Harry's Mad

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Never was a truer word said than when someone uttered “Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em”. They do indeed. After all, Queen Elizabeth II had the Duke of York. It is only fair to say that “Randy Andy’s” activities, though still damaging, were as nothing compared with Prince Harry’s compulsion to hurt his family. Unfortunately, he has fallen in with a bad lot who are bent on exploiting his affliction for filthy lucre. They know they are on to a good thing because gossip and scandal – especially of the Royal variety – are what makes the world go round for many people. It could be argued that In this way we are all guilty of a form of cruelty. There ought to be a law against it. Until we see a drastic pruning of that monstrosity – how do they fit them all in? – accompanied by other bloated Ministerial teams incredulity rather than credibility will greet the Government’s every pious pledge. Harry is a bit miffed to inherit a parrot from a great-uncle he’s never met, but Madison, the parrot, turns out to be a fun surprise. Madison is a brilliant bird that can help with homework, do crosswords, and share delicious recipes. Things are going peachy until the unthinkable happens and Madison is stolen.

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I loved this book as a kid and recently unearthed my mildewed, yellowed copy from my parents' garage. So i figured I'd read it one last time before consigning it to the bin. Among his well-loved books is Babe, The Gallant Pig, which was recently made into a major motion picture, and was nominated for an Academy Award. I read a couple of books by this author over the weekend. I didn't enjoy either of them. I wouldn't do a review I can't justify and I started this with a little trepidation too. Turns out I enjoyed this a lot more Ethan the previous books of King-Smith I have read. If the Government goes into it without any credibility about its economic plans, it will surely lose, even if the Opposition is in reality just as vacant.But so far – and this is the sore on the fair face of Government – we have heard precious little as to how the Government proposes to economise. Watching Prince Harry emoting to interviewer Tom Bradby for more than an hour and 40 minutes it was impossible not to feel sympathy.

mad - SIR BERNARD Kindest thing on Harry is that he has gone mad - SIR BERNARD

They are the ones who want to read the royal news and gossip; if the media did not provide it and feed their enthusiasm the institution would wither. As a self-confessed believer in the monarchy, Harry presumably does not want that. It is understandable that Harry has been marked for life by what happened to his mother. Some of what the tabloid press did in the 1980s and 1990s, in an era of frenzied commercial competition was frankly deplorable.But by and large, partly as a result of that experience, the British press has been more restrained in recent years. The paparazzi are still with us but their market these days is continental and American – many of the headlines shown in the recent Netflix documentary were from US supermarket tabloids and the photographs of massed ranks of photographers were taken from other, non-royal events on different occasions. Without a clear public understanding as to how it intends to cut its cloak according to the available cloth, it might as well be talking to the birds. Public pledges are meaningless without explaining how they will be achieved. I think I have rather higher expectations of the Government if only out of political necessity, to remedy the yawning gap in its credibility, though whether it will do it in time is another matter. I refer to Rishi Sunak’s pledge to reduce spending. Would Harry rather return to the deference of the press in the 1930s, when it failed to report Edward VIII’s burgeoning love affair with Wallis Simpson until it was all but a fait accompli? The lessons of that experience are that deference does not work when there’s a genuine crisis brewing and even then the story was being widely reported across the world while the British remained in ignorance. The family realizes that they can’t let anyone outside of the family know about Mad’s talents. Also that Mad is quite an addition to the family in many ways.