Bread and Royal Circuses...
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stowie
Active Member
This apparently is the actual text from the book (but who knows, I certainly don't plan to read it)
The context does show it in rather a different light, with Prince Harry (is he still a Prince, I cannot keep up?) seemingly wrestling with the morality around soldiering. Could have probably made the same points without mentioning the exact number, but it doesn't much sound like bragging when read in context.
Whether the book needed to be written in the first place is probably another question.
The context does show it in rather a different light, with Prince Harry (is he still a Prince, I cannot keep up?) seemingly wrestling with the morality around soldiering. Could have probably made the same points without mentioning the exact number, but it doesn't much sound like bragging when read in context.
Whether the book needed to be written in the first place is probably another question.
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Fab Foodie
Guru
The media - never letting the truth get in the way of a good headline....
Regarding the book, as Claudine states, anything that brings about the demise of the Royal Family is a good thing. It certainly exposes this family and Institution (feted around the world) as the pointless privilidged sham it is.
Long live the King...but after that, no more....
multitool
Shaman
It's certainly been an interesting phenomenon. So much at play. I remember Will Self once suggesting that the Monarchy should be replaced with paid actors, but in a sense that is what they already are. It's the Truman Show. We are asked to indulge in a sort of fantasy, with the royals obediently playing their part and the media employing a coded double-speak of deferential obsequiousness. Harry's transgression is to break the fourth wall now faces the full wrath from other institutions which live in symbiosis with the Monarchy. The more the RW media attack Harry and Meghan, the more they prove Harry and Meghan's point.
ebikeerwidnes
Well-Known Member
This thing about him having killed 25 people
Thing I don;t understand is that an Apache carries several different types of weapon
the gun is only one
if he was called to protect some soldiers from incoming fire from a building then he would have used a missile - which could have killed several people inside the building and he wouldn't know
He would just see, or get a report, that the incoming fire had stopped
so the concept that he knows he killed 25 is probably either untrue, naive or deliberately blinding himself to reality
any/all of which matches everything else he seems to be saying -
Thing I don;t understand is that an Apache carries several different types of weapon
the gun is only one
if he was called to protect some soldiers from incoming fire from a building then he would have used a missile - which could have killed several people inside the building and he wouldn't know
He would just see, or get a report, that the incoming fire had stopped
so the concept that he knows he killed 25 is probably either untrue, naive or deliberately blinding himself to reality
any/all of which matches everything else he seems to be saying -
matticus
Guru
I thought he was going to abdicate straight away and pass the keys to Wills?
Wonder where I read that ...
presta
Member
Someone on Twitter was asking where his bodyguard was when he was snorting coke, I was wondering where they were when he was round the back of the pub. 
Yes, I wouldn't be a royal, for all their money. I'd often wondered if they're allowed to dip their wick, imagine if a slapper from a sink estate gave birth to an heir to the throne conceived up against a wall in a pub car park.
The Rattlebone Inn, Sherston according to the Mail. I wonder if they'll be getting a blue plaque now.
Perhaps invite her on HIGNFY and have Paul Merton ask her.
multitool
Shaman
Aptly named pub
Badger_Boom
New Member
Not necessarily. The rules of proportionality and/or military necessity mean that if it’s only a couple people with guns and they can be clearly targeted using the gun, then that would greatly reduce the risk and scale of any collateral damage. Also, if operating in close proximity to coalition troops, missiles or rockets would be too risky.
Badger_Boom
New Member
Or read the many books written about and by WWII fighter pilots?
Apart from a small number, most write in terms of destroying machines rather than killing the enemy even if that was clearly the most likely end result.
matticus
Guru
Even the Guardian seem to be Prince Harry fans now!
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...-it-could-have-turned-the-queen-anti-monarchy
Beebo
Veteran
Unlike Andrew, Harry will have at least rehearsed the interviews and practiced his answers. He is media savvy.
