New Issues -
🇨🇦 Canada Post -
31 January 2025 - Black History Month, Commemoration of Marie Joseph Angélique - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6. Designed by Alexis Eke and Nathalie Cusson of Scooter Design and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- **.
🇶🇦 Qatar Post -
29 January 2025 - Katara Cultural Village, Arabian horses in Qatari culture - 2 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.
🇱🇹 While wokeness is breaking out all over in the Canada Post 2025 new issue programme, the Lithuanian purveyor of philately-related products - the infamous Stamperija - has released a pair of sheetlets depicting possibly the most unwoke British comedian of modern times - too unwoke, one suspects, to be commemorated on a Royal Mail stamp in the foreseeable future - Benny Hill, on the centenary of his birth. Fashions and culture change quickly in the West in these present times and while Hill was considered a comedy genius in the 1980s, his heyday, his type of humour is now considered to be far beyond the pale and much of it offensive at the very best. It may be argued, I suppose, that if a comedian is not offending someone or the other, then he/she is not doing their job especially in this present era when so many people are actively in search of something to be offended by. Perhaps, after another four years of Trump, the pendulum may swing in the other direction. For what it’s worth, Stamperija has printed the name of Sierra Leone on these products -
🇸🇱 Products inscribed ‘Sierra Leone’ -
12 February 2024 - Birth centenary of the late Benny Hill, British television comedian - 2 sheetlets, each containing 9 different stamps. These products were released as part of an issue of 44 sheetlets and/or miniature sheets publicised on 30 January 2025. Rating:- 0.
