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The circus surrounding Jade Goody was mind boggling, what is it about the Brits and their need to connect with a celebrity-any celebrity? Are their lives that empty?
Bill Leith’s attitude to the Stern Gang is shared by many Britons. Yet less than ten years later in 1956 Britain and France became Israel’s first overt allies.
what is it about the Brits and their need to connect with a celebrity-any celebrity? Are their lives that empty?
Another brain-dead Brit-bashing fest. Have you read the National Enquirer lately? The celebrity culture started in America, and you don’t get much trashier than Hollywood.
Nobody I know gives a sh*t about Jade Goody. Carol Gould is giving her the “oxygen of publicity” here. In six months’ time she’ll be forgotten.
Bill Leith was indeed a remarkable man. Talking of which, Britain’s oldest man, WW1 veteran Henry Allingham is 112 years 295 days old. He is the sole survivor of the Battle of Jutland. More <a href=””here.
A RAF veteran tells how when his squadron was told to be transformed to Spitfires, pilots had for days an idiotic smile and about the rude blow to their egos when the first Spitfire landed and a diminutive ATA emerged from her looking like it wasn’t harder than a Tiger Moth (a very easy to fly plane for basic training)
I don’t think anyone has the celebrity culture cornered like America does. But I think celebs fill the vacuum not having any real royalty creates. Of course, now that The One has ascended to office, he is starting to fill that void in many of my friends’ lives. I wish they would go back to worshiping Will Smith.
Thanks for telling this story. These people should be remembered, and no, it has nothing to do with celebrity. It is simply part of a great country’s history, and should be remembered.
Speaking as an American, I say there is much to be admired in the history of our oldest ally, and examples great and small support Churchill’s claim, for this was one of Britain’s finest hours.
For those Brits reading this, my apologies for our neophyte President’s tacky handling of the visit of your Prime Minister.
I think that anyone dying so young is a tradegy, so even though Jade Goody was not my type I cannot help but feel sorry for her and her kids, even though as a celeb she was an example of everyuthing that is wrong with Britain, to have kind words from Gordan Brown said it all…
Bill Leith sounds like a true Brit and in that I salute him, my father recently lost a friend who was on the Eagle when it was sunk on the famous convoy to Malta, which kept the island going at a critical time, he died in late 2008 and my father was devestated, the Royal Navy put the boat out at his funeral.
Bill and this man are heros and people we should be paying respects to. So Carol sorry for your loss, but also be glad that like my father your life was enriched by meeting a man like this.
Robert F, Gordan Brown deserved the tacky handling…
my apologies for our neophyte President’s tacky handling of the visit of your Prime Minister.
No need. Gordon Brown is a loathesome creature, dishonest, profligate, cowardly, dictatorial and desperately dull.
BRAVO! Find the producer at the history channel, Americans have our “fly Girls” we need a TV program on those “Spitfire Girls”. Apparently the BBC can’t find its character as its currently chock full of idiots.
Ramp Rat
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As the diminishing number of real heroes of troubled times pass into the night, with our grateful thanks for what they did, they may be sadly forgotten by some but were always unknown to many. It is inevitable therefore that the media casts round for any old flash-and-bash “star” to moon over – or moan over.
Fifteen minutes of fame indeed, but thanks to the likes of Bill Leith we are relatively free to allow our media whores to chase these fifteen-minuters.
Sadly we are facing yet more troubled times, and it might not be so easy to find the heroes who will stand up to the islamists and the squanderers and the eco-wingnuts. But let’s hope they emerge soon.
At least, Bill Leith will not be forgotten at the NATO Tiger meet”, having his peers reconaissance is more rewardful.
http :// wiki.france5.fr/index.php/TIGRES_EN_PLEIN_CIEL (6 videos)
I knew that the Brits had a spine of steel. First was the British MP representative to the EU and now Mr. Leith. Maybe the rest of Great Britain will wake up to the realization of the trouble they and the rest of the world are in.
#12 “I am looking for the French and German governments to rescue us” Daniel Hannan
got to think that not all the Brits are lucid
Jane Goody was no hero, on any level. Name one thing she did because it was the right thing to do when there were no cameras around.
Bill Leith, on the other hand, is the absolute definition of a hero. He was selfless, he worked hard and sacrificed for something larger than himself. He realized it was not all about him.
David H. and Mary Jackson: I don’t feel bad about the One’s treatment of your PM, but the “presents” he gave to Queen Elizabeth (junk from the airport duty-free shop)- now that’s embarrassing, especially since she treated him much more generously than he deserves. It’s like getting a Mercedes from your uncle for Christmas and giving him a gift-wrapped Kit-Kat bar in return, when you both know you could have done a bit better than that. But hey, that’s the Obamamessiah, all class,…,
Hi, Corbin.
No, Ms. Goody wasn’t always an ideal role model, but toward the end of her life, she did use her celebrity to help her fellow countrywomen, and to help look after her children. I think she handled her circumstances to the best of her ability, and there is something to be said for that.
That being said, Mr. Leith lived one hell of a life, and deserves to be recognized for it.
May both Ms. Goody and Mr. Leith rest in peace.