SOME recollections may vary. You can say that again, Ma’am.
Indeed Harry and Meghan’s recollections of their most toxic and damaging anecdote vary fundamentally even between the two of them. But we digress.
Let’s focus instead on the calm, measured dignity of the Queen’s statement despite the hurricane of hate hurled at the institution she leads — and which the Sussexes so despise.
The Palace could so easily have hit back hard. But Her Majesty knows Britain is divided — with older Brits mainly considering Harry and Meghan entitled, self-obsessed brats while millennials suspect they WERE hard done by.
The Queen’s riposte was rightly calibrated to appeal to both.
It played a straight bat to all those venomous barbs. But it conceded that the worst allegation, of a racist remark by a senior Royal, will be taken seriously . . . while hinting it may not have been as sold by Harry.
And it expressed a moving and unqualified love for the couple and baby Archie, a telling contrast to the viciousness of that interview two nights ago.
The Queen kept it short — and won’t comment further.
Sadly, we doubt that’s true of California’s self-appointed champions of compassion.
THE clamour to bring forward the end of lockdown will be overwhelming before long for Boris Johnson and his advisers.
Covid jabs are being rolled out at enormous speed and working even better than expected.
Deaths and hospitalisations are falling like a stone. Infections have been slashed. The extreme caution of Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty may soon look daft.
Today he warned we could still suffer like some nations across the Channel, now locking down again with a new rise in cases. But they have done a fraction of the vaccinations we have.
Scotland is relaxing some of its rules.
Boris will do our economy and well- being yet more lasting damage if he doggedly sticks to an unlock date still three-plus months away.
And so much for his pledge to be guided by “data not dates”. It seemed sound at the time.
When did the dates become sacred?
BRUSSELS catastrophically bungled its jabs rollout. But EU citizens need not lose sleep over the safety of 50,000 eurocrats.
They have sorted themselves vaccine shots at exclusive private clinics at the bloc’s three main institutions.
If only there was some way to vote out these self-serving officials.
But there isn’t. When will the scales fall from the public’s eyes across the EU, as they did here?
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