How is this right?
Dominic Cummings £50,000 of unpaid council tax 'written off'.
Lord Bamford millions owed in taxes.
Michelle Mone millions owed to taxpayers.
Paula Vennells millions received in bonuses.
This is wrong on so many levels.
An absolute disgrace.
When United States Congressman Thomas Massie is openly naming Andrew Mountbatten Windsor for sex crimes on the House floor, the silence from the Palace is deafening.
We are forced to fund, shield, and glorify an institution that harbours allegations the rest of the world refuses to ignore.
Is the monarchy truly representing the best of us, or has it become our ultimate national embarrassment? #AbolishTheMonarchy
The billionaire monarch will not be paying for the clean-up. But once the toxic waste is gone, the land, and its value, remains tied to the Duchy. Heads the Crown wins, tails the taxpayer loses.
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This is Judge David Farrell, QC. In April of 2019, he handed Martyna Ogonowska a life sentence, with a minimum term of 17 years, for stabbing and killing a man who was sexually assaulting her.
In 2012, on the other hand, Judge Farrell handed down sentences of just 40 months to two men who raped an 11 year old schoolgirl because she was “willing,” and “looked fourteen.”
Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?
It takes an enormous amount of guts to take on opponents like News Group Newspapers, and great tenacity to win. And it’s just wonderful that Harry fought for - and gained - an apology to his mother. She would be incredibly touched at that, & rightly proud. https://t.co/ISqmvliRqy
MONDAY HOT TAKE
Remember Diana? Because Apparently Some People Don’t.
There is something deeply uncomfortable about watching history flirt with repeating itself.
We remember Diana, Princess of Wales, as the woman in photographs. The dresses. The smile. The humanitarian work. The mother trying to give two princes something resembling a normal childhood.
But do people remember what happened before everybody suddenly decided they loved her?
Diana was chased.
For photographs.
For headlines.
For exclusives.
For clicks before we even called them clicks.
Her private life became public property. Her relationships became commodities. Her pain became content.
And in the final months of her life, Diana was romantically involved with Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian man, while photographers followed their movements.
Then came Paris.
August 31, 1997.
Diana died after the Mercedes carrying her and Dodi crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel while being pursued by paparazzi. The 2008 inquest found Diana and Dodi were unlawfully killed through the grossly negligent driving of Henri Paul and the pursuing paparazzi.
So nearly three decades later, I have one question:
What the fuck did anybody actually learn?
Because Diana’s youngest son married Meghan Sussex, a biracial American woman, and sections of the British press once again turned a royal wife, her marriage and eventually her family into an endless source of headlines, speculation and profit.
Different generation.
Different technology.
Different circumstances.
But some of the instincts feel disturbingly familiar.
Follow them.
Photograph them.
Speculate about them.
Turn their relationships into entertainment.
Turn family disagreements into daily programming.
Turn security into debate.
And when Harry complains about it, portray him as the problem.
That makes Prince Harry’s decision to leave Britain with his wife and children look very different through the history of his mother.
Criticize Harry for whatever you want.
But expecting the little boy who walked behind Diana’s coffin to grow into a man willing to gamble his own wife and children against a media culture he believes helped destroy his mother was always fucking ridiculous.
He left.
And maybe Harry understood something everybody else refused to:
Sometimes protecting your family means getting them the hell out.
Now comes the harder question.
Do Prince Harry and Meghan Sussex have the mental fortitude to step back into the lion’s den they escaped?
Because every photograph will be dissected. Every facial expression analyzed. Every interaction interpreted. Every silence transformed into a feud by somebody who needs tomorrow’s headline.
Maya Angelou once said:
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues.”
They’re going to need plenty of it.
But so is someone else.
King Charles III.
Shakespeare wrote:
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
Well, Your Majesty, this is part of wearing it.
Your former wife spent years being pursued, scrutinized and turned into a commodity by sections of the press.
Now your youngest son has spent years fighting sections of that industry while trying to protect his wife and children.
The King cannot control newspapers. He cannot order journalists to stop writing stories he dislikes, nor should he.
But he can decide what kind of father and monarch he intends to be while it happens.
So here is my Monday Hot Take for King Charles:
When history writes your reign, how do you want to be remembered?
As the King who watched history begin rhyming and said nothing?
Or as the father who finally decided protecting his family mattered more than maintaining a comfortable relationship with a press machine that will eventually find another target anyway?
Crowns eventually pass.
Headlines eventually yellow.
Editors eventually retire.
Kings eventually become portraits hanging on walls.
But history keeps the receipts.
And this time, nobody gets to say they weren’t warned.
“They were relieved. Not devastated. Relieved.”
James Whitaker: when Diana died there was “a great sigh of relief around the entire royal family” because she was “taking on the royal family” and her own court was growing too powerful.
The institution doesn’t just lose people who connect with the public. It loses control.
Harry and Meghan walked a version of the same road. That’s why the hostility feels so familiar.
Rest in peace, Diana.
PRITI BLOODY AWEFUL PATEL who should have been sacked twice by Conservative Leaders has at last been dethroned
She paid her husband £25000 to run her office and broke the #ministerialcode
Cant believe the UNDER-SCRUTINY of this woman
#pritipatel
Watching the day Diana died. I still remember. I couldn’t stop crying.
The vultures in the press were hunting her to death. Here we are 29 years later and they are doing the same to her son.
It is truly shocking to witness.
18 h seitdem die Times dieses Story brachte. Keine andere Zeitung ist bisher gefolgt.
Der eigentliche Skandal: diese machtvolle Institution wird seit Jahrzehnten nicht kontrolliert - nicht vom Parlament, nicht von der Presse. Kein Wunder, dass die Royal Family so schamlos wurden.