Britain’s tabloid-hating liberal elites have spent the past decade trying to bring the press under closer control, demanding the state-backed regulation proposed by the 2012 Leveson Inquiry / Inquisition. They now appear happy to use Harry and Meghan as human shields behind which to further their campaign.
Time to remind everybody that the struggle for press freedom in Britain, which set the historical standard for the rest of the world, was intimately bound up with winning the liberty to lampoon princes and ridicule the royals. Nobody with an ounce of feeling for freedom of the press should be lining up with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to make the media less offensive to aristocrats.
Prince Harry might claim that his mission is to modernise. But there is something very traditional about royals seeking to regulate what the media can report.
[Don’t cheer too much. The royals also exploit the same press at least as much as they complain about it. They court this attention — pun intended — and then want reform when their narratives don’t prevail. — Ed]
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