I've been listening to the BBC radio and am watching BBC television going in depth into the life of Prince Philip. They may be pulling back on some things, but they are not pulling back on various gaffes of the man.

I appreciate several things here:

The mods being up front with their personal prejudices and problems in doing their jobs here.

At this point I'm appreciating the man that Prince Philip was. He seems to have been 'honestly' outspoken in that whether or not one liked what he said, one could generally believe it. He was definitely in harm's way in World War 2. He was in the Royal Navy and participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan and was mentioned in dispatches. He lived a very long time after that and I'm sure he did many things out of a sense of duty, or as one might prosaically say, doing his job.

He satisfies the definition of 'hero' and more importantly, a man, or as one would say in my family, a mensch.

I find it absolutely fascinating that our UK members have widely disparate views and are unafraid to express them. The UK is imperfect and flagrant and utterly human. We see hundreds of years of people 'not getting on very well together' yet carrying on.