from diagnosis might be much longer.

Now bang your pots and pans for the NHS! But it wouldn’t matter who ran the NHS or how much they ploughed into it. It’s a system that performs operations for gender new parts whilst cancer patients have to wait, and it needs to be changed to do what it was meant to do, instead of this mess it’s in now.

A PERMIT May Be Required For Oxford Drivers To Drive Across The City

Residents in Oxford may require permits to drive across the city centre if council plans get the go-ahead.

Under the proposal, which will be decided upon next month, households will be given permits permitting them to drive across the city 100 days per year per vehicle. Up to three permits will be allocated to each household, with one licence per person.

The system will be policed by ANPR cameras at traffic filter sites across the metropolis. Exemptions will be allocated for buses, delivery vans, HGVs, motorbikes and mopeds. A £70 fine will be charged to motorists without permits.

Duncan Enright, a county councillor overseeing the policy, said it was designed to cut local traffic and improve public transport journey times.

At the end of the trial, which could be extended up to a maximum of 18 months, Oxfordshire County Council will make a decision over whether to make the traffic filters permanent.

The restrictions, due to be introduced in August, will take effect between 7 am and 7 pm seven days a week in four of the six camera sites, but not on Sundays in the other two.

But one local resident criticised the permit scheme for being established on the pointless administrative borders of the City of Oxford rather than on distance or need.

Another commenting on a local newspaper report of the proposals pointed out that drivers already paid road fund licence to use the roads, adding that this was nothing but a means to make more money.

The cost of traffic filters is estimated to be £3 million and will be primarily funded by the bus service improvement plan grant. The county council’s consultation on the trial scheme closed earlier this month.

Its cabinet is expected to make a decision on November 29, but Mr Enright said he was confident colleagues would give it the green light.

Last year, Birmingham floated similar recommendations as part of its new transport strategy to reduce car journeys into and through the city centre. Schemes directing traffic to the ring road are already in place in the Belgian and Dutch cities of Ghent, Groningen and Leuven.

At the heart of the Oxford plan is a desire to ease traffic and make city living more enjoyable, boosting neighbourhood living where people walk or cycle within a 20-minute radius for everyday goods and services.

The city, home to BMW’s Mini factory, gave rise to Britain’s first full-time park-and-ride scheme in 1973. In February, Oxford introduced a pilot Ultra Low Emission Zone on a handful of city streets, with plans to extend the scheme across the entirety of the city centre.

However, it seems that the vast majority of people in Oxford don’t want this to happen.

The council have already put the low-traffic neighbourhood’s in place and it’s caused absolute chaos and gridlock, and this system will only add to the problem and turn car journeys that presently take 15 minutes into a journey that will then take an hour, so I’m not sure how this will reduce car emissions.

They will say that using public transport would be better, but when local bus companies are many drivers short and cancel many buses every day, it then leaves people stranded at bus stops, and then there are the extremely high rates of death and injury to cyclists.

Oxford was a once booming city and now the council are doing their best to destroy it, but then councils don’t work for the general public and we should know that by now.

Wicked And Sadistic

A close friend of Princess Diana has slammed Netflix as sadistic and Wicked over its portrayal of her last hours in the latest series of ‘The Crown’.

Simone Simmons, a friend of the late princess, was positively critical of the show’s decision to recreate the moments before Diana’s untimely death in a Paris car crash in 1997. The streaming giant’s fifth season of the programme airs on November 9.

It features haunting scenes showing the former Princess of Wales entering a limousine shortly before the fatal accident. Netflix insists it won’t recreate the crash in the latest series.

Ms Simmons told a newspaper outlet that these were cruel, sadistic and wicked people to recreate these moments and that they were the lowest of the low.

She said that they’re rewriting history as they go along and that’s what makes her so furious.

Ms Simmons went on to slam the flagship show as disgusting and sick and asked if they were setting out to hurt the feelings of Prince William and Prince Harry.

She said it’s forcing them to relive the pain, agony, and psychological torment they suffered when their mother died.

It’s expected the Prince of Wales may be outraged at scenes recreating his mother’s notorious 1995 interview with Martin Bashir, which was last year believed to have been acquired unlawfully after Bashir fabricated invoices to gain the princess’s trust.

Prince William, 40, later gave a public statement saying the interview had been a significant contribution to making his parent’s relationship worse and said it should never be aired again.

In a recent letter to a newspaper outlet, actress Dame Judi Dench described the forthcoming series of ‘The Crown’ as crude sensationalism and wickedly unfair to the Royal Family and suggested it should feature a disclaimer at the start of each episode.

She wrote that no one was a greater believer in artistic freedom than she was, but this could not go unchallenged.

She said the programme-makers have resisted all calls for them to carry a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode. The time has come for Netflix to reconsider, for the sake of a family and a country so recently bereaved, as a mark of respect to a sovereign who served her people so dutifully for 70 years, and to preserve their own reputation in the eyes of their British subscribers.

‘The Crown’ has been a massive hit for Netflix, and it now spends about £11.5 million per episode.

The fact remains that Prince Harry tears strips into the press regarding his mother, yet Netflix has to be silenced.

It will be extremely distressing for both William and Harry to watch their mother’s death recreated, although it is true that they don’t have to watch it if they choose not to, but the fact that it’s been recreated for TV is heartbreaking enough.

A lot of programmes like this make it clear that you’re watching a dramatisation of events, in other words, not a documentary, whereas ‘The Crown’ doesn’t make that distinction.

I must confess, it’s a really good series, particularly the first couple of seasons, and the portrayal of the Queen in a couple of series was extremely good, and the actress was amazing and recreated the role exceptionally well.

We know that some of the Royal Family have watched ‘The Crown’ and enjoyed it, but it’s a dramatisation, and I wouldn’t imagine it bares any resemblance to the truth.

Apparently, the Queen watched it on a Sunday night whilst playing it on a large projector. Camilla seemingly loves it. So, it doesn’t seem that many of the Royal Family are aggrieved by it, unlike most of the public who are getting hysterical about it and trying to defend those that really don’t need to be defended.

The Tory leadership Contest Is Over For Boris Johnson

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dropped out of the Tory leadership race and was met with a barrage of memes via social media.

Twitter users responded with hilarity at the news, following speculation about whether or not Boris Johnson had acquired the required 100 nominations from fellow Conservative MPs.

Only sixty-seven Parliamentarians were known for sure to have publicly supported the ex-Prime Minister, despite protestations from his supporters that he had further backers.

So, it’s happened. After all the different claims from the Boris Johnson headquarters, their man has dropped out of the latest Tory leadership race, and it looks like Rishi Sunak will effectively be our new Prime Minister.

Of course, it’s sad for Boris Johnson, but by a wide margin the best result for the country because the possibility of Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson going down to the wire was and is extremely alarming.

Now hopefully Britain has got what it sorely needs, a clear result, around which warring Tory factions can, with luck, settle and connect because a deal between the two contenders was never really on the cards.

Now scores of social media users have vowed to withdraw their Tory Party memberships after Boris Johnson bowed out of the race for No 10.

Some said they only joined the party because of Boris Johnson while others expressed their dislike for Rishi Sunak, who looks set to become the next prime minister.

One person wrote that they were revoking their membership. That they’d voted for Tory all their life but become a member of Boris Johnson and they were so disgruntled. Another said that Boris had dropped out and that they were no longer a Conservative voter.

A Scottish MP said Rishi Sunak will be just as bad for the people of Scotland after Boris Johnson pulled out of the race to become the next prime minister.

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford’s comments came as the ex-chancellor has been dubbed the favourite to top the ballot of MPs after Boris Johnson’s theatrical departure from the bid on Sunday evening.

The candidates for the election to replace Liz Truss will now potentially be solely between Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the House.

Commenting, the SNP’s Westminster leader said that no Tory Prime Minister can or will deliver for Scotland, and with his history of callous austerity from his time as chancellor we know Rishi Sunak will be just as bad as Boris Johnson was for the people of Scotland.

The monied men have already decided that Rishi Sunak is going to be Prime Minister, that’s why nobody else really stood a chance, but they don’t care about the common people, they just care about the money for them, and the British people didn’t vote for Rishi Sunak, and this just spells the end of the Tories.

Yes, Rishi Sunak is going to be the next Prime Minister, but he should be telling us how he’s going to deliver, and it will be cuts for the general population to suffer.

He will become the next Prime Minister, but the problem is people don’t trust him, and how can he know anything about poverty and what the general public is going through right now when his wife is worth a gigantic fortune? And he comes across as geeky, creepy and unrelatable.

I would have never voted Rishi Sunak in. I rather vote for the Raving Loony Monster Party.

Boris Johnson was a liar, and Liz Truss was catastrophically incompetent, and that’s all that the Tories are, and will continue to be, and they will also be a disaster for the economy.

The Death Certificate For Robbie Coltrane Lists Six Causes Of Death, Including Organ Failure

Comedy legend Robbie Coltrane died from a series of illnesses including multiple organ failure, his death certificate shows.

The 6 foot 1 Harry Potter star is understood to have been ill for some time, with other causes detailed including diabetes and obesity.

Robbie Coltrane celebrated for both his acting and his comedy, passed away eight days ago at the age of 72.

His death certificate gives both his professional name and the original birth name of Anthony Robert McMillan. He assumed the surname Coltrane in the 1970s in tribute to the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.

Other causes of death given were sepsis, where an infection triggers a severe response throughout the body, lower respiratory tract infection and heart obstruction.

A heart block occurs when the electrical impulses that regulate your heartbeat are delayed or thwarted.

Robbie’s death was registered by his ex-wife, Pilates instructor Rhona Gemmell, who he’d stayed close to after they split.

The dad of two appeared in movies including the crime drama ‘Mona Lisa’ with Bob Hoskins and Bond films ‘Golden Eye’ and ‘The World Is Not Enough’.

It’s heartbreaking that he was ill for a period of time before dying. He was a fantastic actor and will live on in that way, and he had a life well lived, and now he should be left in peace.

Sadly his conditions were ganging up on him, but still, he was a fantastic performer and he will eternally be replaceable, and it was an undeserved end for one who brought so much pleasure and gentle grace to his art.

Mum Forced To Tell Son, 10, She Can’t Afford Christmas Presents

A heartbroken mum has been forced to tell her 10-year-old son that she won’t be able to afford any Christmas presents this year due to the cost of living crisis.

Christine Borton, 48, was crushed when she had to tell her young son Dayjanta Samuels not to expect any presents on Christmas Day.

She said the lad already knew and wasn’t shocked as he was aware of the family’s desperate financial situation.

The single mum of three has been struggling to pay the bills since she was left unemployed due to medical reasons and lost her position as a support worker last year.

She’s been forced to survive on food banks and Universal Credit monthly handouts since April but said that it doesn’t cover her monthly bills.

Now Christine is facing further winter hardship as the cost of living crisis ramps up fuel and electric bills, leaving her short on cash.

The mum has chosen to sidestep buying gifts so she and her son can make it through the winter months.

Christine, who has two grown-up children and lives with Dayjanta in Wednesbury, West Midlands, said that life was difficult right now, and that she was unable to cover all her outgoings, and that she couldn’t cover her basic needs never mind presents.

She said that she told her son about four weeks ago. She told him there wouldn’t be any gifts and it broke her heart. She said he’d been looking forward to a Christmas present but he now realises it won’t happen, and she believes that he already knew, so wasn’t shocked.

She added that she’s extremely worried about the next few months and that her son keeps looking at the electric meter and keeps telling her how much they’ve used and that he’s obsessed about their finances all the time.

She said that a 10-year-old shouldn’t have to worry about that.

Christine, who is trying to get back into work, has now called on the government to better support struggling families during the winter, and she added that the only plan she has is to get a job, but she’s tried.

She said her bills are almost £1,200 and her Universal Credit doesn’t cover that. She said she’s not been shopping since January, and her freezer is empty.

She continued that she doesn’t think that the government actually cares. They have given a bit of money to help with energy, but what about gas? What about food?

It’s extremely sad what’s happening in this country right now, but splashing it all over the national newspaper isn’t going to help the poor boy. He will be a target for bullies and ridiculed. Many are in the same position this year.

Boris Johnson Accused Of Lying

The Tories hit a new low today as Boris Johnson was accused of lying in the undignified race for No 10.

As he flew back from his holiday in a frantic bid to muster support, Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer offered ‘serious, credible change’, saying that the Tories were unable to govern themselves.

Boris Johnson claims to have 100 MP supporters, but Tory MP Richard Holden said that they didn’t exist. Rishi Sunak has 113 backers and Penny Mordaunt has 23.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was engaged in a bizarre numbers game in the race for No 10, as he declared that he had the support of 100 MPs was rubbished.

His disbelieving adversary Rishi Sunak sent out a message to the effect of: ‘Prove it, mate”, and Sunak-backing MP Richard Holden went a stage further, by saying that they didn’t exist.

By late evening on Saturday, only 54 had publicly declared for the ex-PM and put it in writing in nomination papers.

Ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the bookies’ favourite at 2/5, had 113 confirmed backers while Commons leader Penny Mordaunt was trailing on 23 and, with a 33-1 shot, it may not make the final cut.

The Sunday Mirror revealed the ‘Bring Boris Back’ plot seven weeks ago.

MPs’ phones were red hot as each camp attempted to entice supporters away from the other. One Boris Johnson supporter said that they’d had several calls from Rishi’s people promising the earth if they switched sides.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told a newspaper outlet that the country was fed up to the back teeth with this Tory chaos.

He said that they’re furious and they want their voice, which is why we need a General Election now, and that it was time to put this country first, and the party second, and that the Tories were unfit to rule the country and unable to govern themselves.

He said that we don’t have to go on like this. That he leads a serious, credible, changed Labour Party with a strategy for economic stability, employment and development.

MPs are adamant that Boris Johnson must keep Jeremy Hunt on as Chancellor even though he was a Remainer and never got a job under Brexiteer BoJo.

The ex-PM has also been told to offer Rishi Sunak either Foreign or Home Secretary and rehire some of the 59 ministers who quit in July forcing Boris Johnson to resign. Ms Mordaunt is likely to become deputy Prime Minister whoever succeeds.

Electoral Calculus predicts that on recent polls the Tories would have just 48 MPs of the 365 they had in 2019 if an election was held tomorrow. That means they would face 507 Labour MPs, up from 203 now, and be behind the SNP on 52, making Nicola Sturgeon’s Scots Nats the official opposition.

The trouble with Boris Johnson is he’s a bit of a weasel, and a self-serving fibber, and he doesn’t have a heart or even care about the working people, the unemployed, old or vulnerable, just himself, and we really need a General Election.

And how can Boris Johnson come back when he was booted out? Well, unfortunately, it’s a closed vote and they can do whatever they want, unfortunately, and just as he was booted out he can be booted back in.

Boris Johnson lies, that’s what he does, he’s a natural, and it’s likely his only talent, and it’s exasperating that grown adults are lining up to be lied to again, and once a liar always a liar.

Storm Warning Issued By The Met Office

A yellow weather warning has been issued for large regions of Britain, with downpours predicted to bring as much as 60 mm of rain within a two to three-hour period.

The weather forecasters said that the storm would be accompanied by blustery winds and hail. Most areas will, however, see 10-20 mm of rain over a three-hour period.

The locations impacted include the West Midlands, the East of England, London and South East England, South West England, Wales and Yorkshire and the Humber.

The Met Office warned that lightning and flooding could lead to road closures, as well as delays and cancellations of public transport.

They reported that a band of heavy rainfall would drive northwards through Sunday morning, pursued by scattered heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms during the afternoon and that further heavy rain and thunderstorms were likely during Sunday evening and night, especially across eastern parts of England, easing later.

Evidently, 10-20 mm of precipitation is likely in 1 to 3 hours in multiple locations, with 30 mm in a few places through the morning. However, where thunderstorms transpire during the afternoon, evening and overnight, there’s a slight possibility of 20-30 mm falling within an hour and as much as 60 mm in 2-3 hours, along with lightning and a possibility of blustery winds. This will most probably happen across the eastern regions of England.

The agency said there was a slight risk of local flooding from surface water across the south and the east of England and the Midlands, and they added that lands, roads and some properties may flood and there may be travel disruption.

It comes as the Environment Agency urged people in the Swindon region to be prepared for potential flooding after water levels rose significantly in the River Cole following heavy rain on Friday.

They said that property flooding was not currently anticipated, but said that river levels were elevated but constant on the River Cole following extremely heavy rainfall in the Swindon region.

It was said that river levels were below the flood risk threshold on Dorcan Brook, and therefore, flooding of low-lying land, footpaths and roads was expected to persist, particularly in the Covingham area of Swindon.

They said that further showers were likely, clearing overnight and that they were closely observing the situation, and that their incident response staff had been in the area removing weed and trash scenes and would continue to monitor over the weekend.

So, it’s going to be a bit wet and windy, with all these amber alerts. Years ago we would just grit our teeth and just get on with it, and before that people would just chew coal for dinner and keep their coats on the bed to keep warm, and the snow was so deep that when you opened the front door it would end up inside the house, and of course, a hot meal was a mustard sarnie. People today don’t know how good they’ve got it.

Of course, this will help to top up Britain’s drought from the summer months – won’t need a hosepipe ban now!

Working Royals Are Not To Be Cut Further By The Conservative King Charles

Sources close to Charles have said he has no plans to decrease the number of working royals from the current 11, more than any of the other European monarchies. His decision is one of several that demonstrates a desire to be much more conservative than many anticipated and also follow his late mother’s approach.

It comes despite signals from within the Palace that he wants a slimmed-down coronation next year, costing taxpayers less to reflect the economic challenges facing Britain.

In his first 45 days on the throne, the 73-year-old monarch has won acclaim for his more informal touchy-feely approach to the job, but he’s closely followed the late Queen in other ways.

Charles, for example, is set to stop declaring how much tax he pays on the grounds that his mother, who started paying voluntarily in 1993, never published a summary of her payments.

The King, who as Prince of Wales felt he should set an example on transparency, paid £5.8 million tax on an income of £23 million income from the hereditary Duchy of Cornwall estate last year.

Aides have said that, although the plans still have to be finally signed off, the intention is that he will pursue Queen Elizabeth’s approach, and Prince William, as the new Prince of Wales will for the first time publish details of his tax bill.

The question is part of a much wider Palace review underway into how the monarchy will operate. With fewer generations of working royals, aides believe it will be hard for the family to undertake as many as 3,500 engagements around the country and the globe.

The family and their advisers are considering what happens to many of the scores of organisations once represented by a royal patron whose presence can help raise funds and bring awareness to causes.

One senior royal source said that these are things that are all being looked at as part of a more comprehensive review at the moment and that William and Kate, the new Prince and Princess of Wales may be able to take on some new patronages and expand their workload.

Kate, in particular, has made it clear that, while she’s passionate about matters such as giving children a more promising start in life, looking after her own children is her primary priority right now.

Before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit in March 2020, some Palace officials had predicted that there would be no role for the King’s siblings when the reign changed.

Most countries just manage with an elected President, and then members of the President’s family, possibly their spouse may accompany them to functions or on visits.

I thought that I would have been more awed by Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, but in fact, I was a tad discomfited by it all because it went on too long and it was a bit over the top.

It had too many imperial overtones and was a tad condescending to the grief-stricken people who weren’t even that grief-stricken.

I’m not even sure we were supposed to be that impressed by rituals made up in the 19th century to compete with those splendours made up for the Napoleonic monarchies, and I suppose that the Coronation may get a flawed response, especially if the ominous projections for British poverty manifest over the winter, and the Royals may need to tread carefully as it wouldn’t take much to trigger an antagonistic response.

And I actually couldn’t understand the outpouring of grief when Queen Elizabeth passed away, it was ridiculous, just as it was for Princess Diana. It wasn’t like they personally knew her, and it was nothing but mass hysteria for somebody they didn’t even know.

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