Officially proclaimed king yesterday in London, the eldest son of the late queen “ will he be up to it? “, wonders “in One” The Sunday newspaper. The new English sovereign, who must now make himself loved by his subjects, greets the crowd on that of the Parisian Sundayalongside his wife, Camilla, “ longtime Britain’s most hated woman “, recalls this newspaper.
Which publishes an Ipsos poll, dating from last May, on the popularity of members of the British royal family. With a rating of only 14%, Charles is in sixth position in this very popular hit parade, largely dominated by his late mother, who was then three times more popular than him, and even more.
Another poll, that carried out by YouGov, also last May, and quoted by The Sunday newspaperstating that 32% of those polled believed that the Prince of Wales he was still then, “ would make a good king “. However, The JDD“ his accession to the throne could boost his popularity “.
Liz Truss bashing
Of course, the magazine press was already in print when the Queen’s death occurred, but in the United Kingdom, the personality of the new British Prime Minister had caught her interest. Vitriol portrait of Liz Truss in the weekly Point. According to this magazine, his elevation to the supreme position seems less than obvious. Not giving off the slightest charisma, cold-blooded animal never letting go of the slightest emotion, she is a poor speaker. The mechanically fixed smile, the chin always raised in defiance and the metallic voice are not very telegenic. Admittedly endowed with humor and interpersonal skills, she nevertheless finds it difficult to put her hand behind the backs of deputies and journalists alike. “, logs this newspaper.
Point also recalls that before breaking with the Liberal Democrats, then aged 19, this “ rebel at heart by Liz Truss demanded nothing less than the abolition of the monarchy and nuclear power, as well as the legalization of drugs “.
Portrait sketch only in The Express, but from the same barrel. ” Much like her mentor “BoJo”, Liz Truss has often tossed her political decisions, backing them with astonishing ardour. She was an ardent liberal democrat in favor of the abolition of the monarchy, then a fierce conservative royalist; pro-European before becoming a passionate Brexiteer. She claims to belong to Thatcher, but her idea of launching tax cuts in a period of high inflation makes the most orthodox conservatives shudder, such as the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Iron Lady, Norman Lamont, who warned: “This is a terrible mistake” “, remember The Express.
The Nobel joke for Rushdie
Literary controversy, to conclude. Exactly four weeks ago, here, we were talking about the appeal launched in The Sunday newspaper by the philosopher and essayist Bernard-Henri Lévy so that the Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded next October to his friend Salman Rushdie, after the knife attack he had just suffered.
Good or bad idea ? Bad, very bad, warns Pierre Assouline, in The Express. According to this member of the Goncourt Academy, ” if the Nobel Prize for Literature were to crown the death row inmate Rushdie under the pressure of an opinion campaign, it would be one more false step in the turbulent history of the Swedish institution. And a stain on the unparalleled work of this writer who deserves better and otherwise. You had to give it to him before or later (…) But the members of the Nobel committee hate having their behavior dictated to them, wants to believe Pierre Assouline. The pressures to which they are subjected by publishers, literary lobbies and governments are counterproductive; they point them because they see it as an intolerable attempt to manipulate their vote “, he still states in The Express. The author of satanic verses, Nobel Prize in literature ? Answer in a month. Time to read them. Or read them…