smokingboot

They've always been crap. Gangsters in ermine, nothing more.

The British Press and Public like to skewer princesses. The prince who associated with Epstein and slept with under-age girls stays well shielded by his mother, whose sorrow at hearing her racist family actually described as racist is being imagined and thoroughly mourned by every nutter in the country.

Pff. Ridiculous place. Ridiculous people.

I know what will happen. If there's such a thing as reincarnation, up, down, and along various alternative realities, I'll get out of this life yelling 'never put me back there again' just in time to miss the once and future Golden Age of England Not Being A Total Knob. Or some Heavenly Messenger will just smile at me benignly and present me with a Henry VIII fat suit saying 'but it was you all along!'

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Andrew is awake. The tracheostomy is fine, he was conscious for 4 hours, he still needs kidney filtration, still has infection, his troponin levels are high but his heart seems OK. Fingers crossed. Take your time as you need, mate, but up you get.