History is repeating itself with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Daily Mail

This can only be described as an abdication. Meghan and Harry have in effect withdrawn from their royal duties and will spend a large part of their future lives in North America.

Yet there seems little doubt that their decision has shocked Buckingham Palace and the wider Royal Family as it has shocked the country.It has been suggested that Meghan and Harry made their bombshell announcement without consulting the Queen. If true, that is, in my view, an atrocious lapse of judgment. The wording from the Palace last night, that 'these are complicated issues that will take time to work through', hints that the decision to abandon their royal duties is perhaps not as final as Meghan and Harry might wish it to be."

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle want to STAY at Frogmore Cottage after taxpayer-funded £2.4m renovation (but could have to pay RENT) and they want to KEEP £650k-a-year security

Daily Mail

Despite stepping back as frontline royals, Harry and Meghan have decided to keep Frogmore Cottage.

The public paid £2.4million to fund a renovation of the Grade II-listed property near Windsor Castle. And the couple announced last night they wanted to keep it so they would have 'a place to call home in the United Kingdom'. The phrasing raised the prospect that their main home will come to be regarded as being elsewhere, perhaps Canada.  It was decided taxpayers would help Harry and Meghan pay for Frogmore after the newlyweds eschewed their home in the grounds of Kensington Palace, wanting a place of their own.

This was a shoddy way to treat the Queen

Daily Mail

The sixth-in-line to the throne and his wife have decided to declare unilateral independence from a thousand-year-old institution on their own terms.

Coming just a month after another second son — Prince Andrew — inflicted a very different sort of damage on the institution, it is going to require some hard talking and painful home truths.

Just as the Queen and the Prince of Wales had to join forces to deal with the crisis created by the Duke of York following his disastrous interview to Newsnight, so there will need to be a joint approach in their handling of this predicament."

'I'll just simply say I'm disappointed': Meghan's estranged father Thomas Markle reacts to bombshell revelations his daughter and Prince Harry are quitting the royal family

Daily Mail

Meghan's estranged father spoke out just hours later, telling Us Weekly: 'I'll just simply say I'm disappointed.' Markle, a 74-year-old retiring lighting director, did not elaborate on the cause of his disappointment. He has not had contact with his daughter since before her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry and hasn't met his eight-month-old grandson Archie. "

Multi-millionaire couple seek "financial independence"

'So long peasants!' Social media explodes after Meghan and Harry say they are stepping down from royal roles (Daily Mail)

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex last night 'pressed the nuclear button' on their royal careers by announcing they are quitting their frontline roles.

Their dramatic decision was taken without the knowledge of the Queen, Prince Charles or Prince William, who learnt about the announcement via news channels.

The news was shared on the Sussexes' social media channels, causing a flood of reaction from Twitter and Instagram users. The couple, who plan to split their time between Britain and North America, made the bombshell announcement days after returning from a six-week break in Canada.

25 Simple Bullet Points Proving CO2 Does Not Cause Global Warming: by a Geologist for a Change (Dr Roger Higgs)

Electroverse
We urgently need to expose the ‘CO2 = pollutant’ fallacy being forced upon your children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces by schools, universities, governments and mainstream media worldwide, and to denounce it in scrupulously truthful terms easily understood by the public, including those youngsters themselves.

Here are the 25 bullet points proving CO2’s innocence:

Political correctness is about control and authority

Sky News
"Political correctness is about control and authority. It is a political tool design to determine precisely one course of action, one set of ideas. It tells us what we must do." (A Must See)
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1142577289504292864

The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World

Newsweek

The portrayal of Muslims as victims or heroes is at best partially accurate. In recent years the violent oppression of Christian minorities has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations stretching from West Africa and the Middle East to South Asia and Oceania. In some countries it is governments and their agents that have burned churches and imprisoned parishioners. In others, rebel groups and vigilantes have taken matters into their own hands, murdering Christians and driving them from regions where their roots go back centuries.
The media’s reticence on the subject no doubt has several sources. One may be fear of provoking additional violence. Another is most likely the influence of lobbying groups such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation—a kind of United Nations of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia—and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Over the past decade, these and similar groups have been remarkably successful in persuading leading public figures and journalists in the West to think of each and every example of perceived anti-Muslim discrimination as an expression of a systematic and sinister derangement called “Islamophobia”—a term that is meant to elicit the same moral disapproval as xenophobia or homophobia."

"Instead of falling for overblown tales of Western Islamophobia, let’s take a real stand against the Christophobia infecting the Muslim world. Tolerance is for everyone—except the intolerant."

BATTLE FOR BREXIT: Today should have been historic, but it’s shambolic

Express
The stalemate at Westminster represents an appalling betrayal of the British people. In the EU referendum of June 23, 2016 – 1009 day ago – after the biggest democratic exercise in our history, the electorate sent a simple instruction to our rulers.

But they have disgracefully failed to act on that mandate. Our country is no nearer to leaving now than it was in 2016. 
Almost three years have been wasted in enfeebled negotiations, procedural games and continual procrastination. 
Just think of the outrage if the roles had been reversed. Imagine if the Remain campaign had won the referendum, then Parliament had decided to ignore the verdict and gone ahead with our withdrawal from the EU. 
Such a scenario might seem absurd, but it is exactly what the establishment is now doing with Brexit. ....
But the biggest culprits of all are the Remainers, who have simply refused to accept the outcome of the 2016 referendum. 
In their arrogant disdain for the will of the people, they are the prime architects of the present fiasco."

How did we end up in this Brexit mess? Two words – Theresa May

Express
It is hard, nay impossible, to deny we are witnessing the last days of the worst premiership in living memory, perhaps for centuries   ...

Mrs May brought all her disasters on herself – and on us.
There was no reason for the snap election, but once it was called there was no need for the appalling manifesto or catastrophic campaign.
Having frittered away a clear poll lead and secured a hung parliament, the lady turned her zero talents to negotiating our people-mandated Brexit.
She had access to brilliant negotiators but rebuffed them all. She appointed David Davis and Dominic Raab as Brexit ministers, then undermined them until they had no choice but to resign. Then she negotiated herself, aided and manipulated by her personal guru, the bureaucrat Olly Robbins. ....
There was nothing she touched that did not develop into a self-inflicted disaster.  ......
The two words "No Deal" have been successfully demonised by the civil service (100 percent), the MPs (70 percent) and the media (50 percent).
You might think it was a thermonuclear bomb over the Home Counties.
It is only the switching from one framework of trading rules (EU) to the global alternative World trade Organisation (WTO) rules.
With preparation that would take a week of dislocation.
As not one hour was spent on preparation over two years, it will take most of the summer. But once the soul-destroying chaos is gone, our ever-ingenious traders will get the job done and get on with our new journey to prosperity under our own flag and laws. "

The PM has gone totally rogue simply in order to secure her legacy

 Cllr Molly Giles
"In simple terms the PM has gone totally rogue simply in order to secure her legacy and her deal which is so unpopular with her own party, her own voter and those who voted to Leave. She must be removed forthwith. Cabinet, Ministers and MPs must act."

Treacherous Theresa May has surrendered our freedom… and her honour

The Sun
She has wriggled. She has lied. She has concealed and dithered and caved. She is a freaking disaster.
The tragedy is that it need not have been like this.
Even on Tuesday afternoon, while she was having that ­seven-hour meeting with her Cabinet, she could have saved herself and our country.  .......
And yet No Deal could have been brilliant.
It could have secured us our independence from a European Union that now is sucking us back into its prison.
No Deal would have served our children’s interests because we would not have had to pay £39billion to Europe and because we would have been able to forge our own way in the world.
The ensuing instability might only have lasted a few weeks, if that.
Mrs May would not consider it. She collapsed like over- watered jelly, listening to dodgy Whitehall chief Sir Mark Sedwill and his (leaked) alarmist tales about what No Deal might do to our economy....Worst of all has been our parliament, where Remainer MPs and peers and a blatantly biased Speaker have actively sought to block the ­referendum verdict of 17.4million voters — a verdict they had repeatedly promised to respect. ......"