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‘F**k you, communist’: Pratt slams Mamdani in epic Independence Day message

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Hey, guess what?Now it's time for a bit of lefties losing it.And well, it seemed like half the world was celebrating the 4th of July this past weekend, but the other half was celebrating Taylor Swift's marriage to Travis Kelce.And gosh, would you look at this?Isn't it funny that all those celebrities who showed up, who normally go all in for the left and open borders, well, for this star -studded event, what did they have?Walls and police and, take a look at these, borders!

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Oppressive border walls!Hey, hey, sorry, I'm gonna call this one out here.I mean, really, why do they need the border walls?Shouldn't all of the stars of stage and screen in Hollywood also get to enjoy the enrichment of open borders?Don't they want to experience diverse cuisines?Anyway, meanwhile, Here at one of the World Cup venues, an American and a Pakistani -born English national, well, in this video, they meet and they have a little chat about colonialism, America, and the things that they can agree on.

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Well, this is really heartwarming, but I warn you, there's a bit of a sting in the tail here.What would Gandhi say about you wearing that shirt?

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I mean, I have a lot of feelings about colonialism.I'm actually Pakistani, so colonialism aside.It's nice to be wearing the England shirt.Even though I've lived in the US almost half my life.I'll never wear an America shirt.Yeah, I wouldn't either.

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This shirt sucks.Death to America.Yeah, death to America.As the Iranians say.Yeah, hell yeah.But not death to England?

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No, because England's already dead.

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Ooh, England already dead.Anyway, the US will really bein as parlous a position as the U .K. ifK.if this sort of thing keeps happening.Meet Mayor Nadia Mohammed of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, who, guess where she spent her Fourth of July?

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in the palace of Somalia's president.

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And doesn't she look pleased with herself?But I got to say, if she loves Somalia so much and America is so terrible, Why doesn't she just stay there?Ah yes, the eternal question.But anyway, let's turn back to the UK.And this woman, apparently, yeah, she's a journalist.Her name is Yasmin Abhali Brown, and she's even less thrilled about American independence than King George was all those years ago.

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Have a listen to this one.

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I'm sorry, America, but you still don't know how hated your country is.July 4th, 2026, America's Independence Day.The anniversary will be extravagantly celebrated, but America today is a frightful place.Slavery is being whitewashed.Academics, teachers and activists who try to stop the erasure are being ostracized.

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Where do you even begin with that level of historical illiteracy?blaming the US, and also I suppose by extension the UK, for slavery.These are the two countries that fought to end the practice.Is she going to be talking about that?I don't think so.Anyway, I wanted to bring that to you because I thought it was a serious case of not just Trump derangement syndrome, but everything else related to America derangement syndrome.

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And I think you're going to need a little palate cleanser after that.What do you reckon?So for that, let me give you Spencer Pratt.You remember Spencer Pratt?He ran for mayor in Los Angeles and was in with a shot to go through to the runoff until, you'll remember, the third place socialist candidate just happened to pull ahead in the stakes with a whole bunch of late ballots.Well, turns out we have not heard the last of this guy.

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Have a look at his 4th of July message.you communists this is our home and you can't have it today we celebrate our independence day god bless america i'm gonna call it now i think governor pratt has a pretty nice ring to it now finally well warning for any lefties out there watching because i think you're really gonna lose it if you see this one a bunch of american patriots showing us what it was all about this fourth of july yep that's right free bird and firearmsremember Calla Walsh.She was a former darling of the Democrats and the Democrat Socialists of America.Well, she's been in trouble for her activism, her direct action programs, which have gotten her in trouble with the law in the past.But guess what?

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She's hit a new low over the weekend after she attended, you're not going to believe this here, the actual funeral for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.Now, It actually gets worse and weirder that she did this.I mean, not only was it on the 4th of July, but she released a propaganda video declaring that he was, that is the Ayatollah, the greatest anti -imperialist leader in the world.

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The U .S.and Israel were mistaken in thinking that by assassinating the leader that they could overthrow the Islamic Republic.In fact, this aggressive move, this audacious move, has actually only had the opposite effect, in that the people are more determined than ever in favor of the revolution, in defending the Islamic Republic, in defending Iran's sovereignty.Despite us not trusting the U .S.

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and Israel to fulfill their agreements, we know this war is probably not over.But it's still fair to say that the U .S.has been more humiliated than it has ever been before in its history, and it has signed away huge concessions to Iran.It seems like this funeral will be one of the biggest funerals in all of world history.He was a leader to all people of the world who struggle against imperialism, against arrogance, against Zionism, against genocide.

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I don't even know where to begin with that one, so to help sort that out, I'm joined now by Newsweek's senior editor at large, Josh Hammer.Josh, I have a feeling that somewhere Jane Fonda was watching that video and going, girl, you got to pull that back a little with the trees and stuff.I mean, at what point do we have to assume that leftism is just, I don't know, a mental illness for these people?

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You know, Jane Fonda was actually the exact same thing that I was thinking of as I was watching that horrific clip that we were just subjected to.Frankly, Jane Fonda is blushing, I think, somewhere, as you correctly say.This is just Jane Fonda taking steroids to the very next level.I mean, frankly, where to begin with all that was just said.It is literal Iranian propaganda.This is literal propaganda for the world's number one states monitor.

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You can see the URL right there, PressTV .ir.This is Iranian regime media.This is an American who is over there, as you correctly note, on the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, a nation that was conceived in liberty, a nation unique among all the modern nations, certainly at the time that it was founded, that held these truths to be self -evident, that all men are created equal.You take that, on the one hand, and you compare it with the apocalyptic Shiite supremacist jihadist theocracy that was led by the communist and communist regime, and tragically is still led by it today there, and you choose to do the latter and not the formal, this is absolutely treasonous behavior.I mean, I can't think of a better way to articulate the fact that you could, you might as well just say on camera that I am a traitor to my country.

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Look, I don't know if this woman currently has a U .S.citizenship.Maybe she voluntarily gave it up.This is a not unpopular thing to do for a lot of these types who so deeply hate and abhor their country, oftentimes would just voluntarily relinquish their citizenship.But frankly, you know, I would at least commence investigation because it strikes me as not within the realm or not outside the realm of possibility, that someone like this has committed one or more offenses that would deem her worthy of denaturalization if she has not done so already.

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This is just galling.It is horrific.It is disgusting.And at a bare minimum, what I would say is someone like this should not be allowed back into the United States.in short order.She should probably be detained and asked a lot of questions because I have a lot of questions frankly about what I just saw and I'm not sure we got all the answers there in that video clip.

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Oh look I tell you what if I was flying back into the U .S.I wouldn't want to be the guy behind her waiting to get through all the questions at the desk that I'm sure they're going to have here but the thing that strikes me about Calla Walsh and this sort of you know, cosplay revolutionary leftism is.She's clearly, the way she presents herself, when you look at her background, she comes from a very, you know, good, well -off, posh background.What we're seeing so much with these kids who are getting into this sort of movement, some of the other, you know, radical, socialist, communist movements we're seeing in America, it feels very much like we're going back to the 1960s, when, you know, the children of the upper middle and upper middle classes You got involved with the communists in North Vietnam and Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung.And like, it's just history repeating in some senses.

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Yeah, except in many ways, it's actually even worse.So if you take 1960s in the United States, you had the civil rights struggle and Martin Luther King becamethe symbol of the civil rights struggle.And Martin Luther King had his flaws as many human beings, essentially all human beings do.But overall, he had a very sound legacy.He was a very good man because he stood for the basic proposition that you should judge human beings not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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I say all that because the man, the rival at the time who Martin Luther King Jr. shunted to the side was Malcolm X. Malcolm X was a radical.Malcolm X was someone who believed in radical black nationalism, the Black Panthers, and who advocated at times outright overt anti -white racism at quote unquote best, and at worst, sometimes he would advocate just for violence.And because we know that there's nothing new under the sun, we've seen that in the aftermath of the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter.So you had the Martin Luther King wing of the race movement from the 1960s, They're now the deep moderates, actually.The Malcolm X stuff, that's actually, these days, frankly, it's all the rage on the left.Look at people like Ibram X. Kendi, who famously says that the way to rectify previous racism is through current racism, and the way to remedy current racism is through future racism.

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He's literally saying that you should be racist.That's just Malcolm X. That is just the resuscitation of all these dead, morbid ideologies and the very hateful figures.So, frankly, the 1960s, in some ways, yes, it's playing again.In some ways, frankly, I think it's actually even worse now than it was then.

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Yeah, no, look, I think you're right about the fact that this is actually worse because there's bigger consequences attached.But it also gets into something else, this broader conversation, you know, about this younger generation that is drifting towards the far left.And I was struck by White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt, who had some remarks on this.She said they're drifting to the left due to a mix of laziness and liberal indoctrination on college campuses.Have a listen, because I want to get your reaction to this.

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In my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouth, just getting everything handed to them.That's not the values this country was built on.It was built on meritocracy and hard work, pulling up your sleeves, pulling yourself up from your bootstraps and achieving the American dream.And we need to protect it with all we got.Is it laziness?A little bit.

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Is it because the professors said, country's corrupt, it's evil, and we just need to shake them down and hand money out.

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It's laziness and it's the liberal indoctrination.

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Josh, I reckon she's got a point.What do you think?

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Oh yeah, look, the indoctrination is thoroughly off the charts at this point.Look, I think back, when I was first getting my bearings in the American conservative movements, I started reading about William F. Buckley, who was the founder of National Review.And I think back to the fact that William F. Buckley Jr. wrote his book, God and Men at Yale, in the early 1950s.He wrote that when he was in his 20s.It was considered to be one of the seminal books of the modern American right.But in his book, Buckley was writing about how Yale had become a godless, atheistic, communist place.

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He wrote this 75 -ish, give or take, years ago.So this has been going on for a very, very, very long time.The 1960s, which we were just talking about, brought it to a whole nother level, the invasion of the Frankfurt School, and Marcus, and Adorno, and the cultural Marxists.And now these days, it's just even worse.And frankly, it's actually not just at the university level.Unfortunately, now it's starting at a kindergarten, or maybe even at a pre -K level.

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And it's not even just happening in our public schools.I think it's kind of a bit of a crutch, frankly, for a lot of conservatives to say, public school is the problem and school choice will fix everything.Look, I support school choice.I've supported for my entire lifetime, but that's actually not a panacea because a lot of the private schools here are actually just very bad as well.We have a total problem when it comes to those who are credentialed who actually go into the teaching profession.My mother, bless her heart, she was a teacher for the final 20 -25 years of her life.

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And by the time that she retired in her mid -60s and her younger colleagues at the time, who were half to a third of her age, they were becoming radical too.And she saw this with her own eyes over the course of her career.She saw the changing of the profession there.So Carol Leavitt is more than onto something.And frankly, it's why I say that America's madrasas of wokeness should be defunded.There should not be a single penny, a single penny of American taxpayer dollars, in my opinion, that go to American higher education.

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I realize that that sounds like a bit of a bold statement, but I nonetheless think that is the correct remedy given our situation at hand at this time.

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No, look, I think there's a lot to that.I think the higher education system probably needs to be kind of burnt down and start again.Bill Buckley was correct in his diagnosis all those years ago, and it's amazing how little things have changed in some ways.But what else I'm fascinated by, Josh, is how these sorts of ideologies have affected absolutely every institution, every earthly institution on earth.And I say earthly institution because I want to mention Pope Leo, who is the first American Holy Father, head of the Catholic Church.He spent the 4th of July weekend.

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He didn't host a barbecue in the Vatican, but instead he went down to Lampedusa, which is a little island off the south of Sicily, to do a cheesy photo op where he called on European leaders to rise to the momentous challenge to welcome even more migrants.Lampedusa being the entry point for a lot of these people, mostly young men, making it across the Mediterranean.He made a big open borders pitched similar, I'm afraid, to his predecessor, Pope Francis, about the dignity and the rights of migrants.But Josh, I noticed that he didn't say a lot about the rights of host societies to say, we actually can't take anymore and this is causing us horrific problems.

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Listen, we've had two popes in a row now from Pope Francis and now Pope Leo who are all in on the mass migration.globalism, open borders agenda.It's highly unfortunate because the two popes prior to that, John Paul II and Benedict, were, for the most part, thoroughly right -thinking.I was actually a deep fan, a deep admirer, frankly.Even as a religious Jew, I was a deep admirer of both those men, John Paul II and Benedict.But these past two, Francis and Leo, leave a lot to be desired.

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I think it would be a very polite way of saying it.Frankly, I actually had some hopes When Leo was pitched, the first American Pope, it's a great story.Maybe the Vatican is trying to make peace with the White House and Donald Trump, and maybe we're gonna get on the same page about nationalism versus globalism.And unfortunately, it seems like it's more of the exact same.Listen, I think a token statement from the first American Pope would have been nice.I mean, after all, at the American founding, it was an overwhelmingly Protestant founding, but there absolutely were Jews, there absolutely were Catholics, there were many prominent Catholics back then there.

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Leo as the first American Pope probably missed opportunity.He should have made more of a point to talk about how America was founded on religious liberty.And yes, it was mostly Protestants there, but there were absolutely Catholics, Jews, and even a handful of some other faiths as well there.I think that would have been a very, very nice moment for the world's first American Pope.Unfortunately, I guess he had some other ideas to spend it.Not how I would have spent it if I were him, but I guess I'm not the Pope, so.

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side of politics is actually happening on the Catholic side of things, too.There's a big intellectual energy coming out of there.It's a bit of a missed opportunity, as you say.Just a couple of fun things here.Donald Trump, he's apparently had a hand in pushing FIFA, the World Cup people, to lift the red card suspension of a U .S.

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player.A U .S.official confirmed to the New York Post that Trump directly reached out to FIFA to ask them to take a second look at U .S.star Florin Belugin's suspension.

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the suspension, allowing him to play again.I kind of love this.Trump, I don't think he's a big soccer fan, but he's getting on the phone to make sure that the US gets a fair shot.What do you reckon?

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So this was an outrageous call.I am also not a huge soccer fan, but I've actually been watching every day of this World Cup.I've been very, very into it, especially since my country, the U .S., is hosting most of the matches.This call was insane.

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This call in the United States' last match against Bosnia and Herzegovina was an absolutely outrageous call there.I don't begrudge President Trump at all for getting involved.You know, frankly, there's a lot to be said about soccer.It's not my personal sport.It is the world's sport, I suppose.There's a lot of corruption.

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There's a lot of corruption in FIFA.I'm not saying that the referee who pulled out this outrageous red card was on the dole, was taking a bribe.I'm just saying that historically speaking, FIFA and corruption, there's been some Venn diagram overlap there.Let's go ahead and say that.So I think it'd be very rich for a lot of other folks to say, ah, President Trump is overstepping his bounds there.Well, you know what?

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FIFA's overstepped their bounds a lot of times over the years as well.And ultimately, what can President Trump do?What can he actually threaten What can he actually threaten FIFA?He can't threaten anything.The United States is, we're currently holding a tournament.Trump is going to attend the championship match.

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He's very excited, apparently, based on what I've read, to do so there.So he's placing a phone call as a concerned citizen, as a concerned spectator.I say all the more power to him.Again, the actual call, I'm not a soccer aficionado, but I've watched a match or two.This call actually was outrageous, frankly.I'm happy to see it overturned for now.

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Good stuff.Me too.Thank you so much, Josh Hammer.Fantastic chat.Catch up again soon.Well, let's get all the latest royal news in.

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Joining me now is News Corp columnist Angela Mallard.It has been revealed that Prince Harry will travel to London this week without Meghan Markle or their two children, Archie and Lilibet, due to an ongoing dispute.over security arrangements.The decision not to bring the kids into London makes it less likely that they will be able to meet the king for the first time in years.The purpose of the trip is to instead mark a year to go until the Invictus Games in Birmingham.Angela, tell us more about this.

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What more can you tell us about this, the security dispute, and I guess the sad fact that they all might not have the big family reunion?

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That's absolutely right, James.Well, this has gone backwards and forwards for the last eight days.So the Sussex team leaked it, that they were going to bring the children.Everyone got very excited about that.The palace, Buckingham Palace, sent an invitation to Harry and his family to say, you can stay at one of the royal residences.And then they've been waiting all week to see which one it's going to be and whether that will actually happen.

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Now Harry, at the 11th hour, has come out and said the security is not there to bring his children.It's not safe for them.The fact is the security wasn't there anyway.The Home Office is not prepared to extend taxpayer -funded security to a non -royal at this stage.They always, you know, they're constantly reviewing it.In this stage, they have been reviewing it.

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What I think Harry was trying to do was force the matter.He was trying to get...I mean, the King's never going to get involved in this, and that's possibly what Harry was hoping for.But anyway, the Home Office has turned around and said they will not have extra security.The fact is, though, that if they are in a royal palace, they do have that security.So, there's just this petulance, this back and forward.

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Realistically, what Harry was trying to do with this trip was, yes, bring the family together, but you can also see it was really an attempt to give them greater relevancy again.

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Well, yeah, I mean, it just seems that this security thing, and again, you know, I'm not in the behind closed doors conversation, I don't know the threat assessments, but this to me seemsvery much like he's trying it on.

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Very much so.I mean, look, it's a legitimate thing to consistently, as the terrorist situation changes, you know what's happening in America, that sort of thing.It is something that's constantly reviewed.And of course, that happens to politicians, members of the royal family, celebrities, everybody.But they have said The security isn't there.So why did Harry brief saying he was coming before?

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Look, he could have asked the Home Office, if I bring my children, will I have security?If they said no or if they said, yes, you'll have it in the palace, but not out in the streets of London.This is the thing, though, James, it could still he could still.end up bringing the kids.He said they're not going to London.He's also going to Birmingham as part of, as you said, it could be that the children go there.

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We haven't, it's not over yet.

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Yeah, and do we think though that there will be a meeting at least between Harry and his father, the King?

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You would hope so.The last time they saw each other was late last year.Obviously, the King is still being treated for cancer.And I think the King very much wanted to see his grandchildren.You know, they are five and seven now.They've moved on since they were babies, which is effectively when he last saw them.

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I think Harry will meet with his father.I definitely think Harry and William will not meet at all.That will not happen.There is no chance of that.

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Really?

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That relationship is so broken down.It's hard to imagine.in the current state, it would take something like the King's death or funeral, I think, to bring them together at the moment.

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And what does this all portend more broadly for the royal family?Because, you know, none of this helps the image of an institution which, let's be frank about it, has had its issues.You've written a great piece over the weekend, Why I Pity Poor Prince George, which is online now.Everybody out there, go find it, go click on it, go read on it right now, because you explain how young George, who's in line to inherit the crown, will do so at a time when the royal family is more and more of an outcast.Walk us through that.

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Well, I think that as well as being an afterthought, I mean, they still command, this is why we're talking about them, because they still command audiences and viewers.The issue is that when I was reporting on the royals back in the 90s, the monarchy operated separately to celebrity.Now it's like a sort of subset of celebrity.And the problem and the reason that is the case is that it's gone from are basically being governed by the Press Complaints Commission, the Press Council, as to what journalists can report.Now they're putting out their own material.So it's all about social media now.

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So it's the other issue is that with Andrew Mountbatten -Windsor and Harry, the standing of the monarchy in people's eyes has decimated.And so George would be inheriting this monarchy.I mean, it's decades away.pity a young boy who does not have the choices is going to be raised in the system when the late Queen Elizabeth was alive.She was protected by the mystique of the monarchy.That no longer exists.

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And that's the really interesting thing to me, because this whole old idea of the monarchy as the embodiment of the nation in the sovereign or the sovereign family, that's not there anymore, is it?

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only in a sort of, you know, in a figurehead way, not in an instrumental way.And, you know, 30 years ago, that was not the case.They were very much at the forefront of British life.Look, they are still a tourism calling card for sure.You people go and see the palaces and that sort of thing.But they're in this very difficult line.

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Not only is it their institutional duties that are changing, but it's the way they present themselves, the way they have to harness media themselves.to put out their own content, and for that to be absolutely perfect all the time.They cannot set a foot wrong.I think that's made it very difficult.You know, people think about the Diana years.That was the worst time to be a royal, and that's when I was reporting on it.

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I think it's going to be far, far worse for George.I mean, we have citizen journalism.Everybody has a phone.You remember when Harry was naked in Las Vegas playing strip billiards.Well, that could happen to George any day now that everybody has a phone.He's going to school.

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There'll be kids with phones there.

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As a monarch, it's a bleak prospect for those of us who love the institution of the monarchy, even if we don't always like the shenanigans that their individual members get up to.Thank you so much for your time and walking us through this.Thanks, James.

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