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You might just be saying to yourself, well I've got bigger things to worry about than Harry and Meghan. You would be wrong. It's about you. These papers will treat you like they treat them. Their mission is to divide and sow hate. If it takes royalty to stop them, so be it... 1/6
If the country is divided by Brexit, these papers did it. More than any other group – more even than politicians – they are responsible. They make perfectly normal people hate the poor, Muslims, foreigners, trans people, women, black people and, yes, a princess... 2/6
They lie, they distort, they fabricate. And they are normally totally unaccountable. They have bent the law their way. They regulate themselves. They cover up for each other. The Guardian, the BBC, ITV will never call them out. So if it takes a royal lawsuit... 3/6
Let us see them squirm. Let us see them try to justify their racism. Let us see their shifty friends try to defend them. (But don't expect to see a single editor breaking cover because they are cowards and they hide.) And remember... 4/6
It did not need to be like this. The Tories deliberately wrecked the Leveson project to help their press chums – rich billionaires. The price of their action has been paid by people in their thousands, the powerless victims of press abuse. 5/6
But we CAN have change. One royal lawsuit is worth a lot, but it will not bring lasting change. Give us #Leveson2 now and it will trigger a transformation, not just of the press, but of life in this country. 6/6
