RIP Queen Elizabeth

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…

Nobody judges WE AMERICANS by what one random professor says. Professors have been saying radical stuff forever. Bigtime yawn. Save the pearl clutching.

I would mourn the death of Mother Theresa. Queen E? Not so much.

A 96 year old woman from Britain died. That’s all the “news” it is. There’s a reason America did away with this stupidity in 1776.

The Catholic who discouraged contraception in the poorest of places and encouraged more kids born into poverty? That one?

I’m glad that old hag is gone. The entire royal family is a bunch of free loading piece of $h*tt$. Are they gonna do anything about the one the banged little girls with Epstein?

OK, bigot.

I suspect you know little if anything about the Creighton model or Billings Ovulation Method which St. Teresa and her sisters taught for avoiding or achieving pregnancy. These are Natural Family Planning methods that do not impair women's natural fertility and the Catholic Church encouraged their development. By the way, they are essentially cost-free fertility awareness methods -something significant in impoverished places. I know that I am in a minority, even among Catholics, in believing Catholic doctrine on artificial contraception, teaching which most of the world rejected in the 1960s. Advocates for artificial contraception said it would reduce divorce, out-of-wedlock birth rates, direct abortion, and STDs but, after more than half a century, the data are in, and they indicate the opposite of what the advocates for artificial contraception promised. What followed the huge increase in use of artificial contraceptives was:

* a near doubling of divorce rates

* a huge increase in the out-of-wedlock birth rate

* legalization of direct abortion

* an increase in STDs including one that became a pandemic killing over 40,000,000.

I do not place all of the blame for these results on artificial contraception, but I do think they played a huge role. It seems, to me, anyway, that the Sexual Revolution - which was fueled by the embrace of artificial contraception - was not so much tried and found wanting as it was tried and found catastrophic.

::golf clap::

The Continentals got the better of the Limeys again. They had Charlemagne, you get Charlesthenotsobad

i'm fuming, still not on anywhere on the bbc. We don't pay the licence fee to get propagandised

What a downer of a thread.

+1. Stop this sham. Pay the slaves. Apologize to the commonwealth and get your butts real jobs. They can still enjoy their tea with Paddington Bear, just not another quid of liability on the taxpayer. Rest easy, in peace in eternity, but please cease with this senseless tradition

Any chance London marathon gets cancelled? My colleague planned to run it, booked everything, has his last big long run this weekend and he's worried.

I don't know much about the queen, but I saw Trump did one of his cringy praise posts, and it was actually about her, not just "she told me 'SIR you're tremendous' ", so I'm inclined to not trust her. If Trump likes and praises someone, it usually means they lied on his behalf about his accomplishments in office.

How come every time someone famous dies, there is ALWAYS some who rushes to social media to post that the person dies as if they were the first one who knew?

a huge waste of tax payer's money. will not be missed by me.

No chance. Not with all the funds being raised for charities. Even the Great North Run is still going ahead this weekend.