If you grow weary of the inescapable wall-to-wall coverage of the royal wedding, just imagine what the bride and groom are going through.
I can’t be absolutely sure of this but faced with the enormity of their undertaking, Harry and Meghan might secretly be pining for a quick escape to Vegas where they would be privately married by an unconvincing Elvis impersonator.
The media frenzy means republicans can’t ignore what to us is a grim, long and drawn out piece of bad theatre but we might have some fun tomorrow by musing darkly on such regal conundrums like, what happens if Harry and Meghan have twins? Will the second born be whisked away to a distant castle with an iron mask placed on its bonce?
Full column here.
If Candice Warner, and perhaps husband, has a PR person then that person should be sacked. Sad news, like miscarriages, are a frequent and terrible event for many. They become tragic when proffered to the media. It is tawdry and for most transparent.
I can’t believe it! The idiot has done it again! She can’t blame a staff member now! Her intellect has once again come seriously come into doubt.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/sarah-hansonyoungs-australia-day-gaffe/news-story/4c7b0c7a71d5f75cb52c113535d45f23
Vale Philip Roth.
Author Phillip Roth dead at 85yo, Mr Insider. He wrote, among many, “Portnoy’s Complaint” which was made into a movie in ’72 where we were treated to young Alexander Portnoy’s obsession with masturbation which sees him making love to a raw liver his mother later serves for dinner.
https://tinyurl.com/y849fru6
Another “Barry Crocker” from the hapless Sarah Hanson- Young of the Greens, Mr Insider. She made the embarrassing blunder claiming Australia Day is celebrated in memory of Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay rather than commemorating the arrival of the First Fleet. Ms Hanson’s use by date I do suggest has long come and gone and only a Party as hopelessly out of touch and dysfunctional as the Greens would keep her on.
https://tinyurl.com/y8zcabrd
Sadly for the bloke with the red hanky on his head the Royals will continue to hold a fascination for the majority of Australian’s, be they monarchist or republican. We’ll eventually have the death of the Queen and the Duke, the installation of King Charles and a few kids born along the way.
Fitzsimons seems to follow the monarchy with the same fascinated awe and loathing that Marr has with his idee fixe on Pell and the RC’s. Inadequacy and inferiority issues envelope them both.
Looks like there is a cover-up job going on at the White House, Mr Insider. A small sinkhole has opened up on the North Lawn of the White House and it is reportedly getting bigger. Possible cause, if I may venture, is that the brilliant POTUS Trump is fast delivering on his promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington!
https://tinyurl.com/y8qadkvn
This is gold! You just couldn’t make this stuff up.
The Greens, so much shouting yet so little beyond that.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/sarah-hansonyoungs-australia-day-gaffe/news-story/4c7b0c7a71d5f75cb52c113535d45f23