Prince Philip like you've never seen him before!

that's one for the Real England thread right there

I'm in Windsor today along with Lucy and Eva who have come to pay their respects to #PrincePhilip pic.twitter.com/IyjCoJeWVC

— Tom Richell (@tomrichell) April 17, 2021

don't they know that the snooker's on https://t.co/cuJahM8Aoi

— soapy xo (@sophiehnnh) April 17, 2021

RELEASE THE WINDSOR CUT https://t.co/7AXsIqUg6U

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 17, 2021

Near enough, my politics in one picture. pic.twitter.com/BkGYvNPxe3

— Giles Fraser (@giles_fraser) April 18, 2021

took me a couple of mins but that's Hull ffs

not even Hull gammons give a fuck about the monarchy so that'll be straight-up nazi provocation

took me a couple of mins but that's Hull ffs

― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 April 2021 bookmarkflaglink

The one in the Mirror headline? You must book a place and pay a respect sometime

the Giles Fraser one

fortunately nowhere near my beaten track

This cunt took every opportunity he could to be a cunt.

The Times mentioned me in their obituary for Prince Philip. I'm not sure if first-year PhD student counts as "distinguished scientist", but you have to take what you can get. pic.twitter.com/0J3nT20ebM

— Andrzej Harris (@AndrzejHarris) April 18, 2021

classic british media: posh scumbag's confident ideological bigotry, empowered by a lifelong immunity from consequence of any kind, is actually some kind of brave iconoclasm, characterised by a willingness to go for the gag (which is simultaneously funny and risky and harmless and apolitical) despite the opprobrium of the PC police or whatever. exact same shit that makes boris a thing

"off-the-cuff remarks" - fucking virulent and unabashed racism. JFC. I'd honestly rather they didn't even mention it in their bootlicking obits than try to justify it.

(Obviously it would be better if someone actually called it what it was, but that seems unlikely to happen)

you know a journo/editor is feeling really brave if you get the word in scare quotes, attributed to others

It’s disgusting, can you imagine what would have happened to the person who would have responded ‘that’s a horrible, racist thing to say to someone else, especially a stranger.’