Institutions large and small will always produce what they were designed to produce. Britain's biggest problem is that the Institutions by which it defines itself are based on a concept of Britain that no longer exists - if it ever did at all.
The Windsors are an institutional byproduct. Racism is an institutional byproduct. The attitudes that tolerate this are institutional byproducts. Look at the front page of the Daily Mail for a clue as to how institutions behave when they feel threatened.
People losing their shit because an abtract idea in which they've become emotionally enmeshed is coming apart under the duress of truth. I don't grudge anyones guilty pleasure, but they are protecting Andrew while throwing a mixed race child under the bus.
Harry has had a security detail since the day he was born. Whatever you think, withdrawing it abruptly while his whereabouts was public knowledge is vindictive and cruel. Imagine the sense of vulnerability he must have experienced. Its an abusive way to conduct family business.
They couldn't afford it? They are on receipt of largest welfare check in the history of civilisation.
Get the corgies on gumtree. Shouldn't have had a royal family if you couldn't afford to raise it 😕
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In Morgan’s formidable estimation, Markle is an unscrupulous liar, a Machiavellian manipulator and a covert narcissist – defects of character which would make the top-line of any psychological evaluation of Piers.
If you examine his body-language as he is taken to task for his opinions, his demeanor is consistent with that of a person wounded. The defeated posture. The excruciation at being told a hard truth. Morgan fled the GMB studio in a desperate bid for emotional refuge.
It had nothing to do with his ‘principles’. Nothing to do with ‘free speech’. I can think of no man on this meanspirited backwater of an island who feels more empowered to speak quite as freely as Piers Morgan clearly does.
I don't think he quit. I think he was given the option to make it look like that. I think he was....cancelled.
40,000 complaints to Ofcom in less than 24 hours. Right wing press looking totally isolated in its reverence of the Windsors. ITV already had its corporate knuckles rapped after the role the Jeremy Kyle show played in the suicide of a guest.
The broadcaster tries to capture every demographic to maximise market share and ad revenue but creates for itself irreconcilable ethical issues. Its promoting a mental health awareness initiative while giving Morgan permission to run roughshod over guidelines on mental health
Trump has no guiding philosophy - just self interested instinct. Experience tells him by following it he will succeed at anything. Coincidentally, his instincts are perfectly calibrated to illicit a Liberal response that illustrate precisely how useless liberalism has become.
Even if Biden scrapes a victory, that it was so close in the first place, would represent the latest in a catalogue of failures of this vaccuous orthodoxy. Beneath Trump's disordered vulgarity lies something different in the eyes of many disillusioned Americans.
They want globalisation reversed. They want jobs back from overseas. They want less foreign meddling. And they want liberals who despise them for it to be repeatedly humiliated. Trump provides a sense that all of these things are occurring simultaneously.
Perhaps the sorest aspect of Corbyn's downfall is that it came down to accusations of racism - the definition of which the left has expanded in recent years. A lot of the intersectional concepts introduced to political discourse or cosigned by the left became its ultimate undoing
You had a lot of people resisting antisemitism accusations in a manner they themselves would deem unsatisfactory in any other case of racism. That they themselves would insist was just evidence of 'internalised' something or other.
It wasn't a good look to have elevated 'lived experience' as the ultimate benchmark of what constitutes truth to then be seen dismissing the 'lived experiences' of many Jews.
The death of George Floyd has rightly provoked anger, outrage and condemnation. The parallel discussion on-going in the UK around the racial disparities in the context of Covid-19 gathers pace by the hour.
Nearly every news report, and every opinion being expressed in traditional media about the issue (and of race generally) was that of a white person. Obviously, that should not have been a great surprise. but in the context of the current moment it made me uncomfortable.
Into my awareness came the complete realisation that even though I am often identified as ‘working class’ and that my writing deals mainly with matters of inequality, I am now also part of a larger structural problem – mainstream media dominated by white perspectives.