🔊 Charles III spoke of love, religion, family, faith and everlasting light. Felipe VI sounded a royal red alert on division, deterioriation and erosion in Spain.
Dec 30, 2022·edited Dec 30, 2022Liked by Matthew Bennett
An interesting analysis but I think Mathew misses an important feature of Chales III's address. The english conservative press were 'respectfully' very critical of Charles's speech - a major columnist in the very popular right wing Daily Mail for example labelled him, oh so politely, as being politically "naive" because of his clear references to tha value and importance of public sector workers. This when workers in Health Care and Medicine (nurses, midwives, ambulance drivers and their paramedic crews) and in the pasenger transport industries (rail travel, airport servicing), and others, are currently engaged in sustained series' of national strikes, and with respect to which the conservatived government refuses to negotiate and which outrage the conservative print media and many of the broadcast media on a daily basis. Charles's speech in context was restrained but highly political and very much more so than any made by Elizabeth II, his late mother.
Thank you, nev. Yeah, now I've worked through my own thoughts on it a bit from the originals, I'll have a look at the other columns and political reactions.
An interesting analysis but I think Mathew misses an important feature of Chales III's address. The english conservative press were 'respectfully' very critical of Charles's speech - a major columnist in the very popular right wing Daily Mail for example labelled him, oh so politely, as being politically "naive" because of his clear references to tha value and importance of public sector workers. This when workers in Health Care and Medicine (nurses, midwives, ambulance drivers and their paramedic crews) and in the pasenger transport industries (rail travel, airport servicing), and others, are currently engaged in sustained series' of national strikes, and with respect to which the conservatived government refuses to negotiate and which outrage the conservative print media and many of the broadcast media on a daily basis. Charles's speech in context was restrained but highly political and very much more so than any made by Elizabeth II, his late mother.
Thank you, nev. Yeah, now I've worked through my own thoughts on it a bit from the originals, I'll have a look at the other columns and political reactions.