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waves in solidarity from Australia
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I have mixed feelings about this. I don’t believe that the monarchy as an institution should exist at all.
But I had a grudging respect for her as a diplomat and for her sense of duty.
But any respect is quickly being driven into the ground on a petty, personal basis considering where I work.
It’s non-stop fawning at NewsUK at the moment, and I was getting calls from producers all last night while at home, asking for changes to rundowns and permissions. I even had to teach one how to copy & paste.
And it would seem like it’s going to be used as an excuse to pressure people into working longer hours for the duration. I suspect that any announced bank holiday won’t apply to us.
Rassin’ frassin’
At the same time though, it’s fascinating to be inside a large media organisation during these events.
I was at college doing Media Studies when Di died, and it was similarly interesting to be able to view the events through the lens of academia.
Less about the person, and more about observing how the various media outlets reported the news of her death.
The rather reassuring and banal result being that actually, the systems that keep the wheels turning in the media don’t really change. There’s a burst of initial panic, then things settle down to normal patterns, except that diversity of content drops off a cliff.
Still won’t stop me sulking like a teenager if I don’t get my bank holiday though.
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Arghh, not the whole “the monarchy is a net profit maker because Crown Estates” thing. It’s not their land. That is, the Crown Estate is not the private property of the individual born Prince Charles of Edinburgh. It belongs to the Crown, which is a weird and confusing (probably deliberately so) amalgamation of an office of the state and the state itself. It is thus state land, and will remain state land if we become a republic. Just like it did in Barbados last year.
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He’s in his 70s now
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That and having a civilised health insurance system. As I understand it that, more than a British head of state or spelling, is how Canadians distinguish themselves from the “free”-market dystopia to their south.
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Nah, just a mandatory mourning period where anyone deemed not sufficiently sad or smiling in public is hounded by a pack of self appointed officials and beaten with a commemorative copy of the Radio Times until they weep gammonary tears.
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He’ll always be Chucklefuck to me.
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Fabulous work, boys 
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ETA: Tesco Wales is also still in colour.
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Not so shite being Scottish yesterday…
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We are still trying to get rid of that Cecil Rhodes statue in Oxford. It doesn’t need to be destroyed, it could be moved to a museum, I hear the British Museum are experts in this area.
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