I have a feeling the reign of King Charles and Queen Camilla will be short... We'll be back here within the decade doing it all over again for Wills and Kate IMO.
Morning all! Just back from a street party. A pretty small affair, really. A cul-de-sac behind our road who to be honest declare a street party at the drop of a hat. Yet it was fun, and interesting, and cross-generational. The coronation itself acted as no more than a conversation starter with people who you might otherwise not know - though the (mildly flirtatious) woman who had celebrated the previous coronation in the same house and at a street party on the same street was interesting (she mildly lamented that there were only three people on the road who had been there for the previous coronation, though I found it amazing it was as many as that). I (surprisingly) enjoyed the coronation quiche someone had baked, and (less surprisingly) a large amount of cake and beer. There was a lot of bunting up, but really, people were much keener to talk about a) each other, b) football, or c) hyper-local celebrities of yesteryear, in particular Pat Phoenix, Joe Corrigan, and Syd Little, and the possibly salacious parties enjoyed by one of them. The evening then condensed into the pub that one of my freind/neighbours has built in his back garden.
No street parties in my area, sadly. Thanks for the report.
Similar criticisms have been made on here. The purpose of the coronation was not explained; the service was beautiful, but dragged; the more religious parts seemed out of kilter, out of time. There was the tin-eared demand, later amended to opportunity, for us plebs to pledge allegiance. The weather put the kybosh on street parties but there was little discernible interest even from the retail sector. Right from the start, even the King seemed to set an apologetic rather than celebratory tone.
I went down the shops during the ceremony. It was actually pretty busy in the supermarket. No sense of a national event taking place at all.
The timing of the coronation was no doubt meant to divert attention from Sunak's predicted local election woes but it could well backfire.
Tory MPs mulling over their party's woeful performance in Thursday's locals will have been reminded today of the PM they could have had, and could still have.
Part of the art of living a good life is taking a role that fits you well and not squeezing yourself into a wrongly-shaped hole. Stretch, certainly, but don't contort.
Public life is better for having Penny Mordaunt in it, but carrying a sword with style, panache and strong biceps does not a Prime Minister make.
Yes. Very true both paragraphs.
It does however give her one more talent than the current Prime Minister.
I thought it rather odd to have a fairly strict Hindu do the reading of the Gospel. He obviously doesn't believe it, but faked sincerity fairly well.
Agreed. That was particularly poor. But why have religion anyway? A celebration of the country would have been better, and more likely to enthuse, yet we got a prolonged sermon from the 1890s.
Most of the UK population believe in God and without any religious element having watched the ceremony it would have lacked some of the Majesty and sacred nature it had.
Britain’s FBI was drafted in by Scottish police to help with their investigation into the SNP’s finances, it can be revealed.
Officers from the National Crime Agency, which leads the fight to cut serious and organised crime, were commissioned several months before Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, was arrested.
The specialist team were asked to assess the progress of the investigation, bringing a fresh pair of eyes to the evidence collected, and identify any possible lines of inquiry.
The officers, likely to have been financial crime experts, conducted a “peer review” of the operation over several weeks between October and December.
Police Scotland has been investigating reports of fraud over £600,000 of donations apparently ring-fenced for the campaign for independence since 2021. Specialist officers in Scotland have been asking senior figures in the SNP about their tax affairs, sources said.
Morning all! Just back from a street party. A pretty small affair, really. A cul-de-sac behind our road who to be honest declare a street party at the drop of a hat. Yet it was fun, and interesting, and cross-generational. The coronation itself acted as no more than a conversation starter with people who you might otherwise not know - though the (mildly flirtatious) woman who had celebrated the previous coronation in the same house and at a street party on the same street was interesting (she mildly lamented that there were only three people on the road who had been there for the previous coronation, though I found it amazing it was as many as that). I (surprisingly) enjoyed the coronation quiche someone had baked, and (less surprisingly) a large amount of cake and beer. There was a lot of bunting up, but really, people were much keener to talk about a) each other, b) football, or c) hyper-local celebrities of yesteryear, in particular Pat Phoenix, Joe Corrigan, and Syd Little, and the possibly salacious parties enjoyed by one of them. The evening then condensed into the pub that one of my freind/neighbours has built in his back garden.
No street parties in my area, sadly. Thanks for the report.
If you avoided the TV you would never have known it was on up here.
The timing of the coronation was no doubt meant to divert attention from Sunak's predicted local election woes but it could well backfire.
Tory MPs mulling over their party's woeful performance in Thursday's locals will have been reminded today of the PM they could have had, and could still have.
Public life is better for having Penny Mordaunt in it, but carrying a sword with style, panache and strong biceps does not a Prime Minister make.
Sure, but we don't seem very good at selecting good candidates for the job anyway, so might as well go with panache.
Well, this is annoying. Despite qualifying finishing eight and a half hours ago the markets aren't fully up. I tend to quite like checking the group markets but they're nowhere to be seen...
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F1: splendid slice of fortune turned my Perez 9.5 bet green as could be. Will start writing the pre-race tosh shortly.