Prince Harry Roasts The British Press
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I love a class traitor. Now by that I don't mean those who betray the interests of the working class |
| 0:05.4 | in favour of the privileged, the wealthy, the elites, but those born into wealth and power |
| 0:11.2 | into the very heart of the British establishment who then turn on it. Now it doesn't happen |
| 0:15.6 | very often to say the least. A famous example from history is Tony Ben or Anthony Wedgewood Ben |
| 0:21.1 | as he was originally known, the Labour MP of course, who thought to be able to renounce his |
| 0:26.0 | peerage so he could sit in Parliament, became the Labour Cabinet Minister, became increasingly |
| 0:30.1 | radical socialist over the course of his career. Now before I go on, a little caveat, |
| 0:35.4 | I'm clearly not saying that Prince Harry is a Tony Ben reincarnation, Prince Harry is not |
| 0:41.2 | afraid to report a radical socialist, this would be getting very silly, but he is someone born |
| 0:46.0 | into the very heart of the British establishment who has turned on it, and he's turned on it by virtue |
| 0:51.0 | of quite specific and unique combined personal circumstances. That is the childhood trauma |
| 0:57.1 | of the death of his mother, Princess Diana, and how she was treated in life, and the circumstances |
| 1:03.0 | which led to her death colliding with the adult trauma of the treatment of the woman he fell in |
| 1:08.8 | love with. His wife, Meghan Markle, the first woman of colour within the royal family. So rather |
| 1:14.4 | than do what most from such backgrounds do, embrace the power and the privilege go with the grain, |
| 1:19.1 | accept convention and tradition, his specific experiences have led him to turn, and what could |
| 1:24.4 | broadly be described as a nexus between the royal family and the media in particular, and what |
| 1:30.1 | makes the testimonies of an individual, such as Prince Harry so precious, is how rare they are, |
| 1:36.2 | and how they give particular insight because of their unique experiences and behind the scenes |
| 1:41.3 | insight. Now, Prince Harry has taken the British press to court, specifically the publishers of |
| 1:46.4 | the Daily Mirror, alleging they behaved unlawfully to gain access to his private life for stories. |
| 1:52.2 | Now, there has been multiple alleged phone hacking victims, of course, going right back to the |
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