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For The Love Of Humanity, Stop Apologising!
We know that you don’t mean it.
Rita Ora (a singer, she did Your Song — that one with the catchy bibbly bobbly backing) has recently apologised for having a thirtieth birthday party. It was apparently a ‘small’ affair, with thirty guests (one for each year, presumably). It was in a restaurant in London during lockdown. Restaurants aren’t allowed to open (except as food takeaways) and we are only allowed to meet one person who isn’t from our household — and that has to be outside. Even if she has a thirty person household, they shouldn’t have been in a restaurant.
Rita’s party was broken up by the police.
She has posted a three-paragraph apology on her Instagram page. She described how embarrassed she felt, how she has put people at risk and that she takes full responsibility for her actions. She strikes a very contrite tone.
But is Rita Ora actually sorry? Or does she feel she has to apologise to maintain her public image?
We hear it all the time. Politicians are forever apologising for tactless, unkind or downright idiotic things that they say. Mike Hedges (a Labour MP) described Brexit as being like “like getting divorced after 43 years. It might look better on the outside with all these young women available to you. But I think the reality may…
