Who cares? Still, there’s a good song… 
Her Royal Highness Elizabeth “Liz” Alexandra Mary Mountbatten-Windsor II, Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, of the House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha has celebrated her Platinum Jubilee at age 96.
Queen Liz has a mainly ceremonial/symbolic role.
Actual ruling is done by a bunch of self-serving malicious fools called Parliament. I’m not very hopeful for the future of England; it’s a shadow of the great Empire it once was; subservient to the USA; Brexit is a mess; the right to protest is dying (Police, Crimes and Sentencing Bill 2022); freedom of speech is not guaranteed (e.g. Mark Meechan’s offensive humour, BBC 20/03/2018); and the government is planning to make changes to the Human Rights Act 1998 (Amnesty hits out at Tory plans to replace Human Rights Act, The Guardian 27/03/2022). The same right honourable gentlemen who awarded under-the-table VIP contracts to supply medical equipment to their friends (PPE scandal, e.g. Government’s PPE VIP lane unlawful , court rules, BBC 12/01/2022) and are trying to dodge accountability for partying while the nation suffered under their own totalitarian rules (e.g. see this Partygate timeline, BBC 19/05/2022).
The Queen effectively just rubber-stamps what Parliament proposes. She has done well to keep herself fairly apolitical, publicly unopinionated, and likeable. For some reason, my dad thinks she’s a vampire on his nuttier days. She’s done okay, not been a King John, and her castles and family are a nice piece of history and English culture. But Freddie’s a better queen 😅.
Here’s the English national anthem, God Save the Queen, taken from Queen’s A Night At The Opera and live rendition from Hungarian Rhapsody, as well as the alternative national anthem, Elgar’s Jerusalem, sung by Libera (formerly Angel Voices):
Web Developer Log
This is also a test for a new website audio embedding system I’ve been working hard on for my friend’s podcast website, dragonsnotincluded.github.io (WIP). It works as a Hugo module, and can be found here, on GitHub for use with other static websites built with Hugo.
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