Expensive royals

The BBC cannot stop lying.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-57559653

This article about the cost of the royal family is good but it grossly underestimates the cost of the Coronation which is closer to 250 million when the security operation (which involved rounding up non-violent Republic protestors - a brutal piece of policing for which even the Met apologised) is included.

There is no figure for the benefits of the royals to Tourism but this is in any case a pathetic argument. Many countries which do not have monarchies have far better tourism than the UK so the royals are arguably a cost to the tourist industry.

If people want to drool over Buckingham Palace then they can still do so when Charles and his cronies are consigned to the trash can of history.

 

 

Flash Fiction

My friend Ecosia (a search engine without the baggage of Google) is of the opinion that I have written a lot of flash fiction. Here are a few examples:

 

https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories/humility-by-derek-mcmillan

https://www.reflexfiction.com/albert-flash-fiction-by-derek-mcmillan/

https://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/2019/02/worthing-flash.html

https://drablr.com/derekmcmillan

https://www.sledgehammerlit.com/post/dave-s-contraption-by-derek-mcmillan

 

 

 

 

 

Murder in the Quiz Club

I run a quiz club. The characters in "Murder in the Quiz Club" are entirely fictitious. There are such things as libel laws.

For security reasons I cannot reveal the name of the poison which was used in this murder. That and the fact that I can't actually remember it.