Monday 24 December 2012

The Queen's speech

On the day: 
23/12/2012 

On the way: 
The Queen is back, the Kipper Williams cartoon version that is - Jean spotted her this time, patrolling the patch past the bus stop. 
Up the pavement she goes, disguised in civvies, seeing how the other 96 per cent live, no doubt, wrapped in a voluminous brown faux fur coat reaching to her ankles, her feet in two-tone trainers, a canary yellow headscarf offering pale shelter from the rain. Up the pavement and down again.
And if she mumbles to herself as she goes - and I'm not saying she does because she's the Queen and you've got to show a little respect, even when she's in mufti - maybe that's because she's busy rehearsing her speech for Tuesday.
Or maybe she's saying, "Where are one's bothersome corgis? That's the last time one lets Phillip go walking them on his own. Init."

On the pod: 
Only good for conversation - Rodriguez 

On the front page: Mitchell: Police destroyed me (The Times)  

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