Cancelling Events

[lankeela]

When Diana's funeral was held I seem to remember that some events were cancelled - is this likely to happen with the Queen's funeral? I know some have been cancelled tonight and tomorrow (although wouldn't have though the Queen would want racing cancelled!).

[roopower]

It's a shame the proms have been cancelled, no better way to celebrate the Queen's life than in good music. I'm sure the promenaders would rein themselves in on the last night and Benjamin Britten's version of God Save the (Queen) King is beautiful. I know she would have been saddened that the children at last night's event would be upset. Prince Harry might not have felt like giving his speech but it could still have gone ahead.

[naomi24]

Fatticusinch, //I don’t want Johnson’s name anywhere near this sad event//

Why have you mentioned him then?

[nero2024]

racing at Doncaster today is cancelled

[bobbinwales]

Naomi ....because some are obsessed with boris ...maybe a crush....and try to bring him into every thread

[FatticusInch]

Oh dear, the selective and targeted moderation abounds again.

[Gromit]

Fatti’s posts are cancelled for 10 days :-)

[FatticusInch]

You’re right in your appraisal the other day about the site though Gromit, fair play.

[Peter Pedant]

On the day events are cancelled
not an insurable risk apparently - ( against public policy as it involves betting on the Sovereign demiiiiiiiiise)

so the losses are borne by the impresario, lawn tennis oassoc, horse racers themselves - better get back to the ticket offices and open them!

[Peter Pedant]

I have to say I wondered and smiled when Johnson came up
The lesser the better
let him go on a long long holiday - to write a book or something

yeah yeah - working title ( that is what authors call a book in making before it is published as a best seller: " Boris exposes all!")
working title - Here lies Boris Johnson
( stolen and recycled from Vita Sackville west and Violet trefusis ( Violet tres confusee)

Can you inagine - "I had great respect for Her Majesty...." ( o get off and lie about someone else)
"whom I often likened to Agrippina....or Livia or Messalina - or theodora....."

Hack - Nick Eardley for it is he: we all had to google those ones - empresses all they were -
[They werent of course - they were all famous poisoners]

and so the carousel rolls on

[FatticusInch]

Peter Pedant,
You’re not allowed to post facts about Johnson.

It’s verboten. Lol.

[Mozz71]

Sad to see Saturday's Last Night of the Proms has been cancelled.

Although I understand why, I would have loved to have seen it turned into a real celebration of the Queen's life and legacy. Something uniquely British celebrating the most British of icons.

[lankeela]

How I wish we could block people or at least have the option of removing their posts from our own threads.

[naomi24]

Oh has it? That should have gone ahead in tribute. Nothing more British than that!

[naomi24]

Have you suggested it to the powers that be, Lankeela?

[lankeela]

Frequently!

[naomi24]

:o)

[Ken4155]

Nothing should have been cancelled, imho. Everything should have gone ahead as planned 'in celebration' of the Queen's life. The National Anthem could have been played before and after all sporting events with, perhaps, a montage of the Queen's life at half time. The Proms could have been totally dedicated to HM The Queen, as Mozz and Naomi suggest.
With all these events - and more -being cancelled 'out of respect' - it's almost as if we're being forced to mourn her passing.

[Gromit]

Fatti,
I bought the Daily Telegraph for 30 years. It was right wing but a good newspaper. But then the Barclay Brothers bought it and decided to make it into the Daily Mail II, and it became rubbish and I stopped buying it.
I find AB going down that path. 18 years ago it was fairly even politically, and was good. Now it readership has aged is predominantly right wing posters, and strangely moderated. It gets less and less enjoyable, the more rightward it leans.
It nears younger members and a more diverse range of views, but anyone like that would be instantly put off by AB as it now is.

[Gromit]

It *needs* younger members…

[Ken4155]

A definitive list of all cancellations;

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/breakingnews/everything-that-will-be-cancelled-after-queen-elizabeth-s-death-from-sport-to-shops-and-strikes/ar-AA11Cx6P?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=c6ccee7db3e741618f4d758761b9f204