JK Rowling, Britain's best-selling author and creator of teenage wizard Harry Potter, has donated 1 million pounds ($1.68 million) to the ca
The author JK Rowling has lent her support to the Better Together campaign, donating £1million to the group campaigning for Scotland to stay
To all that say that acquiring Legacy will not harm people and that poor JKR is just saying thing and it's her right..... She's comparing people wanting independance with nazis.
She litterally gives money to fight the independance, to promote the Tories (you know, the ones that are destroying NHS and every workers' rights in UK), to help TERF that attacks gay and trans rights (and also women rights because they're that stupid)....In summary, yes, she's hurting real people.
If you buy anything Potter, she will get money. It's not that hard to understand.
Oh and make yourself a favor, READ ANOTHER BOOK !
Edit: Sorry I was not clear enough since some pointed it. I wanted to say that her heinous patterns of attacking people was not recent. Not sure if she really stopped funding the anti- independance (notably because of the stance of Scotland on trans person).
It is now described as being "awarded for having a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government lasting over a long period of time".
What an insult to those actually making major contributions to these fields
King Charles looked for heroes to honour – and picked William, Kate and Camilla. Laugh? Cry? You choose
Can we really say Britain has a modernised monarchy when archaic titles are being handed out as if it were 1348, not 2024
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I wonder if I should award myself an honour, something grand-sounding. How about Most Excellent Keeper of the Belfry? It has a nice ring about it, even if I have done nothing to deserve it. That latter consideration is of course no bar to our fossilised royal family who have this week breezily been giving themselves ludicrous sounding honours as if this were 1724, not 2024.
Camilla is now, as of yesterday, the Grand Master of the Order of the British Empire. What empire, you might ask? Rockall was Ronnie Barker’s pithy response, and that was about 40 years ago.
Kate is now a Companion of Honour, an award reserved for those who have excelled in the world of the arts, medicines, or science. Is this perhaps for creative doctoring of photographs?
The Duchess of Gloucester – there’s a household name – has been made a Member of the Order of the Garter, an Order created by the king in 1348 to reward his court favourites (while, incidentally, beyond the palace walls, much of the population was dying from the Black Death).
William has not missed out either (even if Harry has). The Prince of Wales is now Great Master of the Order of the Bath. Well it won’t wash.
The honours in themselves are absurd, and make the mythical Ruritania look like a beacon of modernity. So much for the spin from the palace that the monarchy was going to be modernised under Charles. Perhaps the latest medals are to be made from recycled precious metals?
Even more absurd, if that is possible, is the notion that the royal family can with a straight face award medals to themselves.
Take the Royal Family Order. This is awarded to female members of the royal family simply for being female. And for being a member of the royal family. Not a terribly high bar if you happen to be female and are born or marry into the family.
Then there are the military honours and decorations. Charles himself has accumulated dozens of medals, enough almost to sink one of the battleships under his command as a five star admiral. Oh, and he is also a five star general in the army and a five star air chief marshal in the RAF.
What stupendous military service or acts of bravery have led to this avalanche of medals? Well, he did captain a coastal minesweeper several decades ago for a short period. And he has only crashed a plane once.
The royals in fact have amassed between them over 100 military medals and decorations, and for what? Prince Edward, the Royal Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, has never seen active service and even dropped out of his Royal Marines course because he couldn’t hack it.
Prince Andrew, to be fair, did merit his South Atlantic medal for service in the Falklands War. But did anyone stop to question whether it was a good idea, in 2011, when he was mired in accusations relating to his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and serious questions were being asked about his self-serving activities as the UK’s trade ambassador, that he should be awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, a highly prestigious award in the archaic hierarchy of these things.
This latest set of nepotistic awards makes the royal family look ridiculous, arrogant and breezily self-serving. It also illustrates graphically how our monarchy is still an imperial one, wedded to a distant past and totally out of touch with modern Britain.
Moreover, giving themselves high honours like loose change when they have done nothing to deserve them serves to cheapen the value of the honours received by those who do deserve them. What is your one medal for outstanding bravery worth when Charles can pin dozens to his chest?
The whole honours system, started in 1348, has been about patronage. This easy corruption of the ideal of merit so graphically and repeatedly shown by the royals in their own favour is consequently mirrored further down the ladder, as prime ministers hand out life peerages and knighthoods to their mates, and to those who have given their party large amounts of money.
A proper honours system which allows society to recognise outstanding achievement is very worthwhile. But we don’t have it. Those who deserve and receive honours are lost in the trivial, the corrupt and the absurd.
I am reminded of an old television advert whose punchline was: “Award yourself the CDM – Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.”
Norman Baker was the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes from 1997 to 2015
Can we really say Britain has a modernised monarchy when archaic titles are being handed out as if it were 1348, not 2024, asks former Liber
We’ll add local Tennis to Gus’s list of niche interests. How does he have time for all of these??
Juliet ships them i cannot be persuaded otherwise haha
It should have been a red flag immediately that the photographer was like hey arent you Henry Spencers kid, and the only way he knew him was from a 6 week course he taught at the academy. Thats weird. Unless Henry spent that 6 weeks talking about him and showing them a picture of him. Im just so confused. Why couldn’t he know about him from work? They could have made him a “fan” where he says he’s heard a lot about him but haven’t had the pleasure of meeting him, how he has this skyrocketing reputation for solving crimes, asking Shawn how he does it, but he’s really trying to scope out how much more he should cover his ass. But whatevs, we learn Henry’s a stickler to everyone so thats neat.
Lassiter got to fish in Shawns shoes and he did not like it. I liked this scene because of how validating it is for Shawn. Lassie’s a neutral third party, actually he’s someone who at best puts up with him, and even he had a hard time with his father. It’s a relief when someone sees something you’ve been struggling with, and says yeah thats hard, i understand! So, im glad Shawn got this.
I dont know why Gus played dead here lol
Sidenote: One of the best line deliveries from a one off character 😂
