Daily Star Has Silly Headline, Game Famous for Not Working Doesn't Work, Bears Shit in Woods

So as it happens, a game legendary for not working turned out not to work, hence my little hiatus combined with a few other things, but the first part of my written commentary of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth should be up by tomorrow.

In the meantime, I’m going to take advantage of this space and get on my soapbox to go on a little rant about how the Royal wedding is being reported in our press. Before I start, I’m going to declare my bias: I’m pretty big on the whole Republicanism thing. Monarchy does not sit well with me in the modern day and it’s not just a left-wing thing, to me a monarchy is inherently opposed to the values of equality of opportunity and democracy.

That said, I don’t have much ill-feeling towards the Royal family itself. Ultimately; the Royal Wedding is just two slightly boring twenty-somethings getting married. What frustrated me about the Royal Wedding was the way a tabloid reported it. The Daily Star today proclaimed that the Royal Wedding is something that should make you “PROUD TO BE BRITISH.”

Why should this make me PROUD TO BE BRITISH? As opposed to monarchy as I am as a principle, I’d still consider myself patriotic; I’m PROUD TO BE BRITISH when I think what we’ve accomplished as a nation and a people but I don’t see how what is effectively a celebrity wedding is any kind grand accomplishment that should make me feel any more patriotic.

This, however, SHOULD make you proud to be British.

I’d like to re-iterate I don’t have a problem with the wedding, I’m not nearly mean enough to be negative towards two strangers getting married and I think it was a pretty clever marketing move to get Britain into the minds of the world before the Olympics while also being a convenient political smokescreen during a time of cuts and austerity. The more I think about the way this wedding was timed, the more begrudgingly respectful of the government’s political manoeuvring; a fairy story union between the middle classes and the establishment.

I also realize that being critical of the Daily Star for having inane, misleading or just plain stupid headlines is like being critical of bees for stinging people or being critical of Southerners for being effeminate. They can’t help it; it’s just what they do.

The Star apparently thinks it's 1915.

 But really, I can’t be the only person who thinks that suggesting the Royal Wedding being an event that should make you PROUD TO BE BRITISH is silly.