Piers Morgan gets people talking, and some agree with him Amid the news that The Queen would not be attending the Remembrance Sunday service in London, Piers Morgan has called into question whether the palace is being completely candid about her health. There’s something we’re not being told about the Queen’s health, it’s clearly a […]
4 years ago
The event is to go ahead at 11 am as usual The Queen will no longer attend the Remembrance Sunday service at the London Cenotaph as she has sprained her back. Amidst instructions from doctors telling the monarch to rest, the BBC reports that Buckingham Palace says the Queen is “disappointed” to miss the annual […]
4 years ago
Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori
4 years ago
On Remembrance Sunday Britain remembers its war dead At 11am on the second Sunday in November (the Sunday nearest to 11 November, 1918 – the end of World War I) Britain holds Remembrance Sunday to commemorate its fallen soldiers. Up and down the country, crowds of people gather to pay their respects to their forefathers […]
6 years ago
They shall not grow old. There’s a great line in Pulp’s 1997 hit, ‘Help the Aged’. The unashamedly earnest song begins with the arresting lyric: “Help the aged, one time they were just like you, drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue.” It’s perfect because it immediately smashes any veneer of reverence we may have for […]
7 years ago
Does this really matter?
8 years ago