First Name Terms
Some people say you've got to have a good fight - a good bust-up of some kind - in order to have a memorable wedding.
So on that score the recent royal wedding seems to have been a bit of a damp squib - unless you count the row over Tony Blair and Gordon Brown being left off the guest list.
Now I'm not sure why anyone would actually want to go to such a royal event - unless you had to of course, as part of your job.
But some folks in the Labour party have taken umbrage at the fact that the two most recent Prime Ministers - i.e. TB and GB - were left out in the cold.
Yet their two immediate predecessors - John Major and Margaret Thatcher - were not.
Now I do have to agree this looks a bit odd, but then so is the royal family - so what do people expect.
Apparently the official explanation from the royal household is that this was not an state event, but a private wedding - so there was no official protocol about whom to invite - this was left to the young couple themselves.
Aye right!
In which case - as at least one eagle-eyed commentator has pointed out - why was the Ambassador of the People's Republic of North Korea on the guest list?
Surely he can't be on first name terms - with William and Kate.
So on that score the recent royal wedding seems to have been a bit of a damp squib - unless you count the row over Tony Blair and Gordon Brown being left off the guest list.
Now I'm not sure why anyone would actually want to go to such a royal event - unless you had to of course, as part of your job.
But some folks in the Labour party have taken umbrage at the fact that the two most recent Prime Ministers - i.e. TB and GB - were left out in the cold.
Yet their two immediate predecessors - John Major and Margaret Thatcher - were not.
Now I do have to agree this looks a bit odd, but then so is the royal family - so what do people expect.
Apparently the official explanation from the royal household is that this was not an state event, but a private wedding - so there was no official protocol about whom to invite - this was left to the young couple themselves.
Aye right!
In which case - as at least one eagle-eyed commentator has pointed out - why was the Ambassador of the People's Republic of North Korea on the guest list?
Surely he can't be on first name terms - with William and Kate.
