IF you want something doing, ask a busy woman.
So the saying goes and so the triumphant Lionesses proved with Sunday night’s Euros victory (something our over-paid, jittery men have failed to do over the course of 59 painful years).
GettyOur triumphant Lionesses simply rolled up their sleeves and got on with the job at hand[/caption]
EPAMinutes after victory, penalty hero Chloe Kelly declared: ‘This team shows exactly what it’s like to be English. I’m so proud to be English’[/caption]
These female legends simply rolled up their sleeves and got on with the job at hand.
One — Lucy Bronze — played the whole thing with a broken leg and another — goalie Hannah Hampton — with dodgy eyesight. (Doctors told her that her condition, strabismus, would means she’d never make it. She ignored them.)
Our mollycoddled men, by contrast, flounce around as if shot by firing squad after so much as a nudge to the shin pad.
Give the women all the gongs. And Dutch boss Sarina Wiegman an honorary Damehood; after all male counterpart, Sir Gareth Southgate, essentially got knighted for being a nice bloke.
My dog has more silverware than our Gareth — Prettiest Female, Under 6, Barnes Dog Show, July 2025.
Not just because they won the Euros, again, but because, in their post-match interviews, they expressed their sheer unadulterated pride at being English.
Something (Sir) Keir Starmer seems utterly unable to comprehend, or endorse.
As he welcomes economic migrants with a cheery wave and a nice hotel with a gym, and crushes every ounce of entrepreneurial spirit or endeavour, this squad have reminded us all that, yes, we should celebrate our country.
It IS a country worth celebrating.
Minutes after victory, penalty hero Chloe Kelly declared: “This team shows exactly what it’s like to be English. I’m so proud to be English’.
“This team is made of magic and steel. When we were down against Sweden, down against Italy, we f***ing showed grit and determination and we came back. You can’t write the English off.”
As one user on X joked: “Chloe Kelly telling the BBC that she’s ‘so proud to be English’ and Hannah Hampton saying ‘We’ve got English blood in us’ are probably going to be arrested when they touch down back home.”
Incredible role models
And that, you see, is exactly the problem with Starmer’s England.
He doesn’t want us to be English, he wants us to celebrate diversity — at a cost to millions.
Those being elbowed out of delivery jobs by non-English-speaking men being paid cash in hand, contributing precisely nothing to the economy.
The PM has made us feel guilty to celebrate Englishness, as if anyone who does so is a right-wing extremist, a Tommy Robinson-lite.
Like them or loathe them, there’s a reason determined nationalists Reform are turning Britain into a four-party democracy. They have the ear of the nation, a world-weary one.
They, unlike Sir Keir and some of his cabinet ministers, recognise we have a country worth saving.
ReutersThe PM has made us feel guilty to celebrate Englishness, as if anyone who does so is a right-wing extremist, a Tommy Robinson-lite[/caption]
This does not mean abandoning those in need, families genuinely escaping oppression and war, but not making Dover a free-for-all for those who want to abuse the system.
Right now, we have very little to celebrate. Children’s education is being ripped apart by a government punishing hard-working parents who have given up everything to send their kids to private schools.
We are constantly at the whim of striking doctors, angry unions, and people still abusing the benefits’ system.
Say what you like about women’s football, these brave and fearless Lionesses — who drew in a record 2025 TV audience of over 12million — have made immense sacrifices to get where they are today.
They are incredible role models. Fights don’t break out in the stands, the beer-stained tribalism of the men’s game simply doesn’t exist.
Princess Charlotte was Everyfan on Sunday night; her every cheer, shudder and scream mirrored by those watching on in homes, pubs and beer gardens across the country.
As commentator Matthew Syed pointed out, patriotism helped us build a better Britain after the war.
Right now, Starmer needs to harness the national pride sparked by these brilliant Lionesses. To celebrate our sense of self, and boost the national mood.
Currently, he has an open goal. Let’s see if he can net it.
UK HITS A NEW LOWE
FORMER Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe hit the nail on the head in a recent tweet about the impact of this ambition-thwarting Labour government on small businesses.
In a long rant, he detailed the problems anyone with drive faced when they have a “great idea” like opening a cafe.
He wrote: “Registering the damn thing is complicated enough. You’re treated like a criminal, it takes weeks.”
Then if it goes well and turnover hits £90k, you have to charge VAT so “everything gets 20 per cent more expensive for your customers”.
“Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on? More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother?
“We desperately need to back British enterprise.”
As the daughter of two parents who worked long hours to run a small catering business, and were repeatedly hit by petty bureaucracy, I concur with every word.
Labour just make it impossible.
TABBY’S SHABBY ENDING
SuppliedMy friend’s cat was put down after a neighbour took him to the vet over ‘breathing difficulties’[/caption]
LAST week my friend’s elderly cat, Jacob, wandered off.
A neighbour three doors away found Jacob, who was showing some breathing difficulties, and promptly took him to the vet. Who just as promptly put him down.
My friend wasn’t contacted at any stage, and after three days of sheer panic, worry and door-knocking, eventually got hold of said neighbour who casually confirmed they’d taken it upon themselves to put the beloved tabby down.
When my pal, a lawyer, furiously phoned the vet to confirm what had happened, she was told they couldn’t give out such classified information as it was a breach of the (dead) moggy’s privacy.
They went on to cite “patient confidentiality”, and data protection.
There are no words.
RIP, Jacob – a cat, quite literally, taken too soon.
SPOOF A PR GEM
A LESSON in crisis comms from the PR team behind Astronomer, the tech firm at the centre of the viral Coldplay scandal.
The company, quite possibly now the world’s most famous data workflow automation brand, hired Chris Martin’s ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to front a tongue-in-cheek campaign promoting the US-based organisation.
Following the infamous cam-gate moment – which captured married CEO Andy Byron in a clinch with his equally married head of HR Kristin Cabot – Gwynnie made light of the situation in a p***-taking social media vid.
Give those guys a rise.
HOW BONKING BONNIE HAS MADE HER BED
Olivia WestBonnie’s greatest claim to fame is sleeping with 1,057 men in 12 hours (the turnover rate doesn’t bear thinking about)[/caption]
UNDERSTATEMENT of the week c/o Bonnie Blue, who was interviewed by my colleague Georgette Culley in The Sun yesterday.
For the uninitiated – and I’m sorry for this – the porn star’s greatest claim to fame is sleeping with 1,057 men in 12 hours (the turnover rate doesn’t bear thinking about).
In another interview, with The Times, Bonnie, muses: “It’s going to be difficult when I’m ready to date again, because of what I do.”
You don’t say.
FAREWELL to a rock legend, Ozzy Osbourne. I met him a few times and he was genuinely absolutely lovely – and utterly devoted to wife, Sharon. (And the family’s menagerie of pets).
On one occasion, entirely forgetting he was sober, I poured the star – and his sober companion, a man paid to keep Ozzy on the straight and narrow – two large vats of white wine each at an Elton John bash in LA.
Many a recovering alcoholic wouldn’t have taken to it kindly.
Gentle soul Ozzy laughed it off, and simply made me down the three glasses of wine on the spot.
What a man, what a legacy.
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