The female revellers laughed and sang it on the Royal Caribbean party ship with just as much gusto… why, why, why Delilah?
And why, why, why, you might ask have the Welsh Rugby Union cancelled the party and sports anthem?
Because there’s a line in it about jealous Palestinian Samson stabbing his girlfriend because she had taken up with a lover.

Well, by that logic, we should probably ban Othello because he smothered Desdemona… and she hadn’t even kissed Cassio.
Or Romeo & Juliet because he duped her into a joint suicide.
And any number of songs that tell of fictional love stories gone bad.
Anthem as well



Hell, while we’re at what about rugby/national anthems?
And the ‘racist’ verse in God Save The Queen about sending Marshall Wade, rebellious Scots to slay.
Yeah, they’ll keep that but try to ban the England rugby favourite Swing Low Sweet Chariot which is in celebration of Harriet Tubman.
No, the whole thing has gone bonkers and I fear that we have lost the battle and maybe even the war.
Woke me up



I confess I didn’t even know about the concept of woke when I was accused of not being ‘woke enough’.
By an Irish wedding magazine editor who insisted on correcting me in South Africa every time I said ‘he’ and ‘she’ to ‘they’.
And how does this feed into our common thread of travel?
Well, if we’re not careful we’ll homogenise the world and become po faced about life, death, sex, violence… you know the thing.
It’s what I call the ‘literal brigade’, those killjoys who take everything literally and also misuse literally.
As in ‘I literally died’.
Literally genius



Well, to carry on a theme the apparatchiks in the corridors of power are literally wasting their time.
If they think they can get the Welsh rugby fans to desist from singing this belter from one of their favourite sons Tom Jones…
Well, I experienced first hand in my year in Cardiff how passionate and thrawn (obstinate) the Welsh are.
So whether it’s Tom’s Wales, a cruise ship in the English Channel or Las Vegas where he had women throwing their knickers at him…
Then don’t let any woke warrior tell you you can’t sing Why, why, why Delilah?