Online Safety and Princes

I was just watching the breakfast news as usual, and alongside the normal stream of doom and gloom, there was a story which I must admit really got on my nerves. So-called Prince Harry has gone to represent the country at an online child safety conference in Brussels. I’m sure I won’t be alone in finding that more than a little disquieting, if not problematic. Online safety is obviously an issue of increasing importance: it is vital that children are kept safe while on the increasingly dystopic free-for-all which is the web. Surely the last thing we need is such so-called royals muscling in on such events and using them for their own publicity and esteem. After all, Harry Windsor has no degree. He has no particular interest or expertise in online safety, so why the smeg should he be suddenly representing the country on the issue, if not just to get his grinning, cheesy face into the press, and to divert attention away from the crimes of his father in law? He, like the rest of his family, clearly thinks that if he frames himself as some kind of national ambassador or force for public good, we’ll forget that they’re just attention seeking chavs who have been leeching off the state for the last two centuries. It’s just a big entitled scam, and as a society we need to grow out of it.

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