GPs Hit Back

Health chiefs faced a fierce backlash after ordering GPs to offer face to face appointments for patients, and several Local Medical Committees, groups that represent grassroots GPs across the United Kingdom, wrote to members asking them to reject the new guidance.

The letters, seen by a news outlet, called the move badly judged and frankly ludicrous.

They also suggested that practices remove the email from the NHS England or file it as a keepsake to incompetence.

Meanwhile, the British Medical Association (BMA) accused civil servants of being tone-deaf for not recognising the efforts GPs were making and the pressure they were feeling as a consequence of extensive workload demands.

Doctors on social media also rounded on the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), which last weekend echoed their concerns about policymakers trying to make digital-first services common practice.

NHS England’s updated guidance means all patients will be able to request an in-person appointment with their doctor unless they have COVID symptoms.

Telephone and online appointments, popular with numerous patients, who find them more effective, will remain, but crucially, practices must respect patients choices for face to face care.

RCGP chief Professor Martin Marshall said it was encouraging that this left room for shared decision making between GP and patient on the most appropriate method of consultation, yet GPs on Twitter called the response inadequate, feeble and tepid, and one suggested that doctors had been shafted by the college, and in an online poll, ten per cent of respondents said they’d rather leave medicine than accept the new rules.

And insiders revealed that while the vast preponderance of GPs had been offering face to face appointments, there were pockets where practices had shut up shop.

A source said that the NHS guidance was blunt, and that most of them had been offering a good service in especially challenging circumstances, and that people were feeling besieged as it was, and that this went down badly.

Evidence suggests that phone and online consultation forms had actually increased GPs workloads and that many were experiencing long days of back to back telephone appointments.

The insider added that they knew there were pockets of bad practices, where doctors had shut up shop, and then you get slack GPs who’d willingly do everything over the telephone or on email.

The new rules were aimed at this majority but were sent to everyone, and that was upsetting, and the policy shift was a victory for the news outlets campaign to Let Us See Our GPs Face To Face.

All GPs would have been vaccinated, and hospital doctors are working, but nobody can get referred to a hospital without being first screened by a GP, and they don’t appear to want to see patients whilst raking in a top wage, and if they want telephone only appointments then they may as well move the so-called GP surgeries to call centres, and if you can see a nurse face to face, then you should be able to see a doctor face to face.

Matt Hancock brought in the directive for doctors not to see patients in person and it appears that he only wants telephone and Zoom calls.

Matt Hancock is out of touch, but then all he has to do is phone up his private healthcare for an appointment, which is funded by the taxpayer, and it’s unbelievable that some doctors, not all of them, think it’s okay to hide away as their patients suffer, and those that are hiding are a disgrace to the medical profession.

Hardworking Aussie

A middle-aged father says he’s been rejected from 237 jobs in just 17 months because employers believe he’s too old.

Western Australian man Nicolas Winterson is just 53 and fighting to land himself a full-time job despite a lifetime of experience in the Navy and senior investigation roles.

He served with the Royal Australian Navy for ten years, worked as a high-level fraud and forensics manager for twenty years and speaks Malay and Bahasa Indonesian.

At one point he was director of forensic services at KPMG Australia, a globally recognised firm that provides audit, tax and advisory services.

Nicolas Winterson has been applying for every potential job under the sun and handing in his application for both senior and junior positions.

He’s put in an application to work at ASIO, the police force, home affairs office and even hardware giant Bunnings, but every single application has been rejected despite his remarkable resume and lifelong experience.

And a distraught Nicolas Winterson believes recruiters are overlooking his candidacy for the roles because of one thing that’s out of his control, and he told the West Australian that they think 53 is too old, and that recruiters have a bias against people over a certain age, and that they’re after young people, and that he’s finding it difficult because some of those roles, he fits the job description perfectly.

Nicolas Winterson said he was even told by a Bunning’s employer that he didn’t get the position because the hardware giant was looking for a specific kind of person.

The 53-year-old has an 11-year-old son and worries he won’t be able to look after him much longer if he isn’t hired by someone.

The Australian Human Rights Commission and Australian Human Resources Institute released a report in April that looked into ageism in the Australian workforce.

It found more employers were more hesitant to hire workers over a particular age while there’s also been a slight variation in perception in what age group would be classed as an older worker.

Around 17 per cent of recruiters classified 51-57-year-olds as older workers in 2021, compared to only 11 per cent in 2018, and a disturbing 46.7 per cent of employers admitted they would be more reluctant to hire a worker over a particular age.

Fifty-three years old is not even old and it’s shocking, and yet they keep increasing the pension age, but that’s because they hope that everybody drops dead before then, and if people of a particular age aren’t going to be able to get employment because of this, then they need to lower the retirement age.

I guess that just about sums up Bunnings, and blows a hole in what people thought was a great company that supported Australian and even perhaps the Australian services, and I would love to know which clown’s going to take the blame for this and how their PR team will attempt to twist their way out of this one.

And there’s so much support and attention on young people, which of course, there should be, but the over fifties are being completely forgotten about, and this is just covert age discrimination.

Age discrimination is widespread for the over fifties, even if they have both life and work experience, and the dedication to actually turn up for work, but there appears to be this culture within HR departments that the younger the employee fits better.

But older people make much better workers. They don’t take off time to have children, they’re dependable because they know jobs are difficult to come by and they do the work normally without whinging, but most companies are encouraged not to hire them.

Enormous 120-Tonne Bridge Falls From Crane

A 120-tonne bridge has fallen from a crane with pieces of rubble falling onto the street and squashing a truck below.

The incident took place in Regent Street, Leeds as contractors worked on the A64 bridge replacement works that will see a new £31 million flyover established in the city centre.

It’s understood the enormous structure was being moved by a crane when it came hurtling to the ground and destroyed a large vehicle below.

According to Leeds City Council, a piece of the concrete bridge had been securely installed onto a heavy load trailer, but a malfunction caused it to shift from its resting position.

The Regent Street Inner Ring Road had been closed since yesterday evening for bridge demolition works, and an onlooker revealed to LeedsLive that a 120-tonne section of the A64 bridge replacement had just fallen on a truck from the crane.

The works were expected to last the next four weekends, until 5.30 am on Monday, June 7.

The Inner Ring Road site was set to reopen on Monday, but images from this morning show the area has been fenced off.

In a statement posted this morning, Leeds City Council said that essential work to demolish and reconstruct the northern section of Regent Street Flyover was currently ongoing, and that last night, a concrete section of the demolished bridge was being hoisted onto a specialist trailer to be disposed of and recycled away from the site.

Leeds City Council said it was safely installed onto a heavy load vehicle, however, there was a failure of the trailer, causing a piece of the bridge to move from its resting position, and that it’s now being broken up for safe removal and will be cleared from the site by lunchtime today.

The council has also since established there were no injuries as a result of this incident.

Work on the Leeds Regent Street flyover project, which is expected to cost £31 million, started last May and is expected to last two years.

As part of the upgrade scheme, the 60-year-old bridge that supports the A64 Inner Ring Road over the A61 Regent Street will need to be demolished.

I just hope this work isn’t being carried out by the Trotters because I’d hate to let them take my chandeliers down for cleaning! And you would think that in today’s health and safety this kind of thing shouldn’t be happening.

Leeds is like the city that time forgot, and now it’s like living in downtown Moscow it’s become that grey.

Of course, the crane driver will blame the faulty trailer, the trailer owner will blame the crane driver, and their lawyers will be grinning and rubbing their hands together, but it’s also always a good idea not to be under anything that’s lifting a crane because there have been loads of crane failures, and it makes perfect sense to not be in the way at the time.

Perhaps we should have had Steptoe & Son on this because they would have had that on the cart and in the back yard in a jiffy, and is this going to be the new normal now with the state the construction industry is in.

From the cheap labour to the clowns in the offices, who’ve never worked in the field, straight out of college and haven’t got a clue how to plan the work. All they know is how to delay or stop it.

It was only a matter of time before an incident like this transpired, with councils having used lockdowns and COVID restrictions as an excuse to push construction work on their costly vanity projects, with work frequently being rushed to fit into ever-changing windows between more and fewer restrictions.

Dire SAGE Warning

SAGE issued a dire warning that the Indian COVID variant could put 10,000 in hospital a day inside months, putting the end of lockdown in danger, and leading experts to back regional vaccine surges.

Government scientists also suggested it could lead to up to a thousand deaths a day by the summer, admitting there’s a real possibility it’s far more transmissible than the Kent strain.

The SPI-M subgroup said it was confident the mutant B.1.617.2 strain was more contagious than the currently dominant variant, and that it could spread 50 per cent more quickly.

It warned that pressing on with easing all lockdown restrictions on June 21, as is currently the plan for England, could soon lead to widespread hospitalisation because there are still too few adults vaccinated to prevent its progress.

Documents released by the group reveal how scientists have considered rolling out a surge of jabs in towns and cities worst affected by the Indian variant, although this was eventually ruled out.

The papers read that if vaccination reduces the likelihood of transmission for this variant, increasing regional vaccination in areas where it’s prevalent could dampen growth in infections, although it takes several weeks for vaccines to provide protection.

The benefits would need to be weighed against the costs of moving vaccines from elsewhere. JCVI continues to evaluate the evidence on different vaccinations strategies.

The bleak models were presented to No 10 after cases of the strain more than doubled in seven days and four people were found to have died from the variant, and the fact it’s spreading quickly when the country is still in lockdown and amongst a highly vaccinated population has sent alarm bells ringing.

England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told a Downing Street press conference that the variant was expected to become the most aggressive in the United Kingdom.

The Government’s scientists have said they’re confident the strain isn’t more dangerous and that vaccines will work well against it, but they warn the death toll could soar significantly by the fact it’s able to infect more people than previous strains and there are still 30 million unvaccinated Britons.

Surge testing is being deployed in 15 hotspots, mostly in the North West of England, and second vaccine doses are being sped up for over 50s to contain the strain and pre-empt a deadly third wave.

SPI-M scientists advising SAGE this month estimated what a more transmissible strain could do to the country after lockdown is lifted in June and maintained it could trigger up to 20,000 hospital admissions per day in a worst-case situation. January’s peak, which almost paralysed the NHS, was about 3,800 a day in England.

But it also appears that SAGE can be somewhat manipulative and more often than not, wrong – the vaccine either works or it doesn’t, and their computer modelling was, and is flawed, and they’re always prophesying doom, but it’s time to move on, and get on with what’s left of our lives.

According to figures online, India has had 24 million cases and 26,2000 deaths. Yet apparently, the United Kingdom has had 4.4 million cases and 12,8000 deaths.

How can these numbers be correct, if this Indian COVID variant is apparently worse, how come India has had an extra 20 million cases but deaths are only just double? And it just shows the COVID death rate in this country is way off, and too many people have been wrongly classified as a COVID death just because it’s the easiest thing to do.

And it seems that this crisis is not about the virus, and they’re using this crisis across the world in a socialist strategy of subversion to control everyone and to prepare us for their New World Order.

Here we have it, folks, more lockdown coming, and some people will accept it for what it is, but numerous people won’t, and what’s the point of us being vaccinated if they’re still going to keep us tied down with no joy in our lives, and it’s now crystal clear that they won’t take that jackboot off our necks because they’re all drunk on power.

Prince Harry Talks About Going Wild In His Youth

Prince Harry has spoken of going wild as he talked with a Hollywood star about their own drugs and alcohol problems.

The Duke of Sussex, 36, was speaking on actor Dax Shepard’s ‘Armchair Expert’ mental health podcast when he made the remarks.

Harry was questioning the star, who’s married to Frozen actress Kristen Bell, about the American’s substance use in high school.

The Royal asked him about Shepard’s awareness of what sparked his path towards drugs as a teenager.

Harry told him that for him it was his upbringing and everything that happened to him, the trauma, pain and suffering.

And he said that all of a sudden you find yourself doing a s*** load of drugs and partying hard, and that look at how many other people do that as well. They wouldn’t have the awareness at the time, and that he certainly wouldn’t have had the awareness when he was going wild.

And he said it’s like why am I actually doing this? But that at that moment it’s like, this is fun, and that in your 20s, it’s what you’re supposed to do.

Harry himself has been linked to smoking cannabis and drinking, and a recent Channel 5 documentary called Prince Harry: The Troubled Prince featured broadcaster Daisy McAndrew.

She told the programme, you can understand how a lonely, privileged troubled Prince would end up drinking and partying and taking cannabis to fill those hours and hang out with people he thought really liked or even loved him.

Prince Charles is understood to have taken the young Duke aged 16 to a residential centre for drug users for a visit after finding out, and reformed users at Peckham’s Featherstone Lodge warned him their addictions had begun with drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis.

Harry’s comments came on Shephard’s podcast where he bared his soul on his unhappiness in the Royal family.

He also said he was so desperate to conceal his relationship with Meghan when she stayed at Kensington Palace for the first time that they went incognito to the supermarket and pretended they didn’t know each other, texting shopping list items from various aisles.

Chatting with a slight American twang to his British accent, Harry said his life was like The Truman Show when Jim Carrey’s character discovers his life is a TV drama, as he discussed his emotional state and how he began therapy after Meghan saw he was angry.

And he’s like most stars who party around the world, in a balloon of bodyguards and a fixed number of friends, but unlike most celebrities, he never knew life before he became a superstar.

Of course, in the case of his family, it means that Harry has always been in the spotlight, and his every move has been scrutinised. Of course, he’s lived a pretty vested life, but you don’t choose the family that you’re born into.

And perhaps beneath all that pain, maybe he does fancy himself a little, and perhaps he was never remotely interesting, yet people are always somewhere talking about him.

I quite like Harry, not really sure about Meghan yet, but she’s his wife and he clearly loves his family.

And of course, losing your mother so young must have a lasting impact on your well-being, and living amongst the Royal family must have taken its toll, one where no one talks about their vulnerabilities and emotions.

Harry is clearly still exploring his vulnerability, but at least he’s on a journey to becoming wholehearted, and if he helps save one young life from drugs, he will have made a difference to that person and the world.

Another Seven Blood Clot Cases Are Linked To The AstraZeneca Jab

Another seven cases of a rare blood clotting condition in Australia have been linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration announced the new cases in its weekly COVID 19 vaccine safety briefing.

The authority said three cases were confirmed as a syndrome involving blood clots coupled with a low platelet count, and four were considered probable cases.

The three confirmed cases were a 75-year-old man from Victoria, a 59-year-old man from Queensland, and a 75-year-old man from Western Australia.

The TGA said two of the patients were treated and discharged from hospital, while a third man was in a stable condition.

The four probable cases are a man, 70, from NSW and three men 65, 70 and 81, from Victoria.

The condition, known technically as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, is extremely rare, according to the TGA, with the rates in Australia consistent with other countries.

Of the 1.8 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine given in Australia, there have been 18 confirmed blood clot cases.

Australia overnight secured 25 million doses of the alternative Moderna coronavirus vaccine from the US, with the surprise deal also paving the way for local production of mRNA vaccines.

The first 10 million doses of the double shot jab will be delivered by the end of this year, intended for people under 50.

Another 15 million booster shots are set to arrive next year, designed to guard against emerging COVID 19 strains.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was important to prepare for potential variants of the virus.

He said that they were well into the phase of dealing with what’s coming next because the pandemic was not going anywhere, and Labour’s health spokesperson Mark Butler wants the government to demonstrate why the deal has taken so long.

He said that the US, Canada, UK, European Union, Korea, Japan and Israel were already using the jab.

He told reporters in Canberra that tens and tens of millions of doses of this state of the art vaccine have already been delivered to the people in those countries, so why do Australians have to wait until the end of the year.

The Moderna vaccine and booster shot are still subject to approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration before they can be used in Australia.

Health Minister Greg Hunt said the government hadn’t shifted its position on a no-fault compensation scheme for Moderna.

Greg Hunt said the company agreed to the government’s terms.

Moderna is an mRNA, or messenger RNA vaccine, which teaches cells how to make a protein to trigger an immune response.

Australia doesn’t have the domestic ability to manufacture such a jab, and it seems, right now, more people in Australia are having their health affected by the vaccine than the disease itself.

They say it’s safe, but these vaccines had virtually no testing before they were released to the public, and we really have no idea what’s going into our body – hopefully, we won’t regret it in a few years when the true side effects manifest themselves.

And it’s incredulous as to the number of people willing to take part in an experiment, and these so-called jabs will remain in an experimental stage until 2023, and yet they want to make this an emergency use that’s still in clinical trials as mandatory as possible because they love playing Russian roulette with our lives.

Perhaps the benefits do exceed the risks but tell that to the families of the deceased, and now, who’s going to roll up their sleeves to have the shot?

Boris Johnson’s £535 Outstanding Debt

Boris Johnson has been slapped with a court judgment for an outstanding debt after a COVID conspiracy theorist bizarrely alleged he’d repeatedly slandered her.

Official records revealed that the Prime Minister was being pursued failing to pay a £535 bill.

It initially appeared to be a fresh embarrassment for Boris Johnson, who’s already facing an inquiry by the Westminster watchdog over who paid for his £15,000 holiday to Mustique and three separate inquires into who financed the lavish redecoration of his Downing Street flat.

But details obtained by a news outlet show that the potentially damaging court order relates to an unlikely accusation of slander.

The suit was brought by Yvonne Hobbs against The Rt Hon Boris Johnson and she gave her reason for the debt as: ‘Committed repeated defamation.

She used the Online Civil Money Claims service to state that the Prime Minister owed her £535, but the news outlet reported that Yvonne Hobbs, 59, of Leicestershire, is a COVID conspiracy theorist who’s launched many claims against Boris Johnson and public institutions, and that she frequently sends copies of her complaints to the Queen, the BBC, the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

She states ‘I’m taking on the Government’ on her social media.

She’s launched legal suits against Marks and Spencer, Royal Mail, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and various public companies.

Another recent complaint to wrongdoer Boris Johnson was also filed.

Boris Johnson has never made a public statement relating to Yvonne Hobbs.

Because letters about the alleged debt was apparently sent to 10 Downing Street but went unanswered, a default County Court Judgment was issued on October 26 last year without any explanation being given. Online records confirm the debt is still unsatisfied, meaning it’s not yet been paid.

Downing Street believes the claim is entirely bogus and the CCJ shouldn’t have been issued.

It’s understood that Boris Johnson had no idea about it until the first details were revealed by satirical magazine Private Eye.

Defamation cases are meant to be dealt with by senior judges in the High Court, so questions will be asked about why the claim was approved by the online small claims court.

The correspondence was sent to 10 Downing Street rather than any property Boris Johnson owns, or 11 Downing Street, which is where his flat is, and it wasn’t made under his real name, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

A CCJ has to have the correct and full legal name of the person and the correct address, which means that this particular CCJ will presumably be revoked as it’s invalid, but then COVID has demonstrated how many fools are actually living amongst us.

Boris Johnson didn’t ignore the court letters, the CCJ went to No 10 Downing Street, which isn’t his actual address, so his staff would have been in charge of that side of things, and it’s not that he didn’t bother, he just never knew.

Boris isn’t the person that opens the post, and they get hundreds of letters a day, and it looks like somebody has filed a claim against Boris Johnson, he didn’t respond to it because he never got it, yet it’s been automatically granted.

And Yvonne Hobbs seems like a bit of a fanatic, and it appears that she’s brought various claims against several well-known company names and if her case fails she should be locked up.

But if nothing else, perhaps this will educate Boris Johnson on how ludicrous the British County Court system is.

You can issue a claim for any made-up figure against anybody you like and if it’s ignored, like any rational person would ignore such foolish ridiculousness, then the judgment is automatically granted in their favour, and the debtor will have this lodged on their credit record, ruining their ability to obtain credit, and even if it’s successfully removed later it still leaves a mark on their file for six years – this is an utter shambles of a system, and it could only happen in Britain.

Governor Ron DeSantis Will Pardon All Floridians

Florida’s governor on Wednesday night announced live on air clemency for everyone in his state who’s being punished for breaking COVID rules.

Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of the state, appeared on Fox News to make the announcement.

He was flanked by Mike and Jillian Carnevale, gym owner from Plantation, Florida, who were repeatedly arrested for refusing to enforce a mask mandate.

The state itself didn’t have mask mandates, as Ron DeSantis spoke strongly against them throughout the height of the pandemic, but individual counties and municipalities did have them, despite Ron DeSantis protesting against them.

Ron DeSantis said that now, people who were ensnared by the local rules will have their slate wiped clean.

Mike Carnevale was first arrested on July 27, for what their supporters, in a GoFundMe page to fund their legal expenses, described as taking a stand for the health and freedom of his community and country.

He was arrested twice more, on August 6, and August 7, for not enforcing facial coverings during strenuous exercise. Jillian Carnevale was also arrested on August 7.

Ron DeSantis said that the couple will be given clemency, describing the punishment as a total overreach and that the same deal will be given to everyone in his state.

‘I’m glad you have Mike and Jillian on, and I’m also glad to be on to be able to say that effective tomorrow morning, I’m going to sign a reprieve under my constitutional authority,’ he said.

‘So that will delay the case for 60 days against both of them, and then when our clemency board meets in the coming weeks, we’ll issue pardons not only for Mike and Jillian but for any Floridian that may have outstanding infractions for things like masks and social distancing.’

Ron DeSantis earlier this month lifted all of the state’s remaining COVID rules saying the state was no longer in a state of emergency.

Ron DeSantis was at a waterfront restaurant in St Petersburg when he signed SB-2006, a bill that enables him to override all local rules and bans vaccine passports from July 1 onward.

Florida is amongst only five states that have opened fully, according to a tally being kept by Multistate, a government relations firm.

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas and Georgia all have 100 per cent scores on the firm’s tally when it comes to being completely open. Eight other states are almost all the way open, with a 96 score. Illinois is the lowest with 45 and New York is 52, while California is 50.

As for the clemency, Florida is the first state in the US to issue such clemency, and Ron DeSantis has placed himself throughout the pandemic as a pro-Trump defence against Democrat authoritarianism.

The number of people affected remains unclear.

The Orlando Sentinel reported at the end of October for perspective, just in Miami Dade County alone, there were 1,882 citations issued totalling $760,600.

Now some people are saying that Ron DeSantis is the best governor in the United States and that he runs the state with common sense, and that maybe he might make a great president.

And Ron DeSantis is setting himself up as a very strong Grand Old Party (GOP) competitor to take down naive Joe Biden in 2024, that’s if he lives that long, and we need leaders that will completely obliterate the great reset and green new deal, and perhaps Ron DeSantis is the man.

It seems that this gentleman sets the criteria for how to run a free country, and if this is the case, then Ron DeSantis needs to be at the helm, and I think he’ll have a lot of people’s votes.

Will Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Name Their New Daughter After Prince Philip?

Their baby girl is expected in the summertime and as such, speculation is arising as to what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will call their daughter.

One name is currently a frontrunner when it comes to gambling odds, with UK betting site Ladbrokes announcing Philippa is now the most current forecast following Prince Philip’s passing last month.

Supporters think the Duke of Sussex, 36, will pay tribute to his dead grandpa and include a variation of the Duke of Edinburgh’s name in his daughter’s name.

Jessica O’Reilly of Ladbrokes said that Royal enthusiasts are increasingly confident that Harry and Meghan will name their daughter Philippa, and that they’ve been forced to cut the odds accordingly as it’s the only name punters are backing right now.

She added that it certainly wouldn’t be a huge surprise if Diana was used, although it seems more likely it will be a middle name. Elizabeth is also proving a popular bet, with royalists thinking it could be an olive branch from the couple to Her Majesty.

If the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did pay tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, they wouldn’t be the first royal couple to do so. Prince Philip’s granddaughters Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall both paid tribute to their beloved grandpa by naming their newborn sons after him.

But in a sad turn of events, the Duke of Edinburgh never had the opportunity to meet the two great-grandsons who were named in his honour.

Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank, who married in October 2018, called their first baby, a boy born in February August Philip Hawke Brooksbank. A month later her cousin Zara Tindall and her husband Mike welcomed a son, Lucas Philip Tindall.

Due to lockdown restrictions, it’s believed that Eugenie and Zara never had the chance to introduce their newborn sons to their grandfather before his passing on April 9 at the age of 99.

Meghan and Harry announced during their bombshell on the Oprah Winfrey interview in March that their second child was a girl and was expected to be born in the summertime.

Prince Harry joined his wife for the second half of the much-anticipated interview on CBS to share the news, eagerly telling the chat show hostess that it was a girl.

But would this not be the final slap in the face for the Royal family? But anything for a headline, and there’s a pretty sure bet from the bookies that Diana Philipa Elizabeth is on the cards, but then perhaps we’re all wrong and it will be some pretty obscure name because when their son was born, I don’t think many people were expecting them to come up with the name Archie, but whatever their daughter is named, it will be so named to accumulate as much publicity as possible.

Perhaps they’ll call their daughter Harrietta. Everyone is so hell-bent that the child will be named after one of the Royal family or even Meghan, but maybe they will name her after Harry, and it’s immaterial what middle names they give her, they’re never normally used much anyhow.

Whatever they call their daughter, I’m sure it will be perfect, for them, because what does it matter what the populace think, it’s not their child, and they don’t have to bring it up, and at the end of the day, it’s pure and utter guesswork and a way for the bookies to make money.

Why Do The Royals Use Such Old Fashioned Phones?

For many of us, corded landline phones went out of fashion last century, superseded by more convenient, compact handsets, but for the royals, they’re still pretty much in fashion.

After moving to Windsor Castle to isolate in March 2020, the Queen has been pictured conducting her weekly meetings with Prime Minister Boris Johnson using an old fashioned rotary dial telephone.

Earlier this week, the Duchess of Cambridge updated her and Prince William’s new YouTube channel with a video of her chats with participants to her photography contest Hold Still.

Kate, 39, was pictured holding a black corded landline telephone to her ear as she coolly chattered away to finalists near a window in her London home, Kensington Palace.

While the Duchess has previously been spotted with an iPhone mobile, when she read out questions submitted for her Early Years Q&A in an Instagram video shared in November, both she and William, 38, tend to use the old fashioned landline when it comes to handling engagements.

In March last year, during the first coronavirus lockdown, William was photographed talking on the telephone to Mind Charity’s CEO Paul Farmer about the importance of mental health from a desk in the Palace which also housed a black corded telephone.

The Duchess of Cornwall has also been photographed numerous times throughout the pandemic keeping in touch with people from her and Prince Charles’ Scottish home, Birkhall, via a corded handset.

Royal expert Phil Dampier told FEMAIL that Her Majesty has likely used the same phone for years, and has an ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ mentality.

He said that the Queen doesn’t believe in change for change’s sake and if she’s happy with something she keeps using it for years.

Dickie Arbiter, the Queen’s former press spokesperson, added that Her Majesty is quite frugal and sees no point in changing something if it works.

He told FEMAIL that it, fits the ambience if you’re living in a medieval castle, why put something modern in? The white phone fits, and it’s a rather old fashioned Bakelite phone, and as far as she’s concerned, it works, why replace it?

And he said that you’d be amazed at how many people have corded telephones, how many people have old fashioned homes, because they want old fashioned telephones, because they look good, it looks better than anything modern, and at the end of the day, it’s about choice.

But is it really a show for the cameras so they can pretend they’re just like you and me, and that once the cameras are away, the hi-tech stuff comes back out, and let’s face it, if they had state of the art phones, the snowflakes would be complaining about wasting money.

But perhaps the Queen has a point and something the rest of us could learn a lesson or two from by not replacing things just because of the latest trend, and at least they won’t get their brains cooked by a mobile telephone.

The Royal Family are, by their very essence, a Retro brand, and it gives their followers a snug, comfy feeling that nothing ever actually changes, and the British simply love living in the past, and sometimes, but not always, old is better built than today’s modern equivalent, and at the end of the day, it’s just a phone that sits on a table, and if you like living in the 1950s, you may as well do it right.

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