I want the rest of time to be an endless ritual of funeral mourning for the Queen of England, which never quite ends, so that in 2065 she is “slowly proceeding up the great alt.mall of 3/Chengdu, accompanied by the robot pipers of Planet X/beta-55” and we never have to actually confront her actual death
Are you sure you are only drinking bubbly? You haven't popped a few Es to go with it by any chance?
Not a representative time to take a poll though is it. Even the most hard hearted Republican can't help but be moved by the last few days events. Need to look at polls during more boring times in a few months time.
Precisely.
At least in NZ, there’s no hostility toward the monarchy. It’s just that that the individuals are so profoundly British, and so obviously un-NZ.
I don’t know how you domesticate or repatriate the monarchy to make it more “NZ”, although I do believe that a little can go a long way.
Are they? NZ is culturally closer to the UK than any other nation on earth
So you keep saying, and it’s not untrue, but it is simply not the UK.
And it is even less UK-like than it was when I left the country in 2000.
I would actually say NZ is culturally closer to England even than Ireland or maybe even Scotland
Well, you’ve never been. So you are theorising.
I would argue it’s closer to Scotland than England, but closer of all to Australia of course.
Anyway the relevant dimension is “wanting to keep the monarchy”, and despite present polling there is now an clear nagging question of why a “foreigner” is Head of State.
It isn't, Australia is probably closer to the US culturally than the UK now, New Zealand however is culturally still closer to the UK than US.
There is also the question of wokeism self hating the ancestry of Australians and New Zealanders, which the monarchy offers a chance for conservatives in both nations in particular to react against.
In Australia for example Coalition voters still clearly back the monarchy even if Green and Labor voters mostly don't
This is like me telling you that Epping is full of Arabs.
Having driven through Epping once, thirty years ago, I am an expert on the place. It’s full of cockney wide boys and small time gangsters.
It isn't, certainly not gangsters, it is not actually in East London, though a few City wide boys maybe. However Epping and its surrounds also have plenty of farmers, Epping is the border between the part of Essex which is part culturally outer East London and the part of Essex that is more rural East Anglia proper (we move to the latter in December)
No part of Essex is in East Anglia, strictly speaking. You don’t even know about your own neighbourhood.
Quite. When i restore the kingdom i get Norfolk, Suffolk, the Isle of Ely and parts of Holland in Lincolnshure
The Essex county council chamber has the names of the Essex Kings around its roof. There weren't very many of them, and mostly seemed to be called Seigbert. Although it's a while since I've been in the county council chamber!
Yes, the name gives away the saxon/angle split Essex is a different beast to Anglia
South Essex is, more rural North Essex isn't. Certainly before Londoners from the East End really started moving into South Essex after the War and new towns like Harlow and Basildon were created for them, Essex was culturally very much an East Anglia county
No, it wasn’t.
Rural Essex’s cultural affinities were more with rural Hertfordshire and even rural Middlesex.
Of course, as a neighbour of East Anglia you would expect some similarities, but to neighbour is not the same thing as to actually be.
Quite. He's ádmitted it with his assertion that English folk are more like Kiwis than they are to Scottish folk (whether this is actually true or not, he has abandoned the neighbourhood principle in so doing).
More New Zealanders have English ancestry than that from any other nation, including Scotland
Presumably the same for Australians?
He's completely wrong anyway. England is the one with most English ancestry.
I said New Zealand was the nation in the world most culturally similar to England, not that it was England!
Surely Russia is the country culturally most similar to England. Delusions of grandeur, terrible weather, their neighbours all hate them, obsessed with WW2, good at parades, half the population are pissed most of the time... We even have folk on here threatening to invade an independent Scotland and eyeing up the border lands for annexation.
Hardly, we have not just invaded Ireland have we, we are a far wealthier nation than Russia, Heads of State from all over the world have attended the Queen's funeral, most of them hate Putin and we don't have average -8 C or worse temperatures in January
The last great location it existed was the lobbies of expensive office buildings. But now people waiting in lobbies (and there are far fewer of them too) are on their phones: they're not staring at an expensive flat screens.
CNN is failing first. But even Fox News is getting killed. Back in 2014/2015, they used to get almost 5m viewers during primetime. Today, on a good day, it's more like 3.5m. And on some days they're floating with the 3m mark.
Here is a question for monarchy nerds. The Queen's crown and the King's are different shapes are they not? So do they take the best jewels and put them on Charlie's one, or does he have a completely different one?
I think they will use the same crown? St Edwards for the coronation, imperial for other state occasions.
But doesn't a King's crown not have the dipped bit in the middle?
Isn't that just heraldic style? Tudor crown vs. St Edwards.
The last great location it existed was the lobbies of expensive office buildings. But now people waiting in lobbies (and there are far fewer of them too) are on their phones: they're not staring at an expensive flat screens.
CNN is failing first. But even Fox News is getting killed. Back in 2014/2015, they used to get almost 5m viewers during primetime. Today, on a good day, it's more like 3.5m. And on some days they're floating with the 3m mark.
I was fascinated to see the viewing figures of America’s top news anchors - posted on here I think - and see that they are rather small and actually smaller in some cases than British viewing figures.
The last great location it existed was the lobbies of expensive office buildings. But now people waiting in lobbies (and there are far fewer of them too) are on their phones: they're not staring at an expensive flat screens.
CNN is failing first. But even Fox News is getting killed. Back in 2014/2015, they used to get almost 5m viewers during primetime. Today, on a good day, it's more like 3.5m. And on some days they're floating with the 3m mark.
I want the rest of time to be an endless ritual of funeral mourning for the Queen of England, which never quite ends, so that in 2065 she is “slowly proceeding up the great alt.mall of 3/Chengdu, accompanied by the robot pipers of Planet X/beta-55” and we never have to actually confront her actual death
Are you sure you are only drinking bubbly? You haven't popped a few Es to go with it by any chance?
I don't see SeanT as an MDMA kind of guy. All that love for humanity in its amazing diversity flooding his synapses would be very disconcerting. Colombian marching powder on the other hand...
Not a representative time to take a poll though is it. Even the most hard hearted Republican can't help but be moved by the last few days events. Need to look at polls during more boring times in a few months time.
Precisely.
At least in NZ, there’s no hostility toward the monarchy. It’s just that that the individuals are so profoundly British, and so obviously un-NZ.
I don’t know how you domesticate or repatriate the monarchy to make it more “NZ”, although I do believe that a little can go a long way.
Are they? NZ is culturally closer to the UK than any other nation on earth
So you keep saying, and it’s not untrue, but it is simply not the UK.
And it is even less UK-like than it was when I left the country in 2000.
I would actually say NZ is culturally closer to England even than Ireland or maybe even Scotland
Well, you’ve never been. So you are theorising.
I would argue it’s closer to Scotland than England, but closer of all to Australia of course.
Anyway the relevant dimension is “wanting to keep the monarchy”, and despite present polling there is now an clear nagging question of why a “foreigner” is Head of State.
It isn't, Australia is probably closer to the US culturally than the UK now, New Zealand however is culturally still closer to the UK than US.
There is also the question of wokeism self hating the ancestry of Australians and New Zealanders, which the monarchy offers a chance for conservatives in both nations in particular to react against.
In Australia for example Coalition voters still clearly back the monarchy even if Green and Labor voters mostly don't
This is like me telling you that Epping is full of Arabs.
Having driven through Epping once, thirty years ago, I am an expert on the place. It’s full of cockney wide boys and small time gangsters.
It isn't, certainly not gangsters, it is not actually in East London, though a few City wide boys maybe. However Epping and its surrounds also have plenty of farmers, Epping is the border between the part of Essex which is part culturally outer East London and the part of Essex that is more rural East Anglia proper (we move to the latter in December)
No part of Essex is in East Anglia, strictly speaking. You don’t even know about your own neighbourhood.
Quite. When i restore the kingdom i get Norfolk, Suffolk, the Isle of Ely and parts of Holland in Lincolnshure
The Essex county council chamber has the names of the Essex Kings around its roof. There weren't very many of them, and mostly seemed to be called Seigbert. Although it's a while since I've been in the county council chamber!
Yes, the name gives away the saxon/angle split Essex is a different beast to Anglia
South Essex is, more rural North Essex isn't. Certainly before Londoners from the East End really started moving into South Essex after the War and new towns like Harlow and Basildon were created for them, Essex was culturally very much an East Anglia county
No, it wasn’t.
Rural Essex’s cultural affinities were more with rural Hertfordshire and even rural Middlesex.
Of course, as a neighbour of East Anglia you would expect some similarities, but to neighbour is not the same thing as to actually be.
Quite. He's ádmitted it with his assertion that English folk are more like Kiwis than they are to Scottish folk (whether this is actually true or not, he has abandoned the neighbourhood principle in so doing).
More New Zealanders have English ancestry than that from any other nation, including Scotland
Presumably the same for Australians?
He's completely wrong anyway. England is the one with most English ancestry.
I said New Zealand was the nation in the world most culturally similar to England, not that it was England!
Surely Russia is the country culturally most similar to England. Delusions of grandeur, terrible weather, their neighbours all hate them, obsessed with WW2, good at parades, half the population are pissed most of the time... We even have folk on here threatening to invade an independent Scotland and eyeing up the border lands for annexation.
We both seem to have a Russian Contakion of the Departed too.
I want the rest of time to be an endless ritual of funeral mourning for the Queen of England, which never quite ends, so that in 2065 she is “slowly proceeding up the great alt.mall of 3/Chengdu, accompanied by the robot pipers of Planet X/beta-55” and we never have to actually confront her actual death
Chin up.
Charles is too old, but it is quite possible we hit the singularity in William's reign and he reigns, if not forever, then for hundreds of years, either kept alive by anti-ageing CRISPR based gene therapy, or alternatively as a brain-download in a shiny robot body.
just an ancient kievan chant sung in a perfect 15th century perpendicular gothic chapel for the funeral of a dead 96 year old monarch descended from Alfred the Great
The last great location it existed was the lobbies of expensive office buildings. But now people waiting in lobbies (and there are far fewer of them too) are on their phones: they're not staring at an expensive flat screens.
CNN is failing first. But even Fox News is getting killed. Back in 2014/2015, they used to get almost 5m viewers during primetime. Today, on a good day, it's more like 3.5m. And on some days they're floating with the 3m mark.
How did they even think CNN+ was a good idea or viable ?
On the whole New Zealand question, Mrs Stodge (who is of the Kiwi persuasion) gets offended when someone calls her Australian based on her accent. She did laugh once when someone on a cruise ship thought she was South African.
I've been to NZ just three times - my view is Auckland is a more Asian city than I expected while Christchurch was reassuringly British and it's probably true the South Island is closer culturally to the UK than the North which has not only more Asiatic influences but has the majority of both Maori and islanders.
Distance isn't everything - the time difference between NZ and Australia, Japan, Singapore and China makes it so much easier to conduct business and establish relationships than with the UK where we are currently 11 hours behind (to become 12 in a few days).
We are talking culturally the close links between the UK and NZ, even if economically NZ trades more with Asia and the UK trades more with Europe
In time, the one will drive the other. It's no secret the Auckland property market is strongly influenced by demand from Asia - wealthy Chinese and Singaporean investors are moving into the city and its better suburbs.
I want the rest of time to be an endless ritual of funeral mourning for the Queen of England, which never quite ends, so that in 2065 she is “slowly proceeding up the great alt.mall of 3/Chengdu, accompanied by the robot pipers of Planet X/beta-55” and we never have to actually confront her actual death
National somewhat unity has a few more minutes to run then tomorrow will dawn grey, rancorous and shite
The last great location it existed was the lobbies of expensive office buildings. But now people waiting in lobbies (and there are far fewer of them too) are on their phones: they're not staring at an expensive flat screens.
CNN is failing first. But even Fox News is getting killed. Back in 2014/2015, they used to get almost 5m viewers during primetime. Today, on a good day, it's more like 3.5m. And on some days they're floating with the 3m mark.
Fox News "averaged 2.02 million total viewers in primetime this past week, -6% from the prior week".
Now that's pre-QEII. But the cable news sector is getting killed.
Tik/tok and Youtube don't generate their own news though, right? don't they sort of rely on sources like CNN and FOX for actual content?
They are video versions of PB.
It used to be that people would read the Times or the Telegraph or the Washington Post to hear about what is going on in the world, and to read analysis. Instead they now read sites like PB, or watch video content online.
And that means there is a massively more diverse set of content providers.
just an ancient kievan chant sung in a perfect 15th century perpendicular gothic chapel for the funeral of a dead 96 year old monarch descended from Alfred the Great
I've never heard it before but it is truly gorgeous.
Not a representative time to take a poll though is it. Even the most hard hearted Republican can't help but be moved by the last few days events. Need to look at polls during more boring times in a few months time.
Precisely.
At least in NZ, there’s no hostility toward the monarchy. It’s just that that the individuals are so profoundly British, and so obviously un-NZ.
I don’t know how you domesticate or repatriate the monarchy to make it more “NZ”, although I do believe that a little can go a long way.
Are they? NZ is culturally closer to the UK than any other nation on earth
So you keep saying, and it’s not untrue, but it is simply not the UK.
And it is even less UK-like than it was when I left the country in 2000.
I would actually say NZ is culturally closer to England even than Ireland or maybe even Scotland
Well, you’ve never been. So you are theorising.
I would argue it’s closer to Scotland than England, but closer of all to Australia of course.
Anyway the relevant dimension is “wanting to keep the monarchy”, and despite present polling there is now an clear nagging question of why a “foreigner” is Head of State.
It isn't, Australia is probably closer to the US culturally than the UK now, New Zealand however is culturally still closer to the UK than US.
There is also the question of wokeism self hating the ancestry of Australians and New Zealanders, which the monarchy offers a chance for conservatives in both nations in particular to react against.
In Australia for example Coalition voters still clearly back the monarchy even if Green and Labor voters mostly don't
This is like me telling you that Epping is full of Arabs.
Having driven through Epping once, thirty years ago, I am an expert on the place. It’s full of cockney wide boys and small time gangsters.
It isn't, certainly not gangsters, it is not actually in East London, though a few City wide boys maybe. However Epping and its surrounds also have plenty of farmers, Epping is the border between the part of Essex which is part culturally outer East London and the part of Essex that is more rural East Anglia proper (we move to the latter in December)
No part of Essex is in East Anglia, strictly speaking. You don’t even know about your own neighbourhood.
Quite. When i restore the kingdom i get Norfolk, Suffolk, the Isle of Ely and parts of Holland in Lincolnshure
The Essex county council chamber has the names of the Essex Kings around its roof. There weren't very many of them, and mostly seemed to be called Seigbert. Although it's a while since I've been in the county council chamber!
Yes, the name gives away the saxon/angle split Essex is a different beast to Anglia
South Essex is, more rural North Essex isn't. Certainly before Londoners from the East End really started moving into South Essex after the War and new towns like Harlow and Basildon were created for them, Essex was culturally very much an East Anglia county
No, it wasn’t.
Rural Essex’s cultural affinities were more with rural Hertfordshire and even rural Middlesex.
Of course, as a neighbour of East Anglia you would expect some similarities, but to neighbour is not the same thing as to actually be.
Quite. He's ádmitted it with his assertion that English folk are more like Kiwis than they are to Scottish folk (whether this is actually true or not, he has abandoned the neighbourhood principle in so doing).
More New Zealanders have English ancestry than that from any other nation, including Scotland
Presumably the same for Australians?
He's completely wrong anyway. England is the one with most English ancestry.
I said New Zealand was the nation in the world most culturally similar to England, not that it was England!
Surely Russia is the country culturally most similar to England. Delusions of grandeur, terrible weather, their neighbours all hate them, obsessed with WW2, good at parades, half the population are pissed most of the time... We even have folk on here threatening to invade an independent Scotland and eyeing up the border lands for annexation.
Here is a question for monarchy nerds. The Queen's crown and the King's are different shapes are they not? So do they take the best jewels and put them on Charlie's one, or does he have a completely different one?
I think they will use the same crown? St Edwards for the coronation, imperial for other state occasions.
But doesn't a King's crown not have the dipped bit in the middle?
Isn't that just heraldic style? Tudor crown vs. St Edwards.
I want the rest of time to be an endless ritual of funeral mourning for the Queen of England, which never quite ends, so that in 2065 she is “slowly proceeding up the great alt.mall of 3/Chengdu, accompanied by the robot pipers of Planet X/beta-55” and we never have to actually confront her actual death
Here is a question for monarchy nerds. The Queen's crown and the King's are different shapes are they not? So do they take the best jewels and put them on Charlie's one, or does he have a completely different one?
I think they will use the same crown? St Edwards for the coronation, imperial for other state occasions.
But doesn't a King's crown not have the dipped bit in the middle?
Isn't that just heraldic style? Tudor crown vs. St Edwards.
I don't think that's correct. The "queen" crown they are showing here is just a stylised version of St Edward's crown, one made for and worn by many male monarchs.
just an ancient kievan chant sung in a perfect 15th century perpendicular gothic chapel for the funeral of a dead 96 year old monarch descended from Alfred the Great
We are all descended from Alfred the Great (if we can trace back a few generations of UK born ancestors).
just an ancient kievan chant sung in a perfect 15th century perpendicular gothic chapel for the funeral of a dead 96 year old monarch descended from Alfred the Great
We are all descended from Alfred the Great (if we can trace back a few generations of UK born ancestors).
Are there as many people related to Alfred the Great as it seems met and have a nice story about the Queen.
Seeing the Chapel of St George's at capacity I am just thinking of HMQ there on her own whilst Boris Johnson partied.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Weddings there are fun as the two families sit opposite each other.
It's a poignant but bitter memory of HMQ alone in her grief whilst Downing Street partied like it was 1999. And there he is, the big fat lumox, party-goer in chief lauding it up at HMQ's funeral. For shame!
just an ancient kievan chant sung in a perfect 15th century perpendicular gothic chapel for the funeral of a dead 96 year old monarch descended from Alfred the Great
We are all descended from Alfred the Great (if we can trace back a few generations of UK born ancestors).
Are there as many people related to Alfred the Great as it seems met and have a nice story about the Queen.
Sadly I can't prove I am descended from Alfred the Great, only the odd Publican and I also haven't met the Queen, let alone have a nice story about it.
Seeing the Chapel of St George's at capacity I am just thinking of HMQ there on her own whilst Boris Johnson partied.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Weddings there are fun as the two families sit opposite each other.
It's a poignant but bitter memory of HMQ alone in her grief whilst Downing Street partied like it was 1999. And there he is, the big fat lumox, party-goer in chief lauding it up at HMQ's funeral. For shame!
Indeed. It's shameful that there were restrictions on funerals.
The last great location it existed was the lobbies of expensive office buildings. But now people waiting in lobbies (and there are far fewer of them too) are on their phones: they're not staring at an expensive flat screens.
CNN is failing first. But even Fox News is getting killed. Back in 2014/2015, they used to get almost 5m viewers during primetime. Today, on a good day, it's more like 3.5m. And on some days they're floating with the 3m mark.
Fox News "averaged 2.02 million total viewers in primetime this past week, -6% from the prior week".
Now that's pre-QEII. But the cable news sector is getting killed.
Tik/tok and Youtube don't generate their own news though, right? don't they sort of rely on sources like CNN and FOX for actual content?
They are video versions of PB.
It used to be that people would read the Times or the Telegraph or the Washington Post to hear about what is going on in the world, and to read analysis. Instead they now read sites like PB, or watch video content online.
And that means there is a massively more diverse set of content providers.
Yes I guess so. I was watching legal analysis of attempts by some US states (in this case Texas) to legislate against big social media censorship just this morning...
Not a representative time to take a poll though is it. Even the most hard hearted Republican can't help but be moved by the last few days events. Need to look at polls during more boring times in a few months time.
Precisely.
At least in NZ, there’s no hostility toward the monarchy. It’s just that that the individuals are so profoundly British, and so obviously un-NZ.
I don’t know how you domesticate or repatriate the monarchy to make it more “NZ”, although I do believe that a little can go a long way.
Are they? NZ is culturally closer to the UK than any other nation on earth
So you keep saying, and it’s not untrue, but it is simply not the UK.
And it is even less UK-like than it was when I left the country in 2000.
I would actually say NZ is culturally closer to England even than Ireland or maybe even Scotland
Well, you’ve never been. So you are theorising.
I would argue it’s closer to Scotland than England, but closer of all to Australia of course.
Anyway the relevant dimension is “wanting to keep the monarchy”, and despite present polling there is now an clear nagging question of why a “foreigner” is Head of State.
It isn't, Australia is probably closer to the US culturally than the UK now, New Zealand however is culturally still closer to the UK than US.
There is also the question of wokeism self hating the ancestry of Australians and New Zealanders, which the monarchy offers a chance for conservatives in both nations in particular to react against.
In Australia for example Coalition voters still clearly back the monarchy even if Green and Labor voters mostly don't
This is like me telling you that Epping is full of Arabs.
Having driven through Epping once, thirty years ago, I am an expert on the place. It’s full of cockney wide boys and small time gangsters.
It isn't, certainly not gangsters, it is not actually in East London, though a few City wide boys maybe. However Epping and its surrounds also have plenty of farmers, Epping is the border between the part of Essex which is part culturally outer East London and the part of Essex that is more rural East Anglia proper (we move to the latter in December)
No part of Essex is in East Anglia, strictly speaking. You don’t even know about your own neighbourhood.
Quite. When i restore the kingdom i get Norfolk, Suffolk, the Isle of Ely and parts of Holland in Lincolnshure
The Essex county council chamber has the names of the Essex Kings around its roof. There weren't very many of them, and mostly seemed to be called Seigbert. Although it's a while since I've been in the county council chamber!
Yes, the name gives away the saxon/angle split Essex is a different beast to Anglia
South Essex is, more rural North Essex isn't. Certainly before Londoners from the East End really started moving into South Essex after the War and new towns like Harlow and Basildon were created for them, Essex was culturally very much an East Anglia county
No, it wasn’t.
Rural Essex’s cultural affinities were more with rural Hertfordshire and even rural Middlesex.
Of course, as a neighbour of East Anglia you would expect some similarities, but to neighbour is not the same thing as to actually be.
Quite. He's ádmitted it with his assertion that English folk are more like Kiwis than they are to Scottish folk (whether this is actually true or not, he has abandoned the neighbourhood principle in so doing).
More New Zealanders have English ancestry than that from any other nation, including Scotland
Presumably the same for Australians?
He's completely wrong anyway. England is the one with most English ancestry.
I said New Zealand was the nation in the world most culturally similar to England, not that it was England!
Surely Russia is the country culturally most similar to England. Delusions of grandeur, terrible weather, their neighbours all hate them, obsessed with WW2, good at parades, half the population are pissed most of the time... We even have folk on here threatening to invade an independent Scotland and eyeing up the border lands for annexation.
Stands back.
But Russian literature surely better?
'English lit might just shade it, unless of course you discount 'the Irish contribution'.
Seeing the Chapel of St George's at capacity I am just thinking of HMQ there on her own whilst Boris Johnson partied.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Weddings there are fun as the two families sit opposite each other.
It's a poignant but bitter memory of HMQ alone in her grief whilst Downing Street partied like it was 1999. And there he is, the big fat lumox, party-goer in chief lauding it up at HMQ's funeral. For shame!
Indeed. It's shameful that there were restrictions on funerals.
Seeing the Chapel of St George's at capacity I am just thinking of HMQ there on her own whilst Boris Johnson partied.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Weddings there are fun as the two families sit opposite each other.
It's a poignant but bitter memory of HMQ alone in her grief whilst Downing Street partied like it was 1999. And there he is, the big fat lumox, party-goer in chief lauding it up at HMQ's funeral. For shame!
Indeed. It's shameful that there were restrictions on funerals.
...but not on Downing Street parties.
The memory of those parties will hang around Johnson's neck for ever. Or at least until he dies!
Some incredible footage of that long straight procession in Windsor from a bird's eye view , which both the Mail and Guardian have shown, and is more clearly like that jerkily majestic footage from 70 or 120 years ago than anything shown so far. Difficult to describe that as anything other than a very grand culmination.
You can have all the fun you like. Then you go to heaven, probably
Atheists are wankers
Nah. Atheists get to enjoy all the good bits without having to believe all the bollocks that goes with it.
Atheism is fundamentally pessimistic. Unless one is a hell-and-damnation religious zealot, having faith is optimistic. It assumes redemption and life everlasting. That said, agnosticism is probably the most logical, as an atheist can no more disprove a deity than the devout can prove one.
On the whole New Zealand question, Mrs Stodge (who is of the Kiwi persuasion) gets offended when someone calls her Australian based on her accent. She did laugh once when someone on a cruise ship thought she was South African.
I've been to NZ just three times - my view is Auckland is a more Asian city than I expected while Christchurch was reassuringly British and it's probably true the South Island is closer culturally to the UK than the North which has not only more Asiatic influences but has the majority of both Maori and islanders.
Distance isn't everything - the time difference between NZ and Australia, Japan, Singapore and China makes it so much easier to conduct business and establish relationships than with the UK where we are currently 11 hours behind (to become 12 in a few days).
We are talking culturally the close links between the UK and NZ, even if economically NZ trades more with Asia and the UK trades more with Europe
In time, the one will drive the other. It's no secret the Auckland property market is strongly influenced by demand from Asia - wealthy Chinese and Singaporean investors are moving into the city and its better suburbs.
I doubt though either NZ or the UK will ever be majority non white.
The US maybe by 2050 but it has come with resurgent white nationalism from Trump
The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew are seen following the Queen's coffin through the Norman Gate at Windsor Castle as the Scottish lament Flowers of the Forest is played.
Seeing the Chapel of St George's at capacity I am just thinking of HMQ there on her own whilst Boris Johnson partied.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Weddings there are fun as the two families sit opposite each other.
It's a poignant but bitter memory of HMQ alone in her grief whilst Downing Street partied like it was 1999. And there he is, the big fat lumox, party-goer in chief lauding it up at HMQ's funeral. For shame!
I despise Johnson as much as any man, but I thought he explicitly didn’t party when she was at the funeral, or the night before. He was away.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew are seen following the Queen's coffin through the Norman Gate at Windsor Castle as the Scottish lament Flowers of the Forest is played.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew are seen following the Queen's coffin through the Norman Gate at Windsor Castle as the Scottish lament Flowers of the Forest is played.
You can have all the fun you like. Then you go to heaven, probably
Atheists are wankers
Nah. Atheists get to enjoy all the good bits without having to believe all the bollocks that goes with it.
Atheism is fundamentally pessimistic. Unless one is a hell-and-damnation religious zealot, having faith is optimistic. It assumes redemption and life everlasting. That said, agnosticism is probably the most logical, as an atheist can no more disprove a deity than the devout can prove one.
Yes, indeed so. I erred in my self description - I think there's probably a god, or gods, or at least something that can't be explained by science - I'm just sure that no religion knows what it is either. Which makes me closer to agnostic than atheist, although proobbaly not strictly agnostic?
Seeing the Chapel of St George's at capacity I am just thinking of HMQ there on her own whilst Boris Johnson partied.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Weddings there are fun as the two families sit opposite each other.
It's a poignant but bitter memory of HMQ alone in her grief whilst Downing Street partied like it was 1999. And there he is, the big fat lumox, party-goer in chief lauding it up at HMQ's funeral. For shame!
I despise Johnson as much as any man, but I thought he explicitly didn’t party when she was at the funeral, or the night before. He was away.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew are seen following the Queen's coffin through the Norman Gate at Windsor Castle as the Scottish lament Flowers of the Forest is played.
The last great location it existed was the lobbies of expensive office buildings. But now people waiting in lobbies (and there are far fewer of them too) are on their phones: they're not staring at an expensive flat screens.
CNN is failing first. But even Fox News is getting killed. Back in 2014/2015, they used to get almost 5m viewers during primetime. Today, on a good day, it's more like 3.5m. And on some days they're floating with the 3m mark.
Fox News "averaged 2.02 million total viewers in primetime this past week, -6% from the prior week".
Now that's pre-QEII. But the cable news sector is getting killed.
Tik/tok and Youtube don't generate their own news though, right? don't they sort of rely on sources like CNN and FOX for actual content?
They are video versions of PB.
It used to be that people would read the Times or the Telegraph or the Washington Post to hear about what is going on in the world, and to read analysis. Instead they now read sites like PB, or watch video content online.
And that means there is a massively more diverse set of content providers.
Yes I guess so. I was watching legal analysis of attempts by some US states (in this case Texas) to legislate against big social media censorship just this morning...
Talk about anorak.
I have some sympathy with the Texas law. But the bit I take umbrage with is that they seek to disallow firms from simply not serving Texas. That shouldn't be possible.
If I decide, I don't want to abide by the law by not selling my product to customers in Texas, that should be fine. It'd be like the EU mandating that everything a US company sold in the UK must be compliant with EU law.
Seeing the Chapel of St George's at capacity I am just thinking of HMQ there on her own whilst Boris Johnson partied.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Weddings there are fun as the two families sit opposite each other.
It's a poignant but bitter memory of HMQ alone in her grief whilst Downing Street partied like it was 1999. And there he is, the big fat lumox, party-goer in chief lauding it up at HMQ's funeral. For shame!
I despise Johnson as much as any man, but I thought he explicitly didn’t party when she was at the funeral, or the night before. He was away.
He didn't as far as we are aware. But that doesn't detract from the fact that he was complicit in allowing that one, and was an attendee of circa five others.
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Fox News "averaged 2.02 million total viewers in primetime this past week, -6% from the prior week".
Now that's pre-QEII. But the cable news sector is getting killed.
Boris Johnson hang you head in shame!
Charles is too old, but it is quite possible we hit the singularity in William's reign and he reigns, if not forever, then for hundreds of years, either kept alive by anti-ageing CRISPR based gene therapy, or alternatively as a brain-download in a shiny robot body.
THE KONTAKION
just an ancient kievan chant sung in a perfect 15th century perpendicular gothic chapel for the funeral of a dead 96 year old monarch descended from Alfred the Great
It used to be that people would read the Times or the Telegraph or the Washington Post to hear about what is going on in the world, and to read analysis. Instead they now read sites like PB, or watch video content online.
And that means there is a massively more diverse set of content providers.
But Russian literature surely better?
You can have all the fun you like. Then you go to heaven, probably
Atheists are wankers
Talk about anorak.
It’s much better on this side, where we believe. Faith is an incredible solace
I am no Monarchist, but what an occasion.
Mates on ITV is perfectly measured in his commentary.
The US maybe by 2050 but it has come with resurgent white nationalism from Trump
The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew are seen following the Queen's coffin through the Norman Gate at Windsor Castle as the Scottish lament Flowers of the Forest is played.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1571882042907828225
Wonder if he’ll kick up a fuss if they try to inter him with the late Queen?
The gravity of that moment. The quietest it's been in my household all day.
As @Foxy pointed out, one reason she was so fulfilled and so long lived is because, this
Plus you get this ritual at the end. Who on earth would choose atheism?!
If I decide, I don't want to abide by the law by not selling my product to customers in Texas, that should be fine. It'd be like the EU mandating that everything a US company sold in the UK must be compliant with EU law.