‘Meghan and Harry should fear Oprah – just ask Uncle Andrew about Emily Maitlis’ – Paul Routledge

M-Day only has two weeks left! The suspense is unbearable.

If you are a fan of the Meghan and Harry soap opera, that’s fine.

On March 7, the American television channel CBS will broadcast the thoughts of the Duchess of Sussex, as told to Oprah Winfrey.

Until Meghan Day, we are subject to a media frenzy of speculation, calculated leaks and fake news.

Another chapter in the daily history of the royal people.

The Duchess, alternately obsessed with privacy and hungry for publicity, can speak first, before the Dook (as Americans call him) is allowed on the studio couch.

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The show will be repeated more strictly than a play at the Royal Shakespeare. What could go wrong?

Well, pretty much everything. Ask the Duke of York, who thought he played blind when talking to Emily Maitlis.

Ask Harry’s father, Prince Charles, who blurted out his marital infidelity to Jonathan Dimbleby.

They think they’re smarter than interviewers – until they open the papers the next day and read the forensic investigation into their performance.

Then the proverbial hits the fan, with unfortunate consequences that never quite go away.

The images are shown over and over again, with excruciating embarrassment.

Buckingham Palace must fear that television history will repeat itself with the spectacular M&H.

Only Princess Diana was right.

She correctly calculated the media fallout from her “three people in this marriage” interview with Martin Bashir.

This brought him the sympathy of the public.

At least Charles and Andrew had the family to return to.

Harry cut himself off from this heartwarming refuge.

Meghan and her love-drunk Duke only have the ruthless business world of American film and television for the rest of their lives together.

I doubt there will be a happy ending to this fairytale romance, and the twisted-eyed Mrs. Winfrey just might hasten it.

Throw away this crazy bureaucracy

If an Englishman’s house is his castle, his shed is his private retreat. This is where he can cut himself off from the busy, futile world and get by for now.

And nowhere more than in traditional mining communities, where shed-making is a fine art.

No one should interfere with this basic human right, but the Northumberland County Council planning boards think otherwise. They are demanding retroactive authorization for sheds older than four years in the old village of Lynemouth Pit – or demolition.

The villagers are armed. I wish them well in their fight against the intimidating bureaucrats of Morpeth.

The criminal justice system collapses

The criminal justice system is collapsing, with 56,000 cases awaiting trial and victims waiting two years for justice.

New “Nightingale Courts” may ease the pressure, but the crisis predates Covid.

Lighthouse-sized Justice Secretary Chris Grayling closed courts, sold buildings, sacked staff and destroyed legal aid.

He now presents himself as the parliamentary champion of the much loved but increasingly rare hedgehog.

I await his request for a slaughter of our thorny friends, to “keep the number”.