Blogged: Mourning through boredom.
@leonp Yes, I totally agree with you! The amount of media coverage even here has been so overwhelming and utterly formulaic and I have to wonder whether the journalists aren't just burying their sense that this is ridiculous like the rest of us. At least yesterday there were a couple of "actually, colonialism is bad" articles at long last. In the UK, with such an urgent cost of living crisis, it seems even more obscene that the processions are taking up so much news time.
@jayeless I think it’s partly the country having no idea of how to deal with these big state events in an age of social media, so it’s just turned the dial up to 11 so as not to offend any sense of what’s right.
It’s the funeral today and all the UK’s problem will still be around tomorrow – Charles isn’t going to fix them.