It’s a story as archaic as the royal family itself. But please, spare us the lazy catfight tropes
The United Kingdom is hopelessly divided, unsure as to its future and so acutely at risk of constitutional crisis that it could soon become ungovernable. So it falls to the popular press not to soothe division but to distract us. The dead-cat strategy is useful just now. (According to a disciple of this practice – Boris Johnson – you simply throw a dead cat on the dining room table so people start talking about the dead cat instead of the issue that’s causing everyone grief.)
But what’s even better than a dead cat? Two living ones, I suppose, and thus the tabloid headlines this week have been about an imaginary “rift” between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton. I say imaginary because I don’t know the truth and nor, clearly, do the people writing this ludicrous stuff. They don’t know so much that even in their own speculation they have to put the words “rift”, “tension” and “feud” in quotation marks.
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