Sometimes turning on ye ole transistor radio in the wee hours (of the morning) can bring unexpected, unanticipated pay-offs...
Such it indeed proved overnight as I tuned in, at the ungodly hour of 12.57 a.m.to boot (on our local Hills AM network), to BBC World News/World Service with acclaimed Middle-East-based international correspondent and news presenter/associate editor Lyse Doucet...
Her/the subject under - rather heated, but quite understandable - contention? The recent (proposed) re-naming of ships - or, more precisely, the 're-gendering' of Her Majesty's Oceangoing fleet (and boats and ships in general, evidently)...
All I wish to say here is to add my hearty "Amen!" - 'with knobs on ' - to ex-British Navy head, 'Lord Admiral' Alan West...
Though I perhaps did not get (what was quoted from) West's speech down word-for-word from my late night slapdash, shorthand note summary, let me simply 'requote' the 'good lord' as best I can...
Yes, "the [Western] world's [indeed] gone mad" - "it's a very dangerous road we're going down" - "it's political correctness gone mad"...yes, all of these (and much, much more)...
"It's stark raving bonkers", in fact, to use the picturesque, colourful language...doubtless gained over years (?and even decades?) of sea-faring living and earthy lingo...
What we're seeing more and more is indeed "small pressure groups" increasingly "calling the shots" on all manner of matters (see 'identity politics' writ small, in this particular instance)...
As the 'good lord' pointed out, "sometimes what is [deemed antiquated, and ever pejoratively] 'old-fashioned' is in fact perfectly fine"...
Yes, leave her be...well enough alone - already!
Such it indeed proved overnight as I tuned in, at the ungodly hour of 12.57 a.m.to boot (on our local Hills AM network), to BBC World News/World Service with acclaimed Middle-East-based international correspondent and news presenter/associate editor Lyse Doucet...
Her/the subject under - rather heated, but quite understandable - contention? The recent (proposed) re-naming of ships - or, more precisely, the 're-gendering' of Her Majesty's Oceangoing fleet (and boats and ships in general, evidently)...
All I wish to say here is to add my hearty "Amen!" - 'with knobs on ' - to ex-British Navy head, 'Lord Admiral' Alan West...
Though I perhaps did not get (what was quoted from) West's speech down word-for-word from my late night slapdash, shorthand note summary, let me simply 'requote' the 'good lord' as best I can...
Yes, "the [Western] world's [indeed] gone mad" - "it's a very dangerous road we're going down" - "it's political correctness gone mad"...yes, all of these (and much, much more)...
"It's stark raving bonkers", in fact, to use the picturesque, colourful language...doubtless gained over years (?and even decades?) of sea-faring living and earthy lingo...
What we're seeing more and more is indeed "small pressure groups" increasingly "calling the shots" on all manner of matters (see 'identity politics' writ small, in this particular instance)...
As the 'good lord' pointed out, "sometimes what is [deemed antiquated, and ever pejoratively] 'old-fashioned' is in fact perfectly fine"...
Yes, leave her be...well enough alone - already!
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