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August 2026 There’s a really telling headline floating about, about how Prince Harry’s older brother William and his wife, Kate, were “blindsided” by the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes’ decision to return to the UK. And it’s just occurred to me that William and Kate really don’t realise that they aren’t the main characters. Harry […]
August 2026 For years, the palace‑press machine has insisted that Harry and Meghan were gone. Unwelcome, irrelevant, and preferably never to be mentioned again unless it was to remind the public of their permanent gone-ness. The briefings were so repetitive they became a kind of national white noise: the Sussexes are persona non grata … […]
August 2026 By now you may have heard the “shock” news that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to the UK at the end of the month, and will be spending part of their lives here. Archie and Lilibet are said to already be enrolled in British schools, and the family has apparently […]
August 2026 You may have noticed that the Duchess of Sussex, despite all the ways the Palace-Press machine has worked to sabotage her, is doing rather well outside the Firm. Hollywood, especially, isn’t an easy place to make it. But Meghan’s made it twice – the first time before she met Harry, and the second […]
August 2026 Jason Arday’s death is forcing a reckoning with the brutality of Britain’s media ecosystem, and with the institutions that insist they are merely “doing journalism.” The Guardian, which positions itself as the sober, responsible counterweight to the right‑wing press, said in Monday’s editorial: “The university publicised the symbolic dimensions of his appointment as […]
August 2026 Jason Arday deserved to be known for his work, his gentleness, his curiosity, and the improbable, hard‑won path he carved through a world that was never designed with him in mind. Instead, in the final months of his life, he became a character in a story written by others. A story that grew […]
August 2026 The British tabloids have a favourite magic trick. They take something obviously successful, wave a headline over it, and – poof – it becomes a “disaster”. The Duchess of Sussex in Hollywood is one of their long-running illusions. According to the Daily Mail, her “Tinseltown dream is crumbling”, her projects are “snubbed”, and […]
August 2026 There’s a kind of survival that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t look triumphant or cinematic. It looks like recognising danger early, naming it clearly, and stepping away before it can claim more than it already has. In Britain, where public hostility toward Black visibility is both historic and ongoing, that kind of survival […]
August 2026 Botswana is a place that has threaded itself through Prince Harry’s life for decades. It’s where he first found a sense of calm after losing his mother, where he has returned again and again to breathe, to work, to reconnect with something steady and grounding. It’s where he took Meghan early in their […]
August 2026 Amanda Platell’s column comparing Jason Arday to Meghan Sussex was the culmination of a decades‑long pattern of personalised cruelty. Platell has built a career on turning vulnerable people into moral cautionary tales, and her decision to place Arday, a Black academic already under immense pressure, alongside Meghan, a Black woman she has targeted […]
