{"id":7835,"date":"2022-12-30T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2022-12-30T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:02:22","slug":"media-royalist-propaganda-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7835","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Royalist Propaganda Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6033-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7836\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6033-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6033-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6033-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6033.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I\u2019d like to know who this brave lady is.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Teresa, having dined royally, so to speak, on <em>Versailles<\/em>, is now watching <em>Marie Antoinette<\/em>. As she does so it strikes me that in the last few decades we\u2019ve seen not just a rising tide, but a veritable tsunami of royalist propaganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two shows are about past French Royalty, admittedly. But the almost universal chorus of abjectly sycophantic bootlicking around the recent passing of Liz II really shocked and upset me. This toadying, far more than the passing of one elderly and obscenely overprivileged woman, is what I find deeply saddening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a brief period, post WWII, in which, for a while, there was a semblance of some move towards real progressive and enlightened change in the UK. The creation of the NHS, a growth in the ambitions of the BBC. But all these things seems now to be under the very real threat of Tory vandalism and dissolution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6027.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7837\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6027.jpg 990w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6027-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6027-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A great but rare sight. The \u2018other\u2019 view in public sight.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the orgy of misty-eyed revisionist veneration for royalty that we\u2019re living through now is a stark reminder of the degree to which we are now an increasingly enslaved and backward looking nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wondered if anyone in the UK shared my feelings, and googled the theme using numerous selections of search terms. And what I found most of was the very same obsequious royalist garbage that so disturbs me. It took quite some digging to begin to uncover what one might call such things as republican or anti-royalist stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"965\" height=\"589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5609-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7838\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5609-1.jpg 965w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5609-1-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_5609-1-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alas, if only \u2018t\u2019were so.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medialens.org\/2022\/imposed-insanity-royalty-propaganda-and-the-coming-catastrophe\/\">one of the few<\/a> things I found. And it\u2019s very good. I think I might try and use this and future similar posts to try and gather together such thoughts\/links, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting to note that I can not, so far, find the names of either the \u2018not my king\u2019 lady, nor the \u2018f*ck imperialism\u2019 protestor. The former was allowed to continue her protest, whilst the latter was removed and charged with a \u2018breach of peace\u2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSDiMgattEc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A truly scary sign of our times\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a previous post that touches on this theme I <em>was<\/em> able to find the identity of another protestor. That individual was Paul Powlesland, above, a barrister who said around the time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018One of the many things that makes me proud to be British is our freedom of speech. It\u2019s one of our most precious and sacred rights and it\u2019s far more precious to me than the royal family is.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amen to that! But is the idea of free speech in the UK now no more than an illusion? It\u2019s starting to look that way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6035-1024x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7843\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6035-1024x850.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6035-300x249.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6035-768x637.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_6035.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* The most recent Jubilee was, for the most part, a horrifying display of forelock tugging idiocy. I didn\u2019t encounter any anti-Royal views in the media at the time. Even allusions to other viewpoints were rare. And, of course, the vast propaganda machine supporting royalty steamrolled over any neutered opposition. So Liz wasn\u2019t the last of her ilk. Alas\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa, having dined royally, so to speak, on Versailles, is now watching Marie Antoinette. As she does so it strikes me that in the last few decades we\u2019ve seen not just a rising tide, but a veritable tsunami of royalist propaganda. These two shows are about past French Royalty, admittedly. But the almost universal chorus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7835\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: Royalist Propaganda Overload&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[89,110,130,77,19,68,20,105,169,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-22n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}