God Save The Queen! A Speech We’ll Not Forget!

Despite the time difference ( six hours) I stayed up to listen to HM last night…

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…and although I am even blearier than usual – never a morning person- I am glad I did so.

More than any of the politicians I’ve heard so far, she got across the truth of our situation, inspirationally, that this is a moment, unfortunately a long moment, in the British people’s history…

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…all her peoples, across the world, that the young adults of today will find themselves talking about when they are grandpas and grandmas, much as the wartime generation, currently fading away, tend still to talk about their hour of destiny today.

‘Their finest hour?’

That remains to be seen, especially after the startling and dismaying scene on the tv news today, of a mob in an Indian city pursuing two lady doctors who had come to help them.

Demoralisation is a risk to which all peoples may fall victim.

We can be better than that.

If I may paraphrase The Queen’s message…

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…by using just one word in the language of another great nation which I have always held in the highest esteem…

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Hang in there, people.

No surrender!