Just The Ticket!

All local and regional bus fares in England could be capped at £2 this autumn.

Prices could be slashed for six months from October, with bargain rates for cross-country journeys of up to 80 miles and lasting more than three hours.

Downing Street has reportedly been working on the scheme since April but it’s not known if a new prime minister will affect its introduction.

The project comes amid skyrocketing fuel prices, with the price of filling up, increasing by £9 last month.

A source told a newspaper outlet that the importance of an eye-catching enterprise like a £2 flat fare is that the government can get behind it and say that they’re supporting people over the winter.

Bus services in England are presently more costly and less regular than in London, where pay-as-you-go fares are £1.65 if made within an hour.

It means an 80-mile journey from Peterborough to Norwich could be cut from £12 to £2, and a comparable length trip from Leeds to Whitby could be decreased from £19.

A Department for Transport spokesman said he wouldn’t comment on speculation, but he said in a statement that they’ve already committed to investing £3 billion into bus services by 2025, to improve fares, services and infrastructure, and given almost £2 billion since March 2020 to bus operators and local authorities to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic.

The primary goal is to decrease the cost of travel in rustic areas and to city centres from outer suburbs, for commuting, shopping, relaxation and school journeys, but there will also be big bargains on more extended journeys.

The price cap will reportedly not apply to long-distance scheduled coach services, and will also not apply to Scotland and Wales.

Bus price caps of £2 to start in the autumn have already been announced by the Labour mayors of West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region.

They’re expected to last three years and are aimed at helping urban commuters.

Bus travel has been in long-term decline since the 1950s, and half the population take the bus less than once a year.

However, the sudden and dramatic growth in petrol prices means numerous drivers are likely to seek alternative ways of getting to work and travelling locally.

This is a great idea as long as the buses are frequent, but in some areas, there’s only one bus an hour.

At the moment even taking a two-stop journey, less than 1km costs something like £4.95, it’s madness. It’s no surprise that people don’t want to use the buses when it’s so costly, and what about trains? The United Kingdom appears to be the only developed country where long-distance train travel is basically unaffordable.

And why are the Government doing it in October? Why don’t they just do it now?

The reason why is because Boris Johnson has quit, so essentially this will never be a thing, but bus fares are outrageously high and if OAPs and the disabled didn’t get free bus rides none of them would be able to afford to travel and they would be stuck in their homes, so public transport needs to be improved.

However, they should also be doing this for train journeys as well because it seems strange to just have it for bus travel alone.

People need help in rural areas as well because buses don’t operate much in these places and if they do then it’s one bus every 2 hours, and in some areas, if there are two of you it works out more affordable to get a taxi than a bus.

After Telling Santander Staff He Was A G4S Guard, Clever ‘Bank Robber’ Walks Out With £150,000 In Cases

A thief posed as a G4S security guard to fool bank staff into giving over money boxes with £150,000 inside.

The criminal walked into a Santander’s Brixton branch in a uniform kitted out with both helmet and visor, although sources claimed it wasn’t even a G4S uniform.

The man reportedly showed a fake ID and took two boxes at once, which is against regulation.

A source told a newspaper outlet that it’s being called the Noah’s Ark job because the cash boxes went out two by two.

Another source said questions had to be asked as they claimed the uniform wasn’t even a G4S one.

The criminal may have had a getaway driver waiting to rush him away from the scene in south London.

Staff at the Santander branch only became worried it was a con when the thief didn’t return to sign for the six boxes that had £25,000 each in them.

Although the money boxes have coded dyes that would soak the bank notes if anyone unauthorised accessed them, the criminal may have had inside help to get past this barrier.

Police have been questioning staff and examining CCTV of the suspect. Santander is working with the police on the matter.

This was a cunning criminal, but you’ve got to almost admire him for his arrogance, and how foolish were Santander staff because just a quick phone call to his company to check would have told them that he was a con man.

This dude just strolled into the branch with a fake ID, yet you can’t open a simple account and deposit money without an appointment, ID and your life history.

It looks like the staff were to blame for this one. They know the routine, but they didn’t observe it.

Bank staff have to do numerous checks before they even let the man into the area where they would give him the boxes, and if any one of those checks fails they call the police straight away, so how on earth did this happen?

I didn’t realise that Santander was giving money away which was a tad foolish of them seeing as there was no collection scheduled. Now that’s what you call great customer service.

Clearly, this was extremely well planned in advance, although this guy just strolled in there and took the cash straight from their hands. It does make you wonder about the level of intelligence of the staff because Santander clearly doesn’t employ the sharpest tools in the box.

Generally, money talks and BS walks. On this occasion, BS talks and money walks.

Technically he didn’t even rob the bank. The fools just gave him the cash and he just strolled out of the bank. He was brazen, to say the least, but at least nobody got hurt.

University Chiefs Ban Students And Academics From Using Terms Such As ‘Mankind’, ‘Millennials’, And ‘Manpower’

The Universities of Bristol and Nottingham have reportedly banned words like ‘mankind’ and ‘millennial’ to avoid causing offence, while terms such as ‘manpower’ are to be replaced with ‘workforce’.

Woke chiefs at the Russell Group schools fear that everyday expressions contribute to stigmas and can have negative associations it was reported by a newspaper outlet.

At Bristol, students and faculty have allegedly been told to replace the term ‘manning’ with ‘stationed’, while’ able-bodied’ people should now be called ‘non-disabled’.

The 146-year-old university, which counts celebrities like Simon Pegg, David Williams and Matt Lucas as alumni, has also asked that generational monikers like ‘boomers’ and ‘millennials’ be avoided.

As part of its style guide, ‘humankind’ should also replace ‘mankind’, while ‘workforce’ should be used instead of ‘manpower’.

In its writing style guide on its website, under ‘specific terminology’, it reads: ‘Avoid using generational labels (‘Generation X’, ‘Baby Boomers’, ‘Millennials’) where possible, and that it could reinforce negative stereotypes, and the words were not easily understood, especially by some international audiences.

It adds when writing about people in older age groups, the term ‘older people’ is generally preferred and that words like ‘senior’, ‘middle aged’, ‘elderly’, ‘pensioner’, ‘OAP’ or ‘senior citizen’ should be avoided.

Meanwhile, at Nottingham, phrases such as ‘the request fell on deaf ears’ or ‘blind spot’ are now considered out of touch for potentially ‘associating impairments with negative things’.

Words like ‘lame’ and ‘stupid’ are also now discouraged.

Bristol Uni agrees, as its style guide reads: ‘Avoid slang that associates a disability with a negative trait, such as ‘falling on deaf ears’, ‘turning a blind eye’ or ‘the blind leading the blind’.

The guide adds: ‘Use the term ‘non-disabled’ rather than ‘able-bodied’ if you need to describe people without disabilities’.

Tory MP Nigel Mills told a newspaper outlet that free spe

Tory MP Nigel Mills told the Sun: ‘Free speech really is at risk because of these ridiculous ideas.’

Both universities were contacted by a newspaper outlet. Bristol refused to comment.

It comes after the University of York faced ridicule when it slapped a trigger warning on one of its archaeology courses, warning students they might see photos of human remains.

The bizarre flag was placed on its Communicating Archaeology module which starts in September.

Department heads risked being accused of patronising its budding Indiana Joneses over the warning of content surely expected on a course of its nature.

Now it seems that our children and young people are being brainwashed by their woke teachers, and will all our dictionaries and thesauruses be burned because the English language is transforming, so is there a new edition that we’re not aware of?

Words are being burned in front of our very eyes and we’re doing nothing about it, and this appears to be the UK’s version of the book burning in 1930s Germany, and we should be protesting and be as relentless as the woke because this idiocy needs to stop, and when will the sheep stop blindly following these loons?

What right has anyone in a position of power have the ability to determine what terms of speech should be permitted? They should be named and shamed and then removed because it’s a disgrace to our history of freedom.

These are not places of education but indoctrination.

And these people who make these decisions, are we allowed to call them ‘dicks?’ Or is that not politically correct? Or do we just call them ‘genitalia’ from now on?

By manipulating language they control thought. If they control thought then they control action. If they control action then they control the world and we are indeed living in extremely dangerous times!

EXCLUSIVE: Another Work Do For Downing Street?

Boris Johnson was pictured laughing and joking last night as he canoodled with a bunch of elites on a Whitehall patio just hours after he announced his resignation.

The disgraced Prime Minister was seen hobnobbing with several coworkers and officials, giving out hugs and cracking jokes as the party drowned their collective sorrows on a balcony behind Dover House.

The ambience was light and friendly, according to witnesses, with the assemblage quickly gathering pace as the evening drew on.

One said it definitely wasn’t commiserations, they were in fine spirits as the group were spotted while attending a military band concert held on Horse Guards Parade a stone’s throw away from Dover House and Downing Street.

They said Boris Johnson gave someone a hug. It looked like a bad day at the office, let’s have a drink and cheer up, and they were laughing and chatting on the terrace.

They said it started just after 7 pm when Boris Johnson went inside and the party appeared to be in full swing.

Meanwhile less than half a mile away, several of the cabinet ministers and government officials whose resignations and criticism hastened the Prime Minister’s downfall enjoyed some schmoozing of their own at The Spectator’s summer bash.

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak and his successor Nadhim Zahawi, who accepted the position on Wednesday, then publicly told the Prime Minister to resign less than 24 hours later, were among those pictured in attendance at the grand press party on Old Queen Street, a mere 500 yards away from the Prime Minister’s gathering.

Ex housing and communities secretary Michael Gove, who was promptly sacked upon calling for the Prime Minister’s resignation, and former health secretary Matt Hancock also rocked up to the party whose guest list also included top political journalist Laura Kuenssberg and chairman of The Spectator Andrew Neil.

It comes as Tory MPs begin competing for Boris’ premiership in what’s set to be a painful shootout for the right to succeed the outgoing Prime Minister.

The friendly atmosphere displayed by Boris Johnson and co on the Dover House patio last night didn’t reflect the mood which hung in the air in Downing Street hours earlier.

Boris Johnson’s team were said to be in tears as the Prime Minister ultimately admitted he had run out of options, while the Conservative leader himself was said to have been optimistic rather than enraged upon realising they had tried everything around 8.30 am yesterday morning.

Boris Johnson clearly didn’t play a straight bat greeting the job, and he made sure he had his own people around the Cabinet table, but his version of reality became too much for them, with their constituents bearing the brunt of decline and collapse.

He is a disgrace, he broke the law, he lied to the Queen, lied to parliament and now he’s been forced out of his job because he lied again, but of course, after this Boris Johnson will be drowning in employment offers, he’s set for life, and now he can do whatever he wants to do because he will be free of the endless bellyaching.

Our politicians are elected to represent and act upon the best interests of the British people, not to cosy up to media honchos. This is part of the reason or reasons why our country’s in such a mess.

We can’t have a political system whereby the Prime Minister or indeed any politician has to dance to the tune of the media and then they’re penalised by the press itself, and if that’s the case we may as well do away with our electoral system and hand our country over to billionaire media moguls.

Neither lot is working in the best interest of the people of our country because they’re far too self-serving, manipulative and greedy to give the British people as much as a second thought.

The system is now run in the best interest of the elites and those who toe the line serve to feather line the already versus wealthy pockets who are presented to the people of our country as the good guys and that kind of clique has to go.

Is The Millennial Generation Putting Lullabies To Sleep For Good?

Classic cradlesong are at risk of dying out as almost half of millennial mothers and fathers don’t know all the words to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

A poll of 2,000 parents aged 26 to 41 revealed just 53 per cent can recite all the lyrics to Baa Baa Black Sheep, while only 51 per cent can sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat in its entirety.

Even Humpty Dumpty baffled half of those polled, while Jack and Jill
was known by just 43 per cent, and three in five parents can’t soothe their babies to sleep with a full rendition of Rock A Bye Baby.

Only 34 per cent could sing the entirety of Little Bo Peep, dropping to 29 per cent for Hush Little Baby and 28 per cent for Frere Jacques.

One in ten millennial parents said they don’t sing lullabies at all because they have a horrible voice or feel uncomfortable. Instead, one revealed to rapping Kanye West tunes to their baby, while another sang The Rolling Stones classics. Yet 83 per cent still thought that the bedtime routine was a critical bonding experience.

The study, commissioned by baby products manufacturer MAM, also discovered nine in ten parents read bedtime stories, and 43 per cent think these are better for soothing their children. Millennials stuck to the classics, with The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Gruffalo and We’re Going On A Bear Hunt the most favoured.

Lisa Parkhill, from MAM, said that getting a little one off to sleep was a special, soothing time spent between babies and parents, even if some of the methods might be deemed unconventional.

She said that it’s intriguing to learn just how many depend on the power of their voice to support their baby during these moments, yet many recognise they won’t be releasing a hit single anytime soon.

She said that as parents develop those unbreakable bonds with their children, they learn just how important bedtime is to soothe their little ones, and even a brilliant opportunity to unwind.

These rhymes are part of our cultural heritage. It’s a shame that they’re being forgotten, and everything from our history is being erased, and most parents now are far too busy to get off their phones – children
being ignored while the parents walk along looking at their phones with no interaction with their children at all, so now children don’t know how to play as the parents never show them or spend quality time with them, they give their children an IPad to distract them instead, and they give them a ridiculous device to shut their children up.

Children’s rhymes were lovely with parents singing Round and Round The Garden and Incy Wincy Spider, and it didn’t matter if you had a good singing voice or not, parents used to sing themselves stupid to amuse their children.

It actually makes you wonder how many parents still read to their children at bedtime, or do they just hand their children a tablet until they fall asleep? As a child, my mum read to me at night, every night and I always looked forward to it, but a lot of things are dying out, it’s a new revolution.

The Cost Of Living Crisis In Britain

Shoppers hoping to pick up their favourite brand of butter may be in for a shock after it emerged one supermarket goliath was now selling Lurpak for more than £7 a tub.

The luxury butter brand, first produced in Denmark in 1901, has become a staple for millions of households across the country, but families might soon be turned off by the eyewatering price of a pack of Lurpak.

Images online showed a 750g pack of its lightly salted spreadable butter listed for £7.20 in Sainsbury’s this week.

The news comes amid the worst cost of living crisis since the 1970s stoked by unbridled inflation, with experts warning that the worst could be yet to come.

Sainsbury’s boss Simon Roberts last month warned that the cost of living crisis will get worse before it gets better.

The chief executive said customers were facing the most difficult of times, adding that the effects of this were going to last longer than he was sure most people anticipated months ago.

He said that the cost of food, fuel, fertiliser and labour have all gone up and that they were seeing substantial cost impacts and they’re not going to go away any time soon.

He said that households up and down the country were facing real challenges and that it was challenging for customers and challenging for households trying to manage their budgets.

It comes as a typical family of four’s shopping bills could increase as much as £40 per month in the latest pinch on domestic finances as necessities such as bread and dairy look set to increase, and the staggering rise in prices doesn’t just stop at dairy products.

Recent Retail Price Index figures for goods purchased by ordinary shoppers revealed the average cost of a roasting joint of beef had increased by 9.8 per cent to £11.34 over the year to April, while chicken had risen by 10.4 per cent to £3 a kilo.

But caterers are reporting even more dramatic rises of between 20 and 30 per cent for numerous products, with prices continually changing by the week.

The cost of mince beef rose by 11 per cent overnight in recent days, Laca said, while one catering company saw the cost of 10kg of prepared potatoes increase from £10.46 to £15.50.

Elsewhere, Heinz staples such as baked beans, ketchup, salad cream and soup skyrocketed in price by up to 55 per cent in June.

Data from retail research experts Assosia shows the cost of Heinz beans is up a third in Asda since June 17, up from 90p to £1.20 per can, while a standard bottle of Heinz squeezy ketchup is up by 39 per cent in Morrisons from £2 to £2.79.

People are now aware that everything has gone up, but things just don’t go up overnight and this seems like heinous profiteering by manufacturers and retailers in the guise that everything’s going up, so let’s get on the bandwagon as well so that they can make a bit of dollar, and greed is a big factor and does this now mean that stores like Asda won’t have any roll back prices? After all, the price of everything has increased, so clearly they won’t be able to afford it! And the sad thing is now that prices have gone up, they will never go down again.

People should stop purchasing products that have become eye-wateringly expensive and start buying cheaper products, then the more expensive products will rot on the shelves. They’ll soon put their prices down.

There is a deadly blood-eating bug that poses a threat to tens of thousands of heart surgery patients

It was warned that tens of thousands of patients who had heart valve operations as far back as 2005 should be forewarned they’re at risk of a potentially lethal blood-eating bug.

Five years ago, a newspaper outlet revealed how the NHS was about to contact 47,000 patients who had heart valve operations between 2013 and 2016 after concerns about contaminated operating theatre equipment emerged.

Now survivors of Mycobacterium chimaera infection, victims’ families and their lawyers are calling for the alert to be extended to cover those operated on years earlier.

It follows unsettling new evidence that the germ can lay dormant in the body for much longer than once thought, up to 13 years and possibly more, but spotted early enough after M.chimaera becomes invasive, it can be successfully treated with antibiotics, but if left to fester the infection can spread, causing deep tissue abscesses and triggering deadly complications.

Up to 250,000 people have had heart surgery in Britain in which a potentially contaminated type of ‘heater-cooler unit’ (HCU) was used.

HCUs are needed to regulate the temperature of blood as it’s passed outside the body to be pumped with an artificial heart, while the organ is temporarily stopped. But one common type of HCU, the Sorin 3T made by firm LivaNova, is believed to be been prone to M.chimaera colonisation if not entirely sterilised.

Solicitor Paul Balen of Freeths Solicitors, who’s acted for many victims, said that all patients who’ve undergone open-heart surgery using LivaNova HCUs since 2005 should be alerted of this danger.

In January, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the earliest implicated surgery was performed in 2006. It states there have now been 33 deaths from 49 confirmed cases, up from 15 deaths and from 26 confirmed cases when it was first spotlighted.

But there are concerns these numbers seriously underestimate the true scale of the problem. Last year, City of London Senior Coroner Alison Hewitt wrote a report warning that the true incidence of invasive M.chimaera infection was very likely to be higher than the official estimate of one from every 5,000 surgeries.

Public Health England disregarded her concerns and batted away her request for in-depth research. Yet the agency, since superseded by UKHSA, failed to say how it knew no cases were overlooked. An NHS England spokeswoman said it would examine coronial findings and take any additional action needed.

If someone needs a replacement heart valve, indeed their life is in immediate danger, and telling them they have a slight chance of getting a bug if they have the operation won’t stop them from wanting to live, however, communication is the key here, and it’s a bug that if found early enough can be treated with antibiotics.

However, this wouldn’t be a problem and totally preventable if everything was sterilised properly, and it seems now with hospitals, it’s not what you go in with, it’s what you come out with.

Sadly when in hospital there are infections that people could catch, but if you’re having life-saving surgery, I don’t suppose that’s on your mind at the time and wouldn’t even worry about it.

But if antibiotics work for this bug if detected early, why doesn’t the hospital just give the patients the drug after surgery as a precaution. After all, preventing something is better than trying to cure it after the fact or am I missing something here? But then I guess that would be too sensible for the NHS.

Seeing spies everywhere, Vladimir Putin

One of Russia’s leading scientists has died less than two days after he was yanked out of a cancer bed and locked up on charges of high treason.

Dr Dmitry Kolker, 54, was flown across Russia from Novosibirsk, where he taught quantum physics and maths, to Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison on Friday.

After 48 hours, the leading laser scientist died, his family reported.

He was under the watch of the state security service FSB, once overseen by Vladimir Putin.

Dr Kolker’s family accused the FSB of torture and abusing the doctor’s human rights by dragging him out of his death bed. He had stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

The FSB argued it had medical clearance to unplug him from his hospital drip and lock him up as part of a major spy investigation.

The scientist was accused of leading a pro-China spy ring alongside Professor Anatoly Maslov, 75, a hypersonic technologies teacher.

Professor Anatoly Maslow remains in Lefortovo, which became well-known during Stalin’s Great Purge of political opponents, businessmen and scientists.

An academic who knew Kolker said that Vladimir Putin is seeing spies everywhere, and that leading scientists were officially encouraged to cooperate with top foreign partners and did so, and now they’re being accused of spying.

Dr Kolker was head of Novosibirsk State University quantum optical technologies laboratory, and he was considered a world expert on lasers, having previously collaborated with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford.

Dr Kolker was too sick for chemotherapy when he was detained.

His daughter Alina Mironova, 29, said after his detention in late June that her family was going through absolute torture, and that their father couldn’t pass away surrounded by his family members.

The scientist’s son Maxim, 22, said his father had travelled to China on a lecturing trip, but the scientist, also a talented musician, was accompanied all the time by an FSB agent who approved every word of his lectures, he said.

They vehemently denied he’d passed state secrets on lasers to China.

Dr Maslov, the chief researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was accused of transmitting hypersonic state secrets to a foreign power, believed to be China.

The exact nature of the alleged crime isn’t known but his work included hypersonic innovations for aircraft.

Maslow is known to have formerly worked with Boeing in America and with German and Chinese partners.

If this is how paranoid Vladimir Putin treats the Russian people, it’s no surprise he doesn’t have any respect for the remainder of the world.

Vladimir Putin is an egomaniacal man who doesn’t seem to be very well in the head, especially if he can kill innocent children, let alone his own people, and this man is obviously going around the track the wrong way.

Vladimir Putin has completely lost the plot, and I’m sure he would be quite happy to massacre the majority of us throughout the world.

Vladimir Putin, he’s behind you! Boo! And to think that this madman is in command of nuclear weapons.

This is beyond words, yanking a cancer-riddled man from his death bed to hasten his already certain impending death, by torture, and how another human being could do such a thing is beyond me. Vladimir Putin actually isn’t deserving of breathing the air that we all share and he’s worse than an animal. What, does Vladimir Putin get an erection while killing people? Or was this a tactic to show his supporters that they’d daren’t think about overthrowing him because he’s killed a cancer patient and they could be next?

The Queen Consented To Prince Harry Naming His Daughter After Her, Believing It Would Be Elizabeth

A friend and interior designer to the royals claimed that the Queen thought that Harry and Meghan would name their daughter Elizabeth, not Lilibet, after a phone call with the Duke of Sussex and was taken aback when their choice was announced.

Socialite Nicky Haslam, whose royal friends include everyone from the Duchess of Cornwall to Prince Michael of Kent, made the extraordinary claim on a recent podcast where he insisted the Sussexes should have called her Doria.

Nicky Haslam alleged that the Queen had been under the impression that the child, who was born last June, would be called Elizabeth, and was surprised to discover that the couple had, in fact, called her Lilibet.

He said that he heard that Harry rang the Queen and said that they wanted to name their daughter after his Granny and that she said it was lovely and said thank you, believing that they were going to name the baby Elizabeth, so they got approval, but they didn’t say the name.

Speaking on The Third Act podcast, Mr Haslam goes on to question why Harry and Meghan didn’t name the baby after the American ex-actress’s mother instead.

Why on earth didn’t they call the baby Doria, he asked, adding that it was the prettiest name ever.

A spokesman for the Sussexes didn’t comment, more than three days after a newspaper outlet questioned them about Mr Haslam’s claims.

Mystery has shrouded the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to call their daughter Lilibet since the BBC’s royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond, claimed last year that they didn’t ask the Queen if they could use her family pet name.

In response, Prince Harry and Meghan launched an outstanding legal attack on the BBC, saying the report was false and defamatory.

Their spokesman said the Duke spoke with his family in advance of the announcement, in fact, his grandmother was the first family member he called, and during that conversation, he shared their hope of naming their daughter Lilibet in her honour, and that had she not been supportive, they wouldn’t have used the name.

Now Mr Haslam, a friend of the royals has added to the secret of what they did nor didn’t say in their telephone conversation with the monarch.

Lilibet has significant sentimental connotations for the Queen because it was the term used in private for her by her father, George VI, and by her late husband, Prince Philip.

They named their daughter after Harry’s grandmother, the way a lot of people do. There’s nothing ominous in that.

Lilibet is the most adorable name and it’s unique because it’s part of a tradition. The moniker was forged when the Queen was a little girl because she couldn’t pronounce her own name correctly, and her grandfather King George V would affectionately call her Lilibet, emulating her attempts to say her name.

It stuck and came to be used by close relatives, so it’s not a schmaltzy nickname and an indestructible tie to the royal family.

Harry and Meghan picked a name that they liked, and rightly so. Lilibet is a beautiful name and if other people use the name, does that mean that they need to ask for permission to use it from the Queen? But then why on earth would you need permission to name your own child?

No one, including the Queen, has autonomy over what they call their children. So, it’s not a legal issue, it’s just that many people are saying the name was chosen in very bad taste.

It’s Royal protocol to ask the Queen’s permission to use any name, but they don’t have to and they can use any name they want, and people seem to be extremely critical when they talk about Harry and Meghan – just let them get on with their lives because the more attention they get it’s only because people give it to them.

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