Guardian.co.uk's "Republican" button

[Flosshilde]

I think the world's got rather more important thing to hold its breath for - a resolution to global warming & climate change, for example?

[ahinton]

Agreed! As the world holds its breath, for news of the birth!

I'm not holding mine; that would have killed me by now. I wish the couple well, of course, but I do not know them and am never likely to meet them, so why I and the rest of the world would be expected to hold breath I have less than no ideea.

[ahinton]

I think the world's got rather more important thing to hold its breath for - a resolution to global warming & climate change, for example?

Indeed, although it would surely be better to get on and do something about that and other vital global issues rather than merely holding breath about them?

[Mary Chambers]

Whenever I encounter screaming babies on a flight (even a short one) I always think that it's a form of selfishness, not to mention child abuse, to subject them to the flight. I find the effects on my ears (from air pressure changes, not the screaming babies) painful; they must find it agony, without understanding why they are experiencing it. Surely parents can postpone their holidays abroad for a few years?

In our case it wasn't a holiday. We were taking the children to see their grandparents for the first time.

In other circumstances, I tend to agree with you.

[Flosshilde]

would twins constitute a double first at Cambridge?

I don't know, but if they were conjoined would they be the first joint monarch since William'nMary?

[VodkaDilc]

Good old Ch4 News can always be relied upon on days like this. 16 minutes on porn filtering before 'going over' to the reporter at Buckingham Palace. I wish the others would follow suit.

[Sir Velo]

Good old Ch4 News can always be relied upon on days like this. 16 minutes on porn filtering before 'going over' to the reporter at Buckingham Palace. I wish the others would follow suit.

:ok:

[Pikaia]

Alas they didn't go directly to an 'Only Fools & Horses' re-run on that basis, but proceeded to reveal the hollowness of 'The News' by talking about 'absolutely no news' for 20 minutes. At least, I imagine they did, I switched off.

Not quite, they did reveal that the announcement of the birth will be on headed paper.

[Flosshilde]

The BBC had the important detail that the announcement would be placed on the same easel that was used to announce Willie's birth.

Doesn't that just make you glow with patriotic fervour?

[MrGongGong]

Whatever one's views, the Guardian's witty and pointed use of technology made me smile - if you click on the purple word "Republican" to the top right under all the titles: Hey Presto! No 'Royal Baby' stuff... http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Could we not have this everywhere ?
a kind of Adblock+ for "royal" nonsense ?

without the usual dicks going on about "yeah but do you want president Blair blah blah blah " grrrrrrrrrr

[mercia]

The BBC had the important detail that the announcement would be placed on the same easel that was used to announce Willie's birth.

Doesn't that just make you glow with patriotic fervour?

and, just as important "the easel is in the rococo revival style"

[amateur51]

The BBC had the important detail that the announcement would be placed on the same easel that was used to announce Willie's birth.

Doesn't that just make you glow with patriotic fervour?

I've just had a handful of pickled chillis with my salad, so I'm glowing quite independently, thankyou :biggrin:

[Nick Armstrong]

and, just as important "the easel is in the rococo revival style"

In the Twittery words of President-in-Waiting Stephen Fry:

@stephenfry
The official easel. We really are a marvellously bonkers country...

[Flosshilde]

I've just had a handful of pickled chillis with my salad, so I'm glowing quite independently, thankyou :biggrin:

I hope the glow subsides in the end :winkeye:

[Sir Velo]

Actually if the Grauniad had any guts they would not have published anything on the Royal Baby anyway. After all, one doesn't read the paper for its royalist sympathies or comprehensive coverage of the Windsors.