I’d love to see an assessment matrix for this 
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You are clearly a man with a lust for life…
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This is my nomination for post of the year.
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Haha. A day stuck in the house with a broken toddler who only wants to watch Paw Patrol and Fireman Sam will drive anyone insane. 
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Upgrade to thunderbirds (original 1965) and improve your viewing immeasurably.
Your comment about the word ‘Spend’ (and the ability to control it) is incorrect, it is Civil Service speak these days.
I acknowledged it can be used as a noun in such a context. I just don’t think it can be there.
I quite enjoyed QT the other night, especially Laurence Fox’s piece, today it’s front page of the DT, with an article inside. It formed quite an interesting talking point at work yesterday, with the majority agreeing with him.
I personally make him absolutely spot on about the Meghan Markle remark and his nod to bleeding heart liberalism that has taken over. She should take a leaf out of Katherine’s book and Henry should take one out his brother’s. I’ve always felt William’s handled things a lot better than his brother and his brother seems to want to hang onto his mother’s death like a dog with an old bone. Henry seems to come across as forgetting that his brother will have had the same upset as him and at some point you have to move on. Then trying to make his wife was coming in for the same sort of scrutiny as his mum, is rubbish. As I say Meghan Markle should have taken notes from Katherine (who if nothing else is head and shoulders above Meghan Markle in the looks department) who has taken to the extremely difficult role and one she seems to have taken to with much grace and decorum and I for one see her as a fitting Queen or whatever title she takes. Contrast this with Meghan Markle who has none of the grace of her sister-in-law and it seems never wanted to be a part of the Royal Family once she found out pdq that there is only one leading role in the Royal Family and she was never going to have and she would have to play and while some might like her h husband, it doesn’t naturally go that they will afford her the same. This looks for all the world like a watered down Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII situation. Since he was born Henry’s life has been decided by others, diaries arranged and things paid for, now with I imagine a hiatus in “public duties” I just wonder what he’s going to do and cope outside the confines of the Royal cocoon, once the holiday period has ended. It can only reflect when my dad retired. For the first few weeks it was like a long holiday, but then he needed to find things to do, as he had lost the thing he’d been doing since he was 14 and had to “reinvent” himself to as he says “to stop him losing his mind”.
I also made Laurence Fox right with the next leader of the Labour party and while I don’t agree with his politics, the fact whoever gets it, it should be about policy and ability not gender. We have slipped the PC into nonsense where gender, sexual preference, suggested gender, skin colour and any other difference can be thrown into the mix as a preference and the actual ability to do the job, doesn’t even come into it. Thankfully I’m white, male, heterosexual and Protestant, I know where I stand in the modern day order of things … way down the list.
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Anyone who thinks the press coverage between the two duchesses is balanced or fair is, frankly, a brainwashed idiot. Even when they do EXACTLY the same things. Kate can do no wrong while Meghan can do no right.
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I don’t think it’s race based I do believe it’s a really pathetic and embarrassing attempts at journalism.
Look at the last 40years of reporting of the royal
Family, journalists l have been sniping at them, trying to put one against the other (Diana V fergie). One minute they are awesome next minute they are hideous, I think the difference now is it’s just Finally far to much and Harry and others have had enough.
As for the last comment about Lawrence fox when asked
“Who should Be next labour leader”
He stopped and thought before saying Keir whathisname, and was immediately jumped on for not nominating a female. You want someone’s opinion don’t then attack them by all means ask for the rationale behind the choice but you can’t just jump down their throat like the other panellist did.
It doesn’t even need to be racially motivated. (But I do honestly wonder what other reason it could be.) The simple fact of the matter is, the press don’t like her. And if that was how my wife was getting treated, I think I’d be planning a move to Canada as well.
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I don’t think anyone would be happy to have their family abused like they do.
For a reason, she’s now a royal…
Look at the rubbish both Diana and Fergie put up with and I’m sure the level of abuse will be equal to what Meghan is dealing with now, just that now people think they can get away with a lot more now than then.
I don’t think simply now being a royal explains it. Not to the extent of the disparity between the two duchesses.
Seems overwhelmingly likely to me that race, or perhaps even nationality comes into it.
Or Classism
Or simply that they’ve decided you can get away with picking on the former celebrity as she’s “used to the attention”
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Neither of those really do it either.
I do find it interesting that many people are so determined to find a reason for the fervent dislike of her which isn’t her race?
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I simply dont like her because I feel she comes across as quite pious.
Nothing to do with race.
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I don’t think they’ve helped themselves either - talking of climate change and then using private jets etc.
William and Kate just seems to keep their heads down and get on with it.
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When Henry said he was getting married people were genuinely pleased for him, he’d found someone he loved and hopefully vice versa and who would be the support he needs. I was pretty ambivalent towards her and not in the slightest bit surprised that Henry went overseas for a wife. However what irked me was I don’t think his wife really understood how it works or wanted to understand how it works as part of the Royal Family, ie there is one main player and there is a pecking order and now primogeniture has been disposed of, her husband is a long way down that list. Also you are in the eye of the media at all times and what you do or say or have done or said (ref Princes Philip, Charles, Andrew, Edward and Henry) is fair game and you have to ride the storm and manage it. But being a Yank and dime a dozen actress, saw that marrying into the British Royal Family would be a fairy tale existence and meal ticket, but as I say failing to understand that being a member of the Royal Family is a publicly funded privileged life for which you have to accept living in the proverbial fish bowl and that you are expected to be ‘just so’ all the time, no throwing a sickie, as people you are meeting/visiting will have been preparing and excited for this moment for ages and it will be reported that you didn’t appear and questions asked by the media. You can’t just sit back and eat you cake and keep it, as vast swathes of the British public would be up in arms. I think Prince Philip “retiring” is perfectly acceptable as I feel he thought he wasn’t able to support his wife as he had done. I hope I’m as sprightly as Her Majesty and Prince Philip if I live that long. Her Majesty does not really have the option to fully retire from public life, although if she did, everyone would be supportive as her sense of duty has been irrefutable. I imagine she saw in Meghan Markle a companion for events, like Edward’s wife is.
I’m not really sure Meghan Markle understood when you are a new mum, no one is bothered about you, only the baby. Ask mum’s how many times people ask “how are you” compared to “how’s the baby”. We all do it, “how’s the baby” is a conservation opener and unless you are a husband, close family or close friend, unlikely to enquire as to the welfare of the mum, unless they had a really rough time of the delivery and you knew about it.
All in all the majority couldn’t give a monkey’s about her skin colour, but her petulance as someone invited to be a member of the Royal Family is unforgiveable, to many British people and the British media. I don’t think it helps that in Henry there is a bloke who likes to perpetuate a public fragility in relation to his mum, by-passing or over-looking any of his brother’s feelings on the matter. I wouldn’t mind betting that in a personal moment, she’s played the it’s me and our son, or them line. The report today on what the conditions are for their walking away is, probably not what they had in mind. I wonder how they will go down in Quebec if they do settle in Canada?
I really feel for The Queen in all of this, she seems to have spent her life putting duty in front of everything and then to have one of her grandsons treat her like this, must be a kick.
For the liberal left the race, gender or any other sort of card (God knows there are enough of them) is what they will play, to avoid objectivity.
Again. The press doesn’t portray the two couples fairly. William and Kate were praised for taking an easyJet flight, but then it turns out that to arrange that an empty plane flew a short flight to arrange it: