Nothing now

 One of the problems I have, with this lengthy mourning of the Queen we've just had, is that, when you lose someone, it feels like the world should stop. It's so so weird and alienating in your grief that it does not. The classic poem of Auden's "Stop all the clocks" is meaningful to so many for that reason, I guess. 

Yet here we are where the UK & UK media pretty much did stop. 

And that just pisses me off to be honest.

Let's not even go into the wastefulness of the money spent on her funeral and all the bollockry surrounding it, nor the fact there's no inheritance tax for Charles. 

I am increasingly in favour of abolition of the monarchy. 

At least you can vote out elected heads of state. 

Notable event

 So, the Queen is dead. 

I was actually a bit sad about it - I think it's the sweet old lady vibe you get looking at the last picture of her, and I think it's more or less normal to relate things like this to your own experiences of bereavement. I empathise with humans losing humans. 

But she lived a life of immense privilege with revolting amounts of wealth and status, while the monarchy is barely questioned and now people make endless mouth-noises to venerate her for making an (arguably) decent job as a figurehead. 

And now it's going to be wall to wall Royal rubbish for a fortnight. (And here I am adding to the roar).

I reckon she hung on to see Boris out the door, although seeing who comes next probably was enough to finish anyone off. 

I was really pissed off by this little nugget in the BBC live stream leading up to the announcement

Oh is THAT why he's disgraced?! What the fuck, you simpering sycophants. 

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

 It's a terrifying "new" cabinet of hideous (morally) old Tory faces to go with the "new" Prime Minister of just the same or worse policies. 

It's grindingly depressing.