I am profoundly sad that some of you thought I was promoting an anti vax agenda here. As I said in this thread, the evidence on vaccination reducing SEVERE disease is clear and unambiguous. I am wholeheartedly in favour of vaccination. But Covid, even for the vaccinated, is…
Robert Peston @Peston Replying to @Peston not a trivial illness. And it is also not trivial if the vaccinated population spreads Covid to the unvaccinated or the immuno suppressed. So what I hoped to do was show that even for a vaccinated population, mask wearing and social distancing are important. I am very very…
No, sorry, I’m not changing my behaviour to protect anti-vaxxers.
Nobody sensible thought he was promoting the anti-vax agenda. We thought he was talking shite and spreading information in a way that anti-vaxxers would make use of. Slightly different.
I am profoundly sad that some of you thought I was promoting an anti vax agenda here. As I said in this thread, the evidence on vaccination reducing SEVERE disease is clear and unambiguous. I am wholeheartedly in favour of vaccination. But Covid, even for the vaccinated, is…
Robert Peston @Peston Replying to @Peston not a trivial illness. And it is also not trivial if the vaccinated population spreads Covid to the unvaccinated or the immuno suppressed. So what I hoped to do was show that even for a vaccinated population, mask wearing and social distancing are important. I am very very…
No, sorry, I’m not changing my behaviour to protect anti-vaxxers.
Nobody sensible thought he was promoting the anti-vax agenda. We thought he was talking shite and spreading information in a way that anti-vaxxers would make use of. Slightly different.
I think he’s peddling a zero COVID view, which is somewhat ironic given he managed to catch it. Must do better.
Yes. No worse than three quarters of interviews with sportspeople though. (My particular bete noise on this is Sonia McLaughlin - Queen of the inane post-match question.) Presenters don't seem to believe people - even people already watching sport - will be interested in sport for its own sake.
Yes. No worse than three quarters of interviews with sportspeople though. (My particular bete noise on this is Sonia McLaughlin - Queen of the inane post-match question.) Presenters don't seem to believe people - even people already watching sport - will be interested in sport for its own sake.
And photographers assume you will want to kiss the trophy. Not that I'd ever have the opportunity, but I'd not pander to that request.
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
Given how many years its been happening I can only assume its been workshopped to death and interviewers know banal is the way to go for these things.
Yes. The best post-match questions are snooker post-match questions. Or maybe it's just that it's hard to do and Hazel Irvine is very, very good indeed.
Jesus, handling a live TV audience of hundreds of millions so calmly, age 18???!
Sharapova was only 17 IIRC when she won Wimbledon, and was quite giggly, as you'd image. Raducanu is very calm, and yet simultaneously very smiley, not reserved at all.
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
She's a Roger Federer for women's tennis. Plus a chunk of Nadal. With an extra vavaoom as a qualifier from nowhere
Youthful brilliance plus beauty plus emollient manners, she will make trillions, unless she suddenly starts on the opioids
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
Not to pour cold water on Emma’s achievement, we know for sure that Murray’s achievements were very impressive. To win three slams in the era of FedNadDjok was fantastic.
But Emma really could clean up over the next decade. Career slam has to be an ambition.
£1.8 million for the winner. £900,000 for the runner-up. Not a bad day's work.
And every sports line has just left an urgent voicemail on her agent’s phone making her offers she cannot possibly refuse…
For both of them, probably, but especially Raducanu.
It might even be that Fernandez makes more in the short term simply because America and Canada are bigger markets than Britain. I don't suppose either of them will be short of a bob or two.
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
She never even dropped a set. That is just unbelievable.
What odds would you have gotten on her winning a grand slam this time last year. Its utterly unbelievable.
Surely nailed on for SPOTY and rightly so. Looking forwards though she's surely got to be a real contender now to be a World Number One at some point soon. Its not just that she won, but how well she won.
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
Not to pour cold water on Emma’s achievement, we know for sure that Murray’s achievements were very impressive. To win three slams in the era of FedNadDjok was fantastic.
But Emma really could clean up over the next decade. Career slam has to be an ambition.
Oh yeah, not to pour cold water on Murray's achievements either. I'm just comparing the agony of following the entire Murray career up until the point he was regularly contending for Slams and major titles versus Raducanu out of nowhere.
Jesus, handling a live TV audience of hundreds of millions so calmly, age 18???!
Sharapova was only 17 IIRC when she won Wimbledon, and was quite giggly, as you'd image. Raducanu is very calm, and yet simultaneously very smiley, not reserved at all.
Way to go @kle4 . Informing @Leon about hot teen girls!
She's faultless for SPOTY, isn't she? Talented, successful, young, articulate, enthusiastic, telegenic. Nice. And it's really, really hard to win a tennis major. It's not like golf, where it gets spread around and it'squite common for a major to be won by a player from outside the top 20 or so. In tennis the same three or four players tend to share it amongst themselves. Poor old Tim Henman was for a long time the fifth best tennis player in the world yet is regarded as a plucky loser.
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
She never even dropped a set. That is just unbelievable.
What odds would you have gotten on her winning a grand slam this time last year. Its utterly unbelievable.
Surely nailed on for SPOTY and rightly so. Looking forwards though she's surely got to be a real contender now to be a World Number One at some point soon. Its not just that she won, but how well she won.
Jesus, handling a live TV audience of hundreds of millions so calmly, age 18???!
Sharapova was only 17 IIRC when she won Wimbledon, and was quite giggly, as you'd image. Raducanu is very calm, and yet simultaneously very smiley, not reserved at all.
Serena Williams was 17 when she won the US Open in 1999.
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
She never even dropped a set. That is just unbelievable.
What odds would you have gotten on her winning a grand slam this time last year. Its utterly unbelievable.
Surely nailed on for SPOTY and rightly so. Looking forwards though she's surely got to be a real contender now to be a World Number One at some point soon. Its not just that she won, but how well she won.
Emma was 400/1 at the start of this tournament.
And that's after how well she did at Wimbledon?
Before Wimbledon it would have been thousands, if you were even able to get a bet on.
It's incredible how Raducanu has recovered from her Wimbledon exit. I understand how the sudden intense focus on her then could affect her that way, and I worried at the time that she might struggle under such scrutiny again. How on earth was that only 3 months ago?
£1.8 million for the winner. £900,000 for the runner-up. Not a bad day's work.
A couple more days like that and she might even be able to afford a house.
Apparently she already has 50 million as a result of this
The endorsement offers will be insane - she better have a good agent to make sure she gets the best deals.
Yep. I remember when Maria Sharapova took the Wimbledon title at 17 and became an overnight global superstar. This will be the same for Emma Raducanu. She ticks every box for our times.
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Apparently some bloke called Joe Salisbury became the first Brit to win two doubles titles at a Grand Slam. Sorry Joe, but people just aren't as in to doubles I'm afraid.
£1.8 million for the winner. £900,000 for the runner-up. Not a bad day's work.
A couple more days like that and she might even be able to afford a house.
Apparently she already has 50 million as a result of this
I'd guess £50 million is an estimate of how much sponsors and advertisers will throw at her. It is lucky she passed A-level economics a few weeks back.
It's incredible how Raducanu has recovered from her Wimbledon exit. I understand how the sudden intense focus on her then could affect her that way, and I worried at the time that she might struggle under such scrutiny again. How on earth was that only 3 months ago?
Exactly how far she could have gone at Wimbledon did occur to me.
Tennis is rough on losers, having to sit there for ages as crowds cheer and your opponent laps it up (though can be even worse - as when Serena acted like a baby and the crowd was not happy with Osaka so it was hard on the winner too).
It is a lot easier at Wimbledon, a handshake from the Duchess of Kent and you are on your way
£1.8 million for the winner. £900,000 for the runner-up. Not a bad day's work.
And every sports line has just left an urgent voicemail on her agent’s phone making her offers she cannot possibly refuse…
For both of them, probably, but especially Raducanu.
It might even be that Fernandez makes more in the short term simply because America and Canada are bigger markets than Britain. I don't suppose either of them will be short of a bob or two.
Hold on, Emma speaks Chinese, apparently, thanks to mum, so that's another few yuan quid.
£1.8 million for the winner. £900,000 for the runner-up. Not a bad day's work.
A couple more days like that and she might even be able to afford a house.
Apparently she already has 50 million as a result of this
The endorsement offers will be insane - she better have a good agent to make sure she gets the best deals.
Yep. I remember when Maria Sharapova took the Wimbledon title at 17 and became an overnight global superstar. This will be the same for Emma Raducanu. She ticks every box for our times.
Potentially a lot bigger than Sharapova. She's got a posh British accent (north Americans will like that), she speaks English (obvs), Wimbledon will be her home stage, she's charming and educated, she's got a great immigration backstory, she's just done something absolutely unprecedented in her sport. And she is extremely good
She's minted whatever she does, her coaches, managers and family will need to be very careful as she chooses between a "normal" life and earning billions having a boring life of endless sport.
A bit of me wants to advise her to give up now. Take the £50m. Go and do something else. Be a more rounded person. Drink and party and fall in love. She's already made history
It's incredible how Raducanu has recovered from her Wimbledon exit. I understand how the sudden intense focus on her then could affect her that way, and I worried at the time that she might struggle under such scrutiny again. How on earth was that only 3 months ago?
Exactly how far she could have gone at Wimbledon did occur to me.
There were a couple of moments late on this evening when my wife wondered whether she was in trouble again. She had some sort of air machine.
It's kind of the anti-Murray story in a way. No long drawn out agonising over defeats to Novak and Roger and wondering if it would ever quite happen in a Slam for him before finally making the breakthroughs and then, once over that hump, adding a few more and stepping up to No. 1.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
She never even dropped a set. That is just unbelievable.
What odds would you have gotten on her winning a grand slam this time last year. Its utterly unbelievable.
Surely nailed on for SPOTY and rightly so. Looking forwards though she's surely got to be a real contender now to be a World Number One at some point soon. Its not just that she won, but how well she won.
Emma was 400/1 at the start of this tournament.
And that's after how well she did at Wimbledon?
Before Wimbledon it would have been thousands, if you were even able to get a bet on.
120/1 seems to be the highest matched bet, but someone who understand BF better than me may care to take a look.
She's faultless for SPOTY, isn't she? Talented, successful, young, articulate, enthusiastic, telegenic. Nice. And it's really, really hard to win a tennis major. It's not like golf, where it gets spread around and it'squite common for a major to be won by a player from outside the top 20 or so. In tennis the same three or four players tend to share it amongst themselves. Poor old Tim Henman was for a long time the fifth best tennis player in the world yet is regarded as a plucky loser.
Certainly winning one tennis slam is harder than one golf major for the men. Multiple golf majors is harder, though I don’t after how many. Maybe three.
It’s worth noting that Raducanu is the 15th different female slam winner since the start of 2017. That’s the same as different men to win a golf major in that time.
Without wanting to pour any sort of cold water on this, though, I'm not that excited. I'm pleased she won, I find her unreservedly likeable, I am full of admiration for her astonishing skill, I appreciate and am impressed by the size of the achievement. But I just can't get excited about tennis, or victories in tennis, in the same way that I can about cricket or rugby or even football. Had the equivalent happened in one of those sports I would be calling around friends to see who would be up for making a night of it. But instead, I'm going to go to bed. I think it's the individual vs team sports angle. In some ways I admire this about tennis fans. So much of the enjoyment of most sports comes from.seeimg your favoured team succeed. Whereas tennis fans primarily want to see tennis played well. Snooker falls into this category too, I think. I personally find snooker wildly entertaining and exciting, though I can understand why many do not.
It's incredible how Raducanu has recovered from her Wimbledon exit. I understand how the sudden intense focus on her then could affect her that way, and I worried at the time that she might struggle under such scrutiny again. How on earth was that only 3 months ago?
Exactly how far she could have gone at Wimbledon did occur to me.
There were a couple of moments late on this evening when my wife wondered whether she was in trouble again. She had some sort of air machine.
It's incredible how Raducanu has recovered from her Wimbledon exit. I understand how the sudden intense focus on her then could affect her that way, and I worried at the time that she might struggle under such scrutiny again. How on earth was that only 3 months ago?
Exactly how far she could have gone at Wimbledon did occur to me.
There were a couple of moments late on this evening when my wife wondered whether she was in trouble again. She had some sort of air machine.
I suspect tonight is one of these sporting occasions that will be talked about for decades to come. Two great players who will no doubt dominate women’s tennis for years to come.
@NicolaSturgeon I suspect tonight is one of these sporting occasions that will be talked about for decades to come. Two great players who will no doubt dominate women’s tennis for years to come.
£1.8 million for the winner. £900,000 for the runner-up. Not a bad day's work.
And every sports line has just left an urgent voicemail on her agent’s phone making her offers she cannot possibly refuse…
For both of them, probably, but especially Raducanu.
It might even be that Fernandez makes more in the short term simply because America and Canada are bigger markets than Britain. I don't suppose either of them will be short of a bob or two.
Hold on, Emma speaks Chinese, apparently, thanks to mum, so that's another few yuan quid.
She admitted to liking Taiwanese telly... awkward....
Without wanting to pour any sort of cold water on this, though, I'm not that excited. I'm pleased she won, I find her unreservedly likeable, I am full of admiration for her astonishing skill, I appreciate and am impressed by the size of the achievement. But I just can't get excited about tennis, or victories in tennis, in the same way that I can about cricket or rugby or even football. Had the equivalent happened in one of those sports I would be calling around friends to see who would be up for making a night of it. But instead, I'm going to go to bed.
Without wanting to pour any sort of cold water on this, though, I'm not that excited. I'm pleased she won, I find her unreservedly likeable, I am full of admiration for her astonishing skill, I appreciate and am impressed by the size of the achievement. But I just can't get excited about tennis, or victories in tennis, in the same way that I can about cricket or rugby or even football. Had the equivalent happened in one of those sports I would be calling around friends to see who would be up for making a night of it. But instead, I'm going to go to bed. I think it's the individual vs team sports angle. In some ways I admire this about tennis fans. So much of the enjoyment of most sports comes from.seeimg your favoured team succeed. Whereas tennis fans primarily want to see tennis played well. Snooker falls into this category too, I think. I personally find snooker wildly entertaining and exciting, though I can understand why many do not.
She's only lost 34 games in 20 sets of tennis to win the championship.
That's an average set of 6-1.7 which is frankly unbelievable and must be one of the best of that stat ever achieved (if anyone's bothered to count it before!)
Damn.. Chris Evert won the 1976 US Open losing only 12 games, for an average set of 6-1.
£1.8 million for the winner. £900,000 for the runner-up. Not a bad day's work.
A couple more days like that and she might even be able to afford a house.
Apparently she already has 50 million as a result of this
The endorsement offers will be insane - she better have a good agent to make sure she gets the best deals.
Yep. I remember when Maria Sharapova took the Wimbledon title at 17 and became an overnight global superstar. This will be the same for Emma Raducanu. She ticks every box for our times.
Potentially a lot bigger than Sharapova. She's got a posh British accent (north Americans will like that), she speaks English (obvs), Wimbledon will be her home stage, she's charming and educated, she's got a great immigration backstory, she's just done something absolutely unprecedented in her sport. And she is extremely good
She's minted whatever she does, her coaches, managers and family will need to be very careful as she chooses between a "normal" life and earning billions having a boring life of endless sport.
A bit of me wants to advise her to give up now. Take the £50m. Go and do something else. Be a more rounded person. Drink and party and fall in love. She's already made history
She speaks English and is said to be fluent in Mandarin which opens up the Chinese market.
Well this aged well! Simply extraordinary match. I never thought I'd see a qualifier win a Grand Slam, the tour is so professional now compared to the earlier Open Era that it just seemed impossible. And not dropping a set? Insane. Literally one of the greatest achievements in British sport for the last decade plus. I really think that.
Without wanting to pour any sort of cold water on this, though, I'm not that excited. I'm pleased she won, I find her unreservedly likeable, I am full of admiration for her astonishing skill, I appreciate and am impressed by the size of the achievement. But I just can't get excited about tennis, or victories in tennis, in the same way that I can about cricket or rugby or even football. Had the equivalent happened in one of those sports I would be calling around friends to see who would be up for making a night of it. But instead, I'm going to go to bed. I think it's the individual vs team sports angle. In some ways I admire this about tennis fans. So much of the enjoyment of most sports comes from.seeimg your favoured team succeed. Whereas tennis fans primarily want to see tennis played well. Snooker falls into this category too, I think. I personally find snooker wildly entertaining and exciting, though I can understand why many do not.
To be honest, I think you've just gone off sport, Cookie
It happens. It happened to me. For quite a few years. I just stopped giving a fuck about any of it, due to too many English football defeats
(I never gave up on international rugby, somehow, just because it is so physically intense, no matter who wins or loses)
I have regained some of my zeal tho without my teenage ardour, which is probably for the best
Well this aged well! Simply extraordinary match. I never thought I'd see a qualifier win a Grand Slam, the tour is so professional now compared to the earlier Open Era that it just seemed impossible. And not dropping a set? Insane. Literally one of the greatest achievements in British sport for the last decade plus. I really think that.
Without wanting to pour any sort of cold water on this, though, I'm not that excited. I'm pleased she won, I find her unreservedly likeable, I am full of admiration for her astonishing skill, I appreciate and am impressed by the size of the achievement. But I just can't get excited about tennis, or victories in tennis, in the same way that I can about cricket or rugby or even football. Had the equivalent happened in one of those sports I would be calling around friends to see who would be up for making a night of it. But instead, I'm going to go to bed. I think it's the individual vs team sports angle. In some ways I admire this about tennis fans. So much of the enjoyment of most sports comes from.seeimg your favoured team succeed. Whereas tennis fans primarily want to see tennis played well. Snooker falls into this category too, I think. I personally find snooker wildly entertaining and exciting, though I can understand why many do not.
Bosanquet, who invented the googly, distinguished between moving-ball games and still-ball games. Tennis falls into the same class as football and cricket, rather than snooker or golf. So that is another way of looking at it.
I suspect tonight is one of these sporting occasions that will be talked about for decades to come. Two great players who will no doubt dominate women’s tennis for years to come.
Well this aged well! Simply extraordinary match. I never thought I'd see a qualifier win a Grand Slam, the tour is so professional now compared to the earlier Open Era that it just seemed impossible. And not dropping a set? Insane. Literally one of the greatest achievements in British sport for the last decade plus. I really think that.
Best British sporting achievement since 2005.
Ashes win? I know he’s not won a major since 2014, but Rory really was exceptional for a few years. Always hard to assess someone like Lewis Hamilton (100-1, btw), but his achievements are pretty impressive too.
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For both of them, probably, but especially Raducanu.
https://twitter.com/paulhutcheon/status/1436815726732529665?s=20
Presenters don't seem to believe people - even people already watching sport - will be interested in sport for its own sake.
The market thinks that only Daley can beat her. Peaty out to 40.
@globalhlthtwit
I understand 12-15 year old vaccinations to be announced Tuesday and to start from 22nd.
No, just comes from almost nowhere and immediately stun the world without ever even looking that close to getting beaten in the tournament.
It doesn’t get better than this…
And with that, good night.
The best post-match questions are snooker post-match questions. Or maybe it's just that it's hard to do and Hazel Irvine is very, very good indeed.
Youthful brilliance plus beauty plus emollient manners, she will make trillions, unless she suddenly starts on the opioids
But Emma really could clean up over the next decade. Career slam has to be an ambition.
But this girl will win SPOTY, no question
@LeylahFernandez well done on your amazing achievements at this year’s #USOpen, it’s been a pleasure to watch. C
https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1436817023150039043?s=20
What odds would you have gotten on her winning a grand slam this time last year. Its utterly unbelievable.
Surely nailed on for SPOTY and rightly so. Looking forwards though she's surely got to be a real contender now to be a World Number One at some point soon. Its not just that she won, but how well she won.
https://twitter.com/henrymance/status/1436820552354877442?s=20
Informing @Leon about hot teen girls!
And it's really, really hard to win a tennis major. It's not like golf, where it gets spread around and it'squite common for a major to be won by a player from outside the top 20 or so. In tennis the same three or four players tend to share it amongst themselves. Poor old Tim Henman was for a long time the fifth best tennis player in the world yet is regarded as a plucky loser.
HOT TEEN GIRL
When it is possibly more justified than it ever has been, or ever will be, in the entire history of pb.com?
I thangyou
Before Wimbledon it would have been thousands, if you were even able to get a bet on.
Weird choice, frankly
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It was like the Oscars at Arthur Ashe tonight.
She's minted whatever she does, her coaches, managers and family will need to be very careful as she chooses between a "normal" life and earning billions having a boring life of endless sport.
A bit of me wants to advise her to give up now. Take the £50m. Go and do something else. Be a more rounded person. Drink and party and fall in love. She's already made history
Next year, she might to get to choose the colour and style, as a global tennnis superstar, but until this week she wears what Nike give her.
It’s worth noting that Raducanu is the 15th different female slam winner since the start of 2017. That’s the same as different men to win a golf major in that time.
But that won’t be part of the equation for SPoTY.
https://twitter.com/patrick_kidd/status/1436821370617438211?s=20
I think it's the individual vs team sports angle.
In some ways I admire this about tennis fans. So much of the enjoyment of most sports comes from.seeimg your favoured team succeed. Whereas tennis fans primarily want to see tennis played well. Snooker falls into this category too, I think. I personally find snooker wildly entertaining and exciting, though I can understand why many do not.
https://twitter.com/RoyaNikkhah/status/1436823838998810624
I suspect tonight is one of these sporting occasions that will be talked about for decades to come. Two great players who will no doubt dominate women’s tennis for years to come.
But what a winner in @EmmaRaducanu. #USOpen
https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/1436816740793606154?s=20
I suspect tonight is one of these sporting occasions that will be talked about for decades to come. Two great players who will no doubt dominate women’s tennis for years to come.
But what a winner in @EmmaRaducanu
https://twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/1436816740793606154
https://twitter.com/FergusCraig/status/1436782391499108354
It happens. It happened to me. For quite a few years. I just stopped giving a fuck about any of it, due to too many English football defeats
(I never gave up on international rugby, somehow, just because it is so physically intense, no matter who wins or loses)
I have regained some of my zeal tho without my teenage ardour, which is probably for the best
"When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love
Love, love".
When Johnson feels sad, he feels he needs to be loved, so he does something nice to make us all happy, so we will love him again. Ahh!
2 remarkable stats from the Guardian report.
"Emma Raducanu having more joy with the American courts than Prince Andrew."