Judging by the thousands who flock to see them, when they visit places like Cambridge, I’d say that there are a lot who care, especially as, at some time, he/she will be the sovereign of this country. Obviously you care, too, otherwise why bother to comment?

Charlie

Jeremy Vine? Better by far to send his brother Tim. He might not know much about Spits but we’d have a few laughs.

Very few; a product of the Gordon Brown School of Merriment, that one.

Maybe he’s the only BBC employee who can tell a Spitfire from a Hurricane.

What makes me laugh is the very idea of women bishops being voted down by the Church of England. Perhaps they need reminding who is the head of the Church

Yes The Sovereign holds the title ‘Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England’. Last time I looked it was a woman and has been since 1952

So if women are not deemed fit to be bishops does that make our Sovereign not fit for the top job?

Oh, please, give over with the emotive nonsense; the vote fell short by six, so it was the Church’s arcane voting rules which defeated the motion. In (almost) every other society, a simple 50+% = a majority, but they need over 60%, which leaves me (and many others) baffled.

[QUOTE=Al;1953654]The Romans kept amazingly detailed records about who they ruled, jailed, and executed, but there is absolutely no mention of a Jesus in any historic record. QUOTE]
Ever considered that, since the body went missing, the powers-that-be decided to expunge all of the records, rather than face awkward, possibly life-threatening, questions?

, I am also sure that Labour would not have made those on low incomes their prime target

We are talking about the party which did away with the 10% income tax band, thereby hitting the lower-paid proportionately harder, aren’t we?

Is there an argument for compulsory voting as in Australia and other countries?

If the ballot paper includes a “None of the above” option.

Now this I can empathise with, printed matter should be correct. Can I ask, how are you with menus?

Your transparent attempt to be contemptuous, and oh-so-clever, falls rather flat, when I point out that, being a pensioner, eating out is a luxury that I cannot afford, so menus hold no interest, therefore now, as well as being my intellectual superior, you obviously have more money than me, so you can feel doubly superior. And, no, before you accuse me of having a chip on my shoulder, forget it, since I gave up on jealousy years ago.

Of course I don’t miss his point, I just feel that his arrogance (for want of a better word) is as misplaced as it is incorrect. Personally I swear pretty much all the time yet have an eloquence and vocabulary to draw on that puts most others to shame

For arrogance (and I can think of no better word,) I suggest you do no more than look in a mirror. So you swear pretty much all the time; well how frightfully cosmopolitan and working class of you, but there are those amongst us who’ve learned to have the courtesy not to do that in front of women and children, which is why we need a broad vocabulary, and can express ourselves without being offensive.