It is quite hard to get into Oxford, it is quite hard to get a good degree there, it is quite hard to get into Britain from most of the world, and it is quite hard to get into Canada.
Or, at any rate, it is for most people.
It has now been established that Boris Johnson does not know Classical Attic from Klingon, yet he was admitted to read Classics at Oxford, where he was awarded a Second Class degree. This ought to be an enormous scandal. But then, look at what else is not.
As a non-EEA national, Meghan Markle would have required a marriage visa, which would in turn have required her to prove that the new family unit that she had intended to co-found would be able to be supported “without recourse to public funds”. That was the law. It still is.
Any such claim on her part would have been laughed out. So instead, she was wafted into British citizenship with less trouble than it would have taken to have signed off on some new ink for the printer.
And now, she and her husband blithely announce that they are moving to Canada, to the horror of the biggest-selling and most influential newspaper in that country, and it does seem to be a matter of, “Why, of course, Your Royal Highnesses.”
You cannot be Royal and not Royal? You cannot be Royal only when it suits you? Oh, yes, you can. Justin Trudeau knows the rules. But then, he, too, is royalty.
His British counterpart is not far off it, either. It has now been established that he does not know Classical Attic from Klingon, yet he was admitted to read Classics at Oxford, where he was awarded a Second Class degree. This ought to be an enormous scandal. But then, look at what else is not.
I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
And now, she and her husband blithely announce that they are moving to Canada, to the horror of the biggest-selling and most influential newspaper in that country, and it does seem to be a matter of, “Why, of course, Your Royal Highnesses.”
You cannot be Royal and not Royal? You cannot be Royal only when it suits you? Oh, yes, you can. Justin Trudeau knows the rules. But then, he, too, is royalty.
His British counterpart is not far off it, either. It has now been established that he does not know Classical Attic from Klingon, yet he was admitted to read Classics at Oxford, where he was awarded a Second Class degree. This ought to be an enormous scandal. But then, look at what else is not.
I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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