I'm watching BBC for a bit at the moment.
It looks like the UK barely left the middle ages. What a bunch of dressed up people as if the walked straight out of a Shakespearean play.
Every detail declared as a tradition of uttermost importance, commented by professors and what not.
As if television, radio and the Internet were not invented, full grown officials are declaring that Charles is king now.
No wonder there are so many people who voted to leave the EU. They want to live in the age of Henry VIII.
Astonishing.
The BBC are, I think, terrified of being accused, particularly by papers like the Daily Mail, of not showing sufficient deference and respect. They still remember, as do I, the outrage in some quarters, whipped up by the right-wing press, when, in 2002, Peter Sissons broke the news of the Queen Mother's death
while wearing a burgundy tie, and are clearly determined not to make the same mistake twice, particularly while they're struggling to retain the licence fee when the government wants to abolish it.
They were criticised for going overboard with their coverage of Prince Phillip's death, and I really don't think they're going to be able to keep this up for the full two weeks --- thank heavens for the internet, Netflix and other on-demand channels.
I'm more worried about the way Parliament has had to shut down, just as a new administration takes over and presents a massively expensive and controversial programme to subsidise energy prices, and as a number of other equally urgent domestic problems require immediate attention.
Mourning has halted debate just when the opposition wanted to put pressure on new PM – but Labour conference will go ahead
www.theguardian.com