Neil Diamond announce a new ownership

Two days before his 77th birthday, Neil Diamond has announced his retirement from touring. Shows scheduled for Australia and New Zealand in March have been cancelled. Diamond said in a statement that he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. The singer-songwriter intends to continue making music.

“I plan to remain active in writing, recording and other projects for a long time to come,” Diamond said. “My thanks go out to my loyal and devoted audiences around the world. You will always have my appreciation for your support and encouragement. This ride has been ‘so good, so good, so good’ thanks to you.”

Diamond’s last album was Acoustic Christmas in 2016. He is scheduled to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards on Sunday. Read Diamond’s full statement below:

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry might have walked away from their Royal duties – but they have been immortalised in new artworks by an artist who also painted Queen Elizabeth II.

They depict the pair, who quit the UK for California four years ago this summer, as Royals from the past, complete with their own historic titles.

Meghan’s portrait is called Returning White Queen and sees her as Dame Elizabeth Grey, the politically influential wife of King Edward IV. Meanwhile Harry, 39, is Charles Edward Stuart – aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender.

However, not everyone was impressed, with one referring to the King’s recent ‘red’ painting, saying: “Worse than Charles portrait and that’s saying something.” Another reckoned they looked like they’d been painted by a child.

Others said they burst out laughing on seeing the paintings, with one chuckling: “Those pics have made my day,on the floor laughing with the tears rolling down my back.”

Artist Dan Llywelyn Hall explained the decisions behind the portraits, saying: “In Harry’s case, I have entered the story before he met Meghan the young party-goer with his future very much in the balance, a bit like the Bonnie Prince I have likened him to.

“I thought putting Meghan in the role of the White Queen, who was a Queen Consort and possibly the most influential ‘outsider’ in Royal history, might have a fine irony to it and not necessarily beyond the realms of reality.”

The paintings bring the number of portraits artist Dan, who painted the Queen at a sitting at Windsor Castle when he was just 32, to ten.

Three cheers for Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy, Tracey Hooper and Joanne Bradbury. Their names are unknown as yet, but these brave nurses could easily become as significant in the annals of feminist history as the Ford Dagenham women and the Suffragettes. Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, the five nurses who work at Darlington Memorial Hospital, which comes under the control of County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, have filed a legal action against the Trust claiming sexual harassment and indirect discrimination after having to share a changing room with a male colleague who identifies as a woman.

The male operating department practitioner, who, it is said, openly admits he does not take female hormones and is trying to get his girlfriend pregnant, nevertheless insists that he is called “Rose”. The nurses claim that Rose has walked around the female dressing area wearing only tight boxer underpants while allegedly staring and initiating conversations while female nurses are getting changed.

To the average person, Rose’s alleged behaviour sounds creepy.

One nurse, who experienced sexual abuse as a child, spoke of her horror when she was approached in the changing room, which she assumed was a women-only space, by Rose in a scrub top and boxer shorts with holes in. International nurses, from cultures that forbid them being unclothed around men other than their husbands, have suffered panic attacks before trying to fulfil their duties in the day surgery.

Some 26 nurses wrote to County Durham and Darlington Trust to raise their concerns about this deeply unsettling and potentially unsafe situation. Guess what? It turns out it was all the womens’ fault! Of course it was.

Human Resources managers replied saying that they support “Rose” and – listen to this, dear reader – the nurses need to “get educated”, “broaden your mindset” and “compromise” in order to be more “inclusive”. What kind of compromise you are supposed to reach around a sexually-active biological bloke who is around you when you get your kit off in your workplace may only be clear to those in the advanced stages of gender derangement.

The Trust’s policies apparently permit any member of staff to “identify” as the opposite gender and to access single-sex changing rooms, toilets or showers. Simply because “Rose” says he’s a woman, he can use the female changing rooms regardless of the feelings of, you know, actual women. (Presumably, he can also give a bed bath to a patient who has requested a female nurse to carry out that intimate task?) Adding insult to injury, the man calling himself Rose has reportedly offered to educate the distressed nurses on the matter. I believe there is a technical term for such a creature: arrogant p—-.

Nurses reported that they felt “threatened” and “intimidated” during HR meetings at the hospital, fearing for their jobs if they spoke out. Lacking JK Rowling’s protective cushion of wealth, eight (three remaining anonymous) summoned up the courage anyway.

“We want women to be aware that there are transgender policies, particularly in the NHS, that are putting us at risk,” said Bethany Hutchison, a spokesperson for the group. “This should not be something women even need to think about. However, the extreme transgender ideology that is putting us at risk is so ingrained and has gone so far that we and other women have no choice but to speak out. Other nurses are terrified of sticking their heads above the parapet. We are speaking out for us and for those who are too afraid to. This cannot be right, and we want a change in policy, not only at our hospital but across the NHS and wider society. I am a Christian, but these policies are and will impact every woman from every background.” Well said, Bethany.

How, you may well ask, has the apparently harmless requirement to be “inclusive” ended up causing so much dread and fear to those nurses? Well, what you have to understand is the NHS is effectively a socialist state operating within our country, albeit one given £180 billion of taxpayers’ money a year to employ diversity managers, purchase Pride lanyards and occasionally carry out an operation if they absolutely have to.

The instinct of activists, who run the health system (very badly, but that’s another story), is to identify persecuted minority groups that need to be protected at the expense of bigger “privileged” groups, even to the point of irrationality. Just under 100,000 people in England and Wales identify as a trans man or trans woman, according to the most recent census, compared to a population of around 30 million women and girls. Labour has apparently concluded that it’s better for the party’s prospects to pander to aggressive members of the trans superminority than to consider the safety and wellbeing of millions of women and children.

This is “progressive” groupthink – the dog whistle of the Left. It goes something like this:

Labour: We’re the party of equality that respects women’s spaces, sport, single-sex hospital wards, domestic violence shelters, changing rooms, workplace and school safeguarding.

Everyone else: Great, go on then, what’s a woman?

Labour: Er, it’s complicated, it depends on the context. What matters is trans rights and people feeling safe.

Everyone else: What about the rights of women and girls?

Labour: Well, yeah, obviously. Most women have vaginas, but some have penises because they were born men and are now women – not too sure of the details tbh! – but, don’t worry, we’ll make it much easier for men to become women so everyone’s happy and safe.

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