Another December has come around in the United Kingdom, the nation that God forgot. Every year in recent times has felt like the dumbest one since records began, but it will be difficult to top 2022.

So, what the hell happened here? Firstly, the big one, the queen went and died. This was not surprising: she was very old and dying at the end is the traditional way of a human lifespan. But it was weird. People queued overnight to see her coffin and became apoplectic with rage when celebrities were found cutting the line to do so. Somehow Paddington Bear got adopted as the monarchists’ mascot of choice, with mourners (and boy did people go ham on the mourning) leaving plastic bags of marmalade sandwiches outside Buckingham Palace.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/united-kingdom-queen-elizabeth-strikes-energy-prices-disaster.html

 

From the OP

 

”But maybe things are getting so bad that the prevalent mood of “put up with it quietly” will turn. Maybe if enough people are in enough misery, things will have to change, by brute force if nothing else.”

 

A call to arms, seems a bit extreme. 
 

Merry Christmas everyone. 

Seems like a <deleted> poor article from an American based in England, kinda like those videos on Facebook where people are feigning surprise that things aren’t done the same all over the world 

Nowt funnier that folk. 

13 hours ago, Scott said:

But it was weird. People queued overnight to see her coffin and became apoplectic with rage when celebrities were found cutting the line to do so

Queueing is a British tradition and queue jumpers are frowned upon , doesn't matter if you are queuing for a bus or queuing to pay your respects , queue jumpers are not appreciated at any time 

A very poorly written UK hit piece by some random publication.

 

Not sure how this qualifies as World News. 

On 12/22/2022 at 10:44 AM, Andrew Dwyer said:

Seems like a <deleted> poor article from an American based in England, kinda like those videos on Facebook where people are feigning surprise that things aren’t done the same all over the world 

The author is Imogen West-Knights. British, although she did appear to spend slightly over one year as the head of the Stockholm Feminist Film Festival.