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Tomorrow, if it weren’t for the lockdown, I’d be buttoning a poppy on my lapel and heading to church under the winter sky for one of the most solemn ceremonies on this country’s calendar.
Like millions of Britons on Remembrance Sunday, I would honor and thank those who died for us.
For part of the service, we would gather to pray in front of a war memorial with the names of the local boys, fathers and brothers.
We spent our two minutes of silence trying to understand the courage and sacrifice of the poor souls. And there is also the most moving moment of all, since the air is crossed by the Last message of the clarion.
Although not this year. Not with Boris, the first Prime Minister to cancel Remembrance Sunday.
Boris Johnson, the first prime minister to cancel Remembrance Sunday, used a poppy during a visit to a Covid testing center at De Montfort University in Leicester yesterday.
Any veteran who dares to attend his local church, perhaps in a walker or wheelchair, with medals on his chest, faces a £ 200 fine. How could Boris, an armchair general if ever one, having made attending a Remembrance Day service a crime?
Do you have any idea how important it is to those who have fought for us and for the country? Do any of your counselors have a compassionate Christian bone in their body?
Not surprisingly, royal generals have lined up in ranks to condemn the decision. The Falklands commander, Major General Julian Thompson, said it was “absolutely ridiculous.”
Lord West of Spithead stated that it was ‘extraordinary’ that the Government, having declared that outdoor events can still take place, forced veterans to commemorate fallen comrades outside in the cold. “This puts them at greater risk,” he said. They will die of pneumonia instead of Covid.
No wonder royal generals have lined up in ranks to condemn the decision. The Falklands commander, Major General Julian Thompson, said it was “absolutely ridiculous.” In the photo, a lady places a wreath of flowers at the base of the Cenotaph in 2006.
Thousands of people, army veterans and military personnel participate in the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph on November 10, 2019
A Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, about 1945
Yes, there will be a socially estranged, government approved streaming service at Westminster Abbey for a handful of warriors. But only a Philistine could believe that a Zoom Remembrance Day service could replace the real one.
And why couldn’t similar services be extended to local churches? They are huge buildings.
As former Defense Secretary Sir Michael Fallon put it: “We trusted veterans to risk their lives for the country, but we can’t trust them to be six feet away in church.”
Boris will regret this Sunday. Veterans will remember it all too well, for all the wrong reasons.
You don’t have to love Mrs. T!
Before her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher on the award-winning series The Crown, Gillian Anderson says she had to suppress her personal antipathy towards Maggie.
“I had to get to a point where it had nothing to do with my views on their policies or their actions,” he says. Like Meryl Streep, who also expressed deep doubts before receiving her Oscar for playing The Iron Lady.
What happens to these women?
From the way they behave, you would think they would rather play Myra Hindley!
Meanwhile, lawyers for protester Black Lives Matter Astrophel Sang, 19, who tried to set a flag on fire after climbing the Cenotaph, said their client, crying in court, regretted his actions. Decency issues aside, ignorance is not a defense. Long time to cry in jail.
Listen to Susannah, ladies
Susannah Constantine reveals she was a “highly functional” alcoholic 20 years ago when she told us what not to wear on her hit television show.
Now he’s been seven years alcohol-free, keeping his family together, and well done.
To her many fans, including me, she was the British-style Coco Chanel, warning us that ‘less is more’.
Susannah Constantine (pictured) reveals she was a ‘highly functional’ alcoholic 20 years ago when she was telling us what not to wear on her hit TV show.
His permanent mantra was that ‘you can’t do legs and t * ts’ at the same time.
A lesson that clearly did not reach most of the girls who celebrated the last night before closing in cities across the country last Wednesday.
Well done, Gary Lineker, for keeping your promise to host an asylum seeker. For 20 days he housed Baloch refugee Rasheed, a lawyer who fled persecution to continue his studies here in the UK, while vowing to return to the borders of Iran and Pakistan to fight for justice there.
I don’t want to be mean, but wasn’t it a bit selfish of Gary to share Rasheed’s effusive thank you note on social media? I’d say Gary Mug Of The Day does.
Kylie suspects
Everyone’s favorite neighbor, Kylie Minogue, says she found the confinement very difficult, so much so that she finally had to tell us, ‘I’m fighting here.
Surely it is pure chance that the new album of the billionaire and happily loved pop princess, yes, managed to record one, despite these difficult times, comes out this week.
Everyone’s favorite neighbor, Kylie Minogue, says she found the confinement very difficult, so much so that she finally had to tell us: ‘I’m fighting here’
It is suspected that the only tears that will not be shed in the White House if Donald Trump is evicted will be those of his wife Melania.
Her elegant pantsuit and even sharper stilettos when she stepped off stage right on election night said it all.
She would no longer have to suffer those hideous stepchildren who stalk her in her every move, mainly Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who tried to remove her as First Lady.
No more lying in bed next to a pillow stained with fake tan.
What is the bet that the kind and private Melania of that marriage will make before the final votes are counted?
Don’t be so greedy Mel
Former Spice Girl Mel B is suing Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy, the father of her 13-year-old daughter Angel, to increase the tens of thousands of pounds she receives from him in child support a year.
Maybe Eddie should have taken note of his hit song Wannabe: ‘If you want to be my lover, you have to, you have to make (alimony) last forever.’
Too much for the independent and fighting girl power.
Former Spice Girl Mel B (pictured in Loose Women in 2019) is suing Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy, the father of her 13-year-old daughter Angel, to increase the tens of thousands of pounds she receives from him in child support. child per year.
The researchers conclude that to encourage children to eat vegetables, they must use “mindfulness” of food.
Put a bean in your child’s mouth, ask him to eat it slowly while you observe how it tastes and feels in his mouth, then have a conversation about it.
Crikey, what happened to ‘eat whatever is on your plate, sun or go to bed hungry’?
++ Westminster Wars ++
- Health Secretary Matt Hancock decrees that travel for those seeking to go abroad to “assisted dying” is allowed under lock and key. That’s one way to reduce Britain’s death statistics.
- Boris was forced to apologize after sneaking out of the camera when former Prime Minister Theresa May, whom he deposed, rose to speak out against his shutdown measures. No surprises: Boris never had much respect for the women he had trampled on.
- By announcing an additional billions for an extension of his licensing system until next March, Rishi Sunak says he is “digging deep” for a “brighter future.” In fact, as we steal from our children and future generations, who will have to carry this debt in perpetuity.
My hero is tarnished
Having once met one of my heroes, Frank Gardner, at Heathrow Airport years ago, I was struck by the way his beautiful wife Amanda stood beside him in his wheelchair, not as a caregiver but as a loving consort.
She is the wife of 22 years, according to him, she helped him overcome the devastating terrorist attack that paralyzed him and helped keep his little family together.
And so I felt a bit of disappointment that in his BBC documentary Being Frank, it was his new girlfriend, weather girl Elizabeth Rizzini, who took center stage to talk about her new boyfriend. There was no interview with Amanda.
Who knows how the marriage ended. Frank said they grew apart, but it must have been agony for Amanda and her daughters to see their new girlfriend parade like that, when it was they who traveled the long miles with him.
