The fragile crown
In an age of social media and conspiracy, the royal family is trapped between what it wants and what the…
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Meghan Markle is the perfect metaphor for wellness
A focus on smoothies and yoga means never questioning the societal forces that cause bad health, or that allow you…
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Why you can’t cancel Jeremy Clarkson
The presenter embodies a deathless English conservatism.
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Prince Harry’s ITV interview revealed more about posh British men than the tabloids or the royals
This interview was the prerogative of two ex-public school boys. The rest of us, less privileged, can only watch.
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Prince Harry has broken the royals’ infantilising code of silence. It’s about time
By speaking out in his autobiography, Spare, Harry challenges a repressed institution that traduced his grief and demanded his mute…
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Royal drama is a respite from the catastrophes on the news
The country will still be falling apart when we’re sick of Prince Harry’s revelations, and we all deserve a bit…
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What Prince Harry teaches us about dealing with family trauma
Is the millennial method of airing grievances the right one?
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Beneath the culture wars, we are not nearly so binary
It is possible to both view climate change as an existential crisis and support JK Rowling’s view on trans rights.
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Why the Sun must sack Jeremy Clarkson
It doesn’t matter what you think of Meghan. What matters is what you think about women.
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Why Jeremy Clarkson’s comments about Meghan don’t surprise me
His words have only made the unspoken explicit: how the media perceives women.
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The Meghan and Harry documentary isn’t really about Meghan Markle at all
For all she dominates, this isn’t a story about the duchess. It’s much bigger than that.
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Harry and Meghan are contradicting themselves on privacy law
Once Netflix is invited into your lives, it's harder to claim newspapers shouldn't be.
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We’ve given Prince Harry no choice but to sell his story again and again
As Meghan Markle so obviously understands, the modern royal family is first and foremost a branch of show business.
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Meghan’s Netflix documentary is made for Americans like me, not British people
It gets to the heart of transatlantic cultural differences over openness, class and racism.
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Netflix’s Harry & Meghan can’t disguise how much of this story doesn’t add up
The show is a Seventies Timotei ad meets The Crown with some light top notes of the Ladybird book of…
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle show the monarchy isn’t fit for the modern world
Of course the royals feel trapped and miserable – the institution can’t be changed from within.
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The Queen’s death has become an opportunity to bash Meghan
She’s condemned both for not turning up to royal events, and for daring to appear in public.
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Boris Johnson is about to become the Tories’ Meghan Markle
Removing his title will not diminish his influence: it will expand it.
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From Diana to Meghan – why do the British problematise displays of emotion?
It’s not victimhood to express feelings – it’s good for your mental health.
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Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast is toe-curlingly cringey – but insightful, too
The jaunty pep-talk style may irritate Brits, but it will surely appeal to the duchess’s liberal American fans.
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