Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and welcome back to the spikes podcast I'm Fraser Myers and with me in the studio as ever we have

Spikes editor Tom Slater. And joining us down the line we're delighted to have

spiked columnist Rakeeb Esanne. Coming up on today's show Prince Prince Harry, the Brazilian riots and trigger warnings on children's literature.

So the Prince Harry memoir spare came out this week and I think it's fair to say it's been explosive

certainly a lot more exciting than a lot of people might have anticipated

especially if you watch that kind of six hour boring Netflix

Seuss Fest. We've actually learned quite a lot, especially lots of salacious details.

I mean there's talk of Harry's fisticuffs with William there's the there's the

amount of people he killed in Afghanistan right down to the frostbitten

penis and the time that he lost his virginity in a pub to an older woman.

I mean Tom, given that Harry is someone who's been banging on about his privacy and the

importance of that to him, doesn't this whole charade come off as a bit hypocritical?

Well it does, I mean it's been like this for a while with Harry and Megan is that first of

all they, especially where this book is concerned, the hypocrisy is

really hard to ignore. I mean even in some of the interviews around it

Prince Harry has said that he would be willing to meet with the royal family again

but he would be concerned about what would make it out into the press and yet here

he is essentially quoting directly from them, from text messages in some cases,

from very private conversations, things that would never see in the light of day.

Things which are going to almost sting more so for members of the Royal Family because there is that kind of water-badget idea of you know you're not supposed to let light in on the magic.

He's really letting the light in on all sorts of magical and very unmagical sort of moments that he experienced in his upbringing.

But also in terms of Harry and Megan themselves, you know, this has always been presented as a quest for privacy,

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