Royalty under Scrutiny?

Royalty under Scrutiny?

I must admit I am a republic kind of person. Don't like any monarchies anywhere. As my father used to say: they have the same needs as us, the same demanding bodies -- they need to fill their stomachs, evacuate just like us. So what's special? 

   So royalty - their divine right - is a myth, like the ones Harari mentioned in his Homosapiens. They exist and are revered (like the banks,the Gods...) because we allowed that myth or legend to exist. We promote that construct by our actions, our words and our unthinking collusion. 

I have huge respect for our Queen, because she has been durable and committed to her role. Take her out of the equation and what is left is an empty familial group without purpose or point, except their own perpetuation.   

   As to Harry and Meghan, I wouldn't care less as to what they do next. So long as they go quietly and don't clog up the news with the family scandals. Or stay and be happy. Harry, I hope, retains that quicksilver quality and generosity of spirit that is not too obvious in other royals.

   I notice that Prince Andrew's shenanigans were quickly glossed over -- let's focus on Meghan now. Thank you, Media. Bullies as ever.

   And, of course our delightful Media have decided that Meghan is fair game. Especially because she is not snow white and submissive. The global warming, the Iran crisis, all of this is Meghan's fault, in case you didn't know.  How dare she -- non-white, foreign...

   And, incidentally, why is it always a black person who is called upon on T V to discuss the race issue in this. Where are all the fair-minded white people who can see the obvious?

The Mad POTUS

Completely potty POTUS. I used to think we could laugh him off. Ignorant, babbling, tweeting, mad Trump. I forgot that he was also evil, and that the American people, in their infinite electoral wisdom,  had presented him with unassailable power. (Not unlike our own masochistic workers in the North.) Now he is is threatening world peace and nobody knows where to look. His cohort of hawks will pull the strings and the President will sway on his feet, make his finger and thumb into a circle, and pronounce.
 
   We get profundities from the likes of Jeremy Hunt. Apparently, nobody can predict what will happen next  in Iraq. We need a failed Conservative leadership candidate to tell us that? Johnson, of course, is keeping well out of it.

   The PM is probably recovering from a fortnight in Mustique. He needs to pause and see if he can think at all before opening his mouth. And he has to pass a comb through his hair. Or, maybe, Cummings is not available to tell Johnson what to say. He, now, is busy devising strategy for new Civil Service appointments. He's busy.

   Where are all the big names in our Tory mis-government? We have our soldiers in Iraq, likely to be assaulted.  Has no one of those gloating Tories anything to say? Like Trump made a huge miscalculation. Like the President needs to draw his claws in.

  We have enough natural disasters in the world now without man-made ones joining the act. Australia burns, S E Asia drowns. Though the media is not giving much airtime to the drowning Asians.

   I suspect the world has gone into a masochistic phase. Why would a working class electorate in the North of England vote Tory otherwise? Why would a tolerant Indian population get fixated on religion and Modi? And why indeed Trump?

   In my most despairing moments I tell myself -- you just get on with your reading and writing, Anand. It's cold, but on dry days you can still do a walk in the garden with Lily, the dog, running around with unexpected joy. Five years will go quickly by; we should be wondering how we can help the folks who have shot themselves in the foot handing their fate over to Johnson.

   We gave up on a good leader, who stood for equality and fairness. Now we, the Labour Party want to elect ANOTHER leader. What was wrong with Corbyn? We can't blame him for the BREXIT debacle. Labour is full of promising leadership aspirants, I hope they have plans for what to do for the next five years. And not just for themselves or the Party.