Historical Perspective. Illustration by Cathy Wilcox. Read the letters to the editor here:
The Queen must be the most important figure of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is inconceivable how so many Age letter writers cannot acknowledge or respect her tireless work and commitment to serve this troubled world: her diplomacy in keeping world peace; her patronage of so many charities and causes; her environmental work ; her position as head of the Church of England; and so much more.
That we are a society which treats her approach as some kind of amazing achievement – to have lived in that privilege for so long without being a jerk – is a damning insight on how low the bar is for people who are born into privilege. There is no reason the Queen could not have shut down the whole show and given everything back to the people or charity. No. She presided for 70 years, kept it all and was not a jerk.The British certainly know how to put on a perfect show.
The one thing Jones did not ask was how much was the cost of the Australian mourning and how much does the Australian taxpayer have to pay to fly our betters to the funeral in London. Have we no dignity?Why so much extravagance at the Queen’s funeral? Did it need 150 sailors to pull that gun carriage? Fifteen would have been enough.
A silent cry for Rudyard Kipling to rise from the grave and bear witness to the glory of the Great Game? Watch closely, you’ll never see anything like this again.I would rather have King Charles III as our head of state than run the risk of a president who might turn out to be like Donald Trump or Scott Morrison.At the football we are spectators, at the theatre we are the audience, at church we are worshippers, at a dinner party we are guests but at a funeral we are not guests. We are mourners.
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