86 Sentaler camel coat, brown beret and £630 Stuart Weitzman’s Hiline boots, Meghan walked arm-in-arm with Harry.
She was clutching a brown leather Chloe pixie bag, which sells for £1,400.
£3000 +/- and that’s before we consider her frock and her underwear…
Rub our faces in it why don’t you, Miss Marple!
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Your last line says it all tris.
Ever since I watched my parents sign the Scottish Covenant in 1950, I have never been able to understand why we allow another country to govern us. Especially these days, when the elderly, the poor, and the most vulnerable in our society, are being subjected to the vilest treatment imaginable from the most heinous, and incompetent, U.K Government I have ever lived under.
While I am aware that support for independence has risen according to the latest poll, it remains a puzzle to me why anyone with a modicum of common sense, and humanity, would wish to remain under the control of the evilest Westminster administration, certainly in recent history, but apparently a sizeable number of Scots still prefer this option.
Maybe it’s my age, but I feel if we don’t take the opportunity to free ourselves from all that being part of the U.K entails in the now inevitable second Scottish Independence Referendum, then it will be a long time before another chance becomes viable.
While I don’t really fancy campaigning throughout the winter months, I believe we have to have a vote before the 29th, March, 2019, as this will be our best opportunity to hammer home the absurdity of leaving the E.U, costing the Scottish economy tens of thousands of jobs, and many billions of pounds in revenue.
Can we do it, in the face of what will be the greatest, and most hate filled, propaganda campaign ever launched by the British Establishment against a friendly neighbour. Never forget, they have almost the complete support of the M.S.M, so the daily barrage of fake news will be unrelenting.
Can we do it? Time will tell.
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Well, I’m up for it when those who know more than I do say that it is the time…
And like you, I’d rather do it in the summer, but when they call, I’ll do my bit.
I don’t understand why someone would let a bunch of hateful psychopaths rule their country, doing what they do.
I fear as the Brexit disaster comes home to roost things are going to get so much worse.
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A nice pic of Humza Yousaf, presumably because of the trains, and I’m sure the man would understand exactly what I mean by saying that he’s a far better Christian than that bunch of expletives deleted you mentioned. Come to think of it, Glasgow Central Mosque – I think I have my facts straight – has been doing wonderful things producing food for the homeless, things like that. One description of the Church of England that’s been pretty valid for a good long time now is that it is the Tory Party at prayer… so best not look for any liberation theology anywhere around there.
For the politicos involved, they’re all whited bloody sepulchres. Just to be seasonal about it.
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Yes, Humza was there becasue of the trains, for which he takes no end of stick, but which have consistently been the best in the UK for a long time… and he’s already got plans for a government bid for the next round of franchises.
Religion doesn’t really have a monopoly for decency. There are many good people of all religions and none.
What I can’t stand is this trite rubbish that these London politicians throw at us about what good Christians they are, all the time treating those less well off than themselves like some kind of trash.
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I find the criticism of Humza by Tories quite hypocritical since UK Tory policy is that the running of railways is nothing to do with government after the award of the franchises, a position firmly maintained by the UK Department of Transport eg vis—a-vis Southern Trains.
Indeed, I vividly recall Cecil Parkinson asserting in a TV interview at the time of privatisation that it was precisely because railways are vital to the national interest it was all the more important that government should have no part in running them. This statement was made with the dreadfully earnest expression which always served Mr P as justification for unsupported assertions.
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We were also going to save money, becasue British Rail cost a fortune.
Not quite sure what happened to that aspiration…
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Just so, Tris. If we go back to Victorian times, there were even those who argued that the State had no business doing poor relief at all because it deprived good Christians of opportunities to exercise their Christian charity… Ah well, Dickens found that sort of thing sickening too.
I miss my Moroccan bro – a truly wonderful, decent, good person. Smart too. He told me, among many other things and many years ago now, about the doctrine of zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam. Here’s the Wikipedia thingmie on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat. The motto of the National Zakat Foundation (nzf.org.uk, but “national” in the sense of being based in Lunnon) is “Our vision is a faithful, confident, selfless and self-sufficient Muslim community in the United Kingdom. ”
I particularly like the “selfless” bit. That’s your actual caritas, that is. Can’t say fairer than that, can they really, guv?
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As one of the Five Pillars of Islam, zakat is a religious obligation for all Muslims who meet the necessary criteria of wealth.[7] It is not a charitable contribution,[8] and is considered to be a tax, or obligatory alms.
It’s probably the Christian equivalent of tithing …
It seems that the punishment for failing to honour your obligations is a lot more severe than that for Christians who do not give a tenth of their wealth to the church.
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As far as I can tell, zakat is viewed more as a moral obligation than a legal one under secular law at least, and you don’t get the spiritual purification aspect of it if you don’t do it voluntarily. As an arrangement for keeping people from starving, and for reminding the rich and the powerful that they are part of the community and it is their duty to give back, it is pretty good, I think. It also predates new-fangled notions such as national insurance and social security by quite a few centuries! It’s worth remembering too that there is no equivalent of the Catholic or any other church in Islam, so giving zakat to a local imam was not like tithing to the Church in the centralized, institutional sense.
Many years ago – 40, maybe, when we both had more hair – I asked my Moroccan bro what he knew about the Thousand and One Nights – and wow, what a lot he told me! In particular, he knew some Moroccan folk tales about Harun ar-Rashid, who was a real person, Caliph of Baghdad in the 8th century – his name translates as Aaron the Just. The folk tales portrayed him as a romantic figure who would do things like giving his bodyguards the slip and sneaking out of his own palace dressed in civvies to go where the common people of Baghdad gathered, just so he could find out at first hand what their concerns were, and as a result, sometimes he would provide unexpected relief and even largesse to help people overcome personal tragedies and losses.
Here’s the URL of the Wikipedia article about him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid. I draw your attention to this little snippet in it: “An alliance was established with the Chinese Tang dynasty by Ar-Rashid after he sent embassies to China”. This would have been about 500 years before Marco Polo made his trip to the Middle Kingdom…
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Ah yes – “Peter’s Pence” – that is the phrase I finally found hiding under my mental bed. In other words, donations or payments made directly to the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, rather than through local parishes. Thank you Wiki for the confirmation!
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What would we do without Wiki!!?
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That’s interesting, Ed, about Marco Polo.
And Rashid sounds interesting… Wasn’t there a Pope that did that sort of thing?
Or was that a film I saw.
“Probably”, he said, darkly.
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Non – EU passport queues were generally around 90 – 120 minutes at Lisbon in October (which means incidentally that luggage will sit on the carousel for that length of time, which seems like an excellent theft opportunity for those so inclined).
My guess is that medium sized single terminal airports will be the greatest problem for the blue passports, unlike multi – terminal places and smaller regional airports with far fewer non – EU arrivals. Experience will tell, and I look forward to travellers’ tales from 2019 onwards.
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Yes. It will be interesting