@FTusa284 Are you mellowing in old age? This Grumpy Old Man thinks we need to wait until Monday before any backs are patted.
@bealejonathan Yes, but the big difference is that 2010 was effectively driven by sharp budgetary constraints and controversy over the carriers whereas this time it’s been conducted against a backdrop of significant increases for Defence, with the carriers settled - so fewer hiding places!
@RichardHRBenyon @piersmorgan I think @JeremyClarkson might be able to tell you
@HelenGoodmanBA @ShippersUnbound That’s probably true but as things stand the Royal Family couldn’t protect anyone from tabloid stories - they’ve been at it for decades. (The Daily Mail invented the Curse of Tutankhamen in 1923 and Baldwin made his famous “prerogative of the harlot” attack on the media in 1931.)
@HelenGoodmanBA @ShippersUnbound How do you protect anyone from the British media, Helen? I wish there was a way. And how much evidence is there of real prejudice beyond one comment made to Harry in a context we do not know and before they were married? All I see is a family welcoming a stranger.
Good old @hugorifkind gets it brilliantly right again - this whole wretched Meghan/Harry affair is really about the damaging consequences of society’s obsession with celebrity far more than it is about the House of Windsor https://t.co/WsyowXeYIJ
@cathynewman @Oprah How does asking no difficult questions of your subjects make for a great interview? The complete lack of challenge or even research was breathtaking.
@benatipsosmori @poeticcinema23 This seems an astonishingly vague question -“two or three if they wanted to” - which means you need to treat the results with caution @PickardJE
@BorisJohnson Literally? Are you sure?
@Sonjamclaughlan I’m really sorry for @Sonjamclaughlan and I don’t know exactly what was said or how vile it was, but this really isn’t an @BBCNews story; sadly this sort of thing happens to everyone in the public eye all the time and the best advice is to use the mute or block buttons.