"Spare" beats the press at its own game: excellent review of the book & US culture...

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138. What are you struggling with? Let this not-a-progressive assist...

I stand by what I said to you in another thread. You're way too emotionally invested in this soap-opera. Now you're trying to turn it into some sort of political litmus test. I'm a socialist politically and the only divide I see on the whole Harry/Meghan thing is Americans/UK and commonwealth countries. Americans worship the ground Harry and Meghan walk on. There's no deviation from blindly agreeing with everything they say or do lest another person turn up to accuse you of racism for daring to question whether Harry talking about his dick with Colbert was a good idea or not. In the UK and some Commonwealth countries, people just don't really care that much. Here in Australia we've got far more weighty things to deal with, like the upcoming referendum for the Indigenous voice.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/28/australia-to-hold-referendum-on-indigenous-voice-next-year

Maybe in the US things are that bizarrely weird that Harry & Meghan are a political issue. It wouldn't surprise me because the US is a very weird place right now. But that's not how it is most other places. I hope Harry sorts himself out and finds a life for himself where his value is far more than being fodder for entertainment news and Americans who thrive on the British monarchy even though their ancestors held the equivalent of a referendum and voted for a republic.

Speaking of which, I'm one of the very few in this thread who has a say about the monarchy. Sorry to say, but Harry's ghostwritten book hasn't swayed my opinion on how I'll vote on any referendum we have about the monarchy. I'll be voting against us becoming a republic because I'd rather have a vanilla ceremonial head of state than some stupid but dangerous fuckwit like Trump...