The researchers had a hunch he was there. ATOS pass Richard III’s skeleton as fit to work.
Joking aside, the discovery of Richard III’s body is fascinating and wonderful. Aside from Shakespeare’s brilliant play (which is evidently not as physically inaccurate as we have been told for years), and the question of who killed the Princes in the Tower, there is a romance about lost dynasties which appeals to a deep human yearning for a golden age when things were somehow better, and for “lost futures”. What might have been, had those evil Stanleys not turned on Richard at Bosworth and put their miserable Welsh accountant on the throne?
Richard is described in today’s newspapers as the last English King. The Plantagenets were of course Angevin. The last English King – indeed the only English King of all England – was Harold Godwinson. Now there’s a lost dynasty for you.
We now know that Richard’s “Claim of Right” was almost certainly true and Edward IV a bastard, as his father was nowhere near his mother for months around the purported conception. But the so-called Royal line is, I am quite sure, sprinkled with bastards and no line at all. Not to mention that George I was 39th in line to the throne when given it 300 years ago, but the first Protestant.
Monarchy is bollocks, and something we should have outgrown a long time ago. Nice to see that today’s Prince Harry retains the tradition of remorseless homicide though.
Leicester University deserve congratulations on a genuine achievement. I hope Richard can now be reburied as soon as possible – as a Catholic, which is what he was. He was a human being. The degradation and display of his fresh corpse were horrible; but there is a danger of repeating it with a po face and feigned serious intent.
“Fred : could you explain why you’re against”
I haven’t said I was against anything.
Oh, sorry, all those anti-Israel, anti-US, anti-UK,anti-France posts must be by another Fred then.
It’s ok, Habbabkuk, it’s ok…
…No, no one’s going to do anything…
…That’s good. yes… just… put the gun down…
…good… good… deep breath… that’s really good…
…now, just… send me an e-mail..
As Jives so wisely says
Jives
9 Feb, 2013 – 1:41 am
Just ignore the troll.
“But since it’s by Islamic findamentalists, not a peep!”
I see plenty of criticism of Islamic fundamentalists here, like the ones trying to overthrow the government of Syria.
Because people don’t go delving into the depths of the BBC web site to find a story about some obscure bloke nobody ever heard of bumped off in a country most people don’t know where it is doesn’t make them biassed, quite the converse I would think.
When US drones are assassinating people every day, America have just admitted they have a list of people they intend to assassinate no doubt killing plenty of innocent women and children as well, I’m just wondering why you singled out this story.
Just a word about the troll. I don’t really think he is a troll in the ‘controlled’ sense of the word. His comments (which he mistakenly calls posts) are too long. I vary rarely read them. Life’s too short. But not an average troll.
@Mary
As with most televisio, it diverts our attention from the realms of possability
into perspectives of a reality that is auctioned.
I believe ‘love’ to simply be a measurement of caring, without love would there be no hate.
Who cares?
“Oh, sorry, all those anti-Israel, anti-US, anti-UK,anti-France posts must be by another Fred then.”
Second straw man argument in a row.
At the risk of offending one person here my modesty will not prevent me from sharing this with friends who comment here.
Two Swedish colleagues and myself wrote to Senator Bob Carr, Australia’s Foreign Minister, to ask why he courted the company of Sweden’s ambassador to Australia, Sven Olof Petersson. Petersson has a track record for rendition to countries where torture is endemic and has also called for Julian Assange to go to Sweden (presumably so he can be handed over to the CIA). The reply from his office was totally evasive.
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2013/02/08/pressure-australia-to-act-on-behalf-of-wikileaks-assange/
Julian Assange was a guest on last night’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher”, aired at 10PM ET on HBO.
http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real-time-with-bill-maher-blog/2013/2/7/guest-list-february-8-2013.html
Should anyone find a link to that interview i’d be grateful if they could link it here or in the previous Amelia Hill thread, where some discussion on Assange is ongoing or, i should say on and off. Thank you.
Brilliant letter, John
I wonder how many people know that Senator Bob “What Grand Jury? Haven’t heard a thing about it” Carr is chummy enough with the Swedish Ambassador to do gardening chores with him, and that said Ambassador was one of the Swedish politicians who signed off on the illegal extraditionary rendition of the two Egyptian asylum seekers?
Nice. More on the swill suppliers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275166/French-firm-supplied-horse-meat-Findus-factory-centre-major-E-coli-scare-20-months-ago.html
This is Comigel’s factory in Luxembourg. Heavily secured like a prison.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horse-meat-lasagne-factory-revealed-1595234I think the sub headline is rather sensational when speaking of a crematorium but I suppose there is waste to dispose of.
Halibaba,
I feel honoured by your attentive reading of every word I write. It has also come to my attention that quite recently you embelished your rather primitive hahababa with “La vita è bella”. It sounds very noble, almost like the German von and zu. But what does it actually mean, hababa? I have heard of dolce vita but yours is more obscure. Can you please translate it for all of us so that we can profit once more from your “intelectual firepower”. But watch out and try to be less moronic next time or I will plant a hezbollah flag in your garden to test the vigilance of MI5.
To mary and others
Somewhat perplexed by the excitement about the horse meat in beefburgers. Rather than being thankful to the Tesco board of directors for a pinch of lean horse meat (I assume that it is actually meat rather than something else) the beefburger munchers feel cheated. It is quite common throughout Europe that a tin labled as “Duck Pâté” contains no more than 15 percent of duck liver. So far, I have not noticed any deceived consumers building bariccades to remedy this sorry state of affairs. Anyone who is too lazy to think and to cook does not deserve anything better.
Karel, I’m delighted that the addition to my handle (La vita è bella) has attracted your attention and your displeasure.
Re its translation, surely I should leave this to the learned Italian linguist which you are? Not.
“Because people don’t go delving into the depths of the BBC web site to find a story about to find a story about some obscure bloke nobody ever heard of bumped off…..doesn’t make them biassed, quite the converse I would think..”
So not delving = unbiassed.
Therefore delving = biassed.
Therefore people on this blog (ie, the usual Eminences) who go delving into the bumping off of obscure Al Quaida and Taliban blokes by coalition forces are biassed.
Which is of course quite obvious to the 99% who live in the real world 🙂
Prezza is obviously narked that Mandelslime got this ridiculous title from Mrs Windsor and that he was passed over.
Lord Mandelson picked for High Steward of Hull post
Lord Mandelson will serve as the High Steward of Hull for 10 years
Lord Mandelson has been offered the newly resurrected ceremonial post of High Steward of Hull.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-21362803
Following was linked on the same page. ‘Hull City Council set to cut 240 posts.’
@ Mary (13h04) : your criticism of someone being appointed High Steward of Hull at the same time as Hull City Council is set to cut 240 posts would only have validity if the post of High Steward were a paid post.
Is it?
Oh Habitual Babbler, the thought just crossed my mind that you were an old-timer senile stenographer, and just then you show up as CE’s secretary!
Btw, La vita è bella = Life is Beautiful
Good = buona
And another thing:
Fred writes: “Because people don’t go delving into the depths of the BBC web site to find a story about some obscure bloke nobody ever heard of bumped off in a country most people don’t know where it is doesn’t make them biassed, quite the converse I would think.”
Babbler: “Because people don’t go delving into the depths of the BBC web site to find a story about to find a story about some obscure bloke nobody ever heard of bumped off…..doesn’t make them biassed, quite the converse I would think..”
Spot the difference.
Can someone please teach the senile Babbler how to cut ‘n paste.
:::
Babbler, did you enjoy your Belgian Woffles for breakfast. LOL
You have really turned from being our school superintendent to the resident Court Jester (and a rather poor one at that, given your obscure sense-of-humour).
Of course Life is Beautiful! Even precious and sacred! The latter too subtle for you.
But never mind Babbler, All the World’s a stage, and the world has a place for you in your second-childhood:
All the World’s a Stage monologue
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Now go along and practice typing that…grammar, syntax and orthography et al
And then into oblivion. I hope that is an elegant enough send off for you, and that my fellow cult-members like Clark, Fred, Glenn, Karel and others will agree, sans objection.
Fare thee well Habakuku.
In spite of my ‘great age’ Villager, I can recite that piece from ‘As you Like It’ by heart, and many others plus some of the work of the C19 English poets! We had a very stern English mistress (as they were called then), Miss Dorothy Rowe, who was a Shakespearean scholar. Woe betide you if you could not answer her questions. She was a MA and like all the other teachers, wore her university gown. It was an all girls’ school. Thank goodness I had three brothers and all their friends to mix with.
Thank you for sharing that vivid glimpse into the past Mary. Sure that Kuku isn’t one of the boys you spurned, given the stalking?! 🙂
At least Miss Rowe didn’t force upon you a book called “A Pattern of Islands” by Arthur Grimble. God it was so boring, we renamed him to Arthur Grumble. Perhaps i should keep a copy by my bedside to induce sleep.
Just looked him up in wiki and it was published by John Murray. Which reminds me of a book i once had titled A Gentleman Publishers Commonplace Book. And one of the gems from that i recall is to the effect “We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Let’s hope we can contribute to making this world a better place. I think this blog plays a role.
Btw have you thought of writing your memoirs or such; you write well.
I found her on the internet! She was a founder of the Bournemouth Little Theatre Club. There is even a photo of her here. She nust have been in her early sixties when she taught me and she still had one of those sit up and beg bicycles mentioned here. She was completely devoted to her vocation and she never married. We all respected her.
Dorothy Rowe, BLTC and
Diana of Dobson’s
by Hugh Norris and Eileen Rawlings
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the
Club, we are staging a second production
of Diana of Dobson’s which was the very
first full-length play we ever did in our first
season which was 1919/20.
A photo taken at the time is
displayed in one of the frames
you pass as you enter the
auditorium. Tbere was just one
performance, on 7th February
1920. It was held in the
Boscombe Hippodrome –
a building which still stands – and it
produced a net profit of twenty-nine
pounds and eight pence which was donated
to a charity called The Comrades of the
Great War.
What was the play about, who chose it and why?
That is easy: it was still a fairly recent (1908)
play about the early days of Women’s Lib
which had had a very successful run in both
London and New York. It was clearly chosen
by Miss Dorothy Rowe
who was then a feisty
young English teacher
at the school now known
as Talbot Heath. She had
been a friend of Dorothy
L Sayers when they were
at Oxford together.
With two friends she
had founded the Club.
Although personally charming, she did not
stand fools gladly and would instantly
correct anyone who later referred to her as
‘founder member’ by saying, “I was a
founder of the Club”.
More details of the history of the Club and
anecdotes of the early days can be found
in the official History, available from the
Club, price £5. But it is worthy of note
that Miss Rowe could easily have moved on
to a better-paid job, but that would have
meant leaving the Club which she loved. A
photograph of Dorothy Rowe, taken later in
life but whilst she could still be seen cycling
around Bournemouth on an old-fashioned,
‘sit up and beg’
bicycle, is in the
Green Room awaiting
a long-overdue
nameplate.
The Boscombe
Hippodrome
p5 http://www.bournemouthlittletheatre.co.uk/newsletters/Newsletter_2009_Nov.pdf
Hope this little anecdote did not send you off to sleep.
Oh and A Gentleman Publishers Commonplace Book was John Murrays commonplace book not just published by the, hence the title. Its a gem, happy to recommend to all.
Happiness!
Actually, just to add to what John Goss’s article above is pointing out. While we are all busy focusing on the latest empty-headed smear pieces in the UK press, the REAL campaign against Assange is going on behind closed doors.
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has just visited South America (a week before the Ecuador elections) to lobby CELAC. Here’s what else is going on with CELAC:
25/1/13: REGION : Sabotaging CELAC – The US and Sweden
http://tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/es/node/12421
The article mentions that this destabilisation push is being organised from Chile but is aimed at the 5-nation ALBA alliance including Ecuador (Chile, of course, being the source of that CIA-backed drug running op to fund anti-Correa activities too). The article also mentions a Swedish diplomat, Cederberg, who ran the embassy in Cuba while Anna Ardin was up to her destabilisation tricks there. And – you’ll love this bit, John – Timbro, a Swedish outfit aligned to US rightwing orgs that is thought to be behind a lot of the smear campaign against Julian Assange in Sweden.
Here’s a webcache of a blogpost Anna Ardin wrote describing her deportation from Cuba (inc about her visit to the embassy there – sounds cosy), which she’s since scrubbed from the net:
https://www.flashback.org/sp25035413
(use Google translate – it doesn’t muck this one up too much)
Meanwhile, Ecuador’s opposition candidate (albeit with bugger-all chance of winning) has stated publicly that, if elected, he will rescind JA’s asylum…
http://archive.is/2UYLb
Not sure whether Carl Bildt is back in Sweden already, but he’s heading to Australia next, on 27 February…
Looks like the Ecuadorian elections are bringing things to a head, just as Ricardo Patino hinted there would be “new developments in the Assange case in February or March”.
And yes Mary, it makes me believe that we were taught by Giants in the good old days. Now look what school education has come to. But then who knows maybe i’m off-the-wall.
And no wide awake, if anything with an appetite whetted to ‘take-in’ a play 😉
I get the joke. 🙂 I’m off to ‘take in’ a concert!
Arbed; Carl Bildt is at the top of the list for Sweden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participant
“The active participation in this move of Sweden, a country increasingly regarded as a slavish follower of the United States, probably seeks to put pressure on those members of the European Union more readily open to taking the summit seriously. However, the latest condemnation in Venezuela of plans to assassinate Vice-President Nicolás Maduro and the President of Venezuela’s National Assembly Diosdado Cabello indicate that even more sinister motives may lie behind the organization of the CADAL event.”
Nope. No right-wingers to see here….move along trolls.
“Meanwhile, Ecuador’s opposition candidate (albeit with bugger-all chance of winning) has stated publicly that, if elected, he will rescind JA’s asylum…”
Cross-posting again, eh Arbed?
(see ‘dirty liar’ thread.)
Here ya go, C.I.A., help yourselves. Anything else we can do for you?
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/u-k-warned-cia-will-access-all-government-data/34488/
Assange was on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
Maher quotes Feinstein and identifies her as liberal. Assange “lovely woman”
What a disappointing, superficial interview. 5 minutes in length. Julian did get a last minute
word in for Manning.
Now Maher is back on Obama and our narcissistic local politics.
Hello Ben,
“Cross-posting again, eh Arbed?
(see ‘dirty liar’ thread.)”
Yes, I do that when I think the links are important enough, just to be sure that peeps here see them. I’ll stop if it’s considered bad etiquette. Thanks for the gentle prod. xx A