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Originally Posted by Pierre
The great and the good are all rallying around him, as if he is the victim………sickening.
Robert Peston, Alasdair Campbell, Jon Sopel, Owen Jones to name a few, which makes sense as I remember how understanding the likes of those were with Prince Andrew, when he did nothing illegal…………….
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If he has had his reputation trashed through the conduct of legal activity with another consenting individual, then he is a victim of Press character assassination and deserves sympathy. If his self-destructive behaviour is an outflow of his poor mental health then he deserves sympathy for his condition and best wishes for his recovery.
*At the same time* he is the one who gate-keeps many of the nation’s deepest moments of significance and it’s quite reasonable for us to expect a higher standard of behaviour from him than ‘it’s legal’ - much as we expected, and got, that from the Queen, whose death he announced.
Coming to a balanced, compassionate and pragmatic view of all this requires an attention to nuance that the internet does not typically do very well. Everyone here might benefit from a little quiet reflection rather than setting out their hot-take reactions and then defending them to the death.