‘SPARE’ US THE DETAILS
Harry book in Jan.
Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir will be titled “Spare” and it will be hitting the shelves on Jan. 10, the book’s publisher revealed Thursday.
Penguin Random House said in a press release the autobiography will be simultaneously published in 16 languages worldwide.
The title refers to the Duke of Sussex’s well-known label as a “spare” prince to the heir, his older brother, Prince William.
The release touts the 38year-old royal’s autobiography as “a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.”
The original publication of Harry’s memoir was set for November, but the release date was pushed back after the death of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Sept. 8.
The delay led to speculation that the duke was having second thoughts about dishing on the royal family or was rewriting the manuscript to make it less damaging to the Windsors.
Royal expert and famed magazine editor Tina Brown said at a literary event this month that there will possibly be “no way back” for Harry into the royal family if his memoir sees the light of day.
Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, stepped away from being working royals and moved to the US in 2020, settling in California with their children, Archie and Lilibet.
“They’re now in this bind, where they’ve taken all this money and Harry has made this book deal where he’s supposed to spill everything about his horrible life as a royal,” Brown said.
“But now he’s actually tortured about it because he understands there is no way back if he does it.”
The royal family is also reportedly “hugely nervous” about the book, Page Six previously revealed.
The 416-page tell-all is already available for preorder on Amazon, retailing for $36 for a hardcover volume.
YOU could be forgiven for not knowing what Trevor Noah has said. Most people in America have no idea. Ever since he took over from Jon Stewart in 2015, ratings of “The Daily Show” have plummeted. A program that used to pull in millions of viewers now regularly garners a few hundred thousand.
Who knows what the cause of that could be? Perhaps the American public doesn’t like being hectored by left-wing activists who couldn’t tell a joke even if they wanted to.
Take the moment this week when Noah (far right) managed to squeeze a whole segment out of the “racist backlash” that he claimed had followed the appointment of Rishi Sunak (near right) as this week’s British prime minister. Noah went on and on about the supposed racists who had so vocally opposed a Hindu of Indian heritage taking over as PM.
There were a number of problems with the segment. It was unfunny. It was labored. It was sermonizing. And it was also completely untrue.
No ‘backlash’
There has been no “racist backlash” in the UK over Rishi Sunak’s arrival on Downing Street. Not a thing. No politician has said anything racist. No newspaper or other media has said anything racist. There hasn’t even been a “backlash” of anonymous racist Russian Twitter bots. Sunak’s appointment had been most notable for the fact that race has played absolutely no role in it or its aftermath.
Perhaps the only racist thing that has happened has been President Biden seeming to have absolutely no idea how to pronounce Sunak’s name. Talking about the PM earlier this week, the president seemed to think his new counterpart was called “Rashee Sanook.” Biden once again proved himself the only man in the world who can make John Fetterman appear lucid.
Of course, Noah would have mentioned this if the president had been a Republican, but didn’t because it came from a Democrat.
At least if he had mentioned Biden, Noah would have had some evidence to base his claims on. As it was, he presented no evidence. Because he had none. And in this fact lies an interesting truth.
It is simply not the case that Britain — any more than America — is brimming with racists. It has just become a convenient fantasy of the “liberal” worldview.
Perhaps Noah thinks this way because he was born and grew up in South Africa, a country that actually did have organized racism in its recent past.
But the story of apartheid South Africa in the mid-20th century is not the story of 21st century Britain or modern America. Yet for people like Noah, that seems to be not a matter for celebration but a cause of resentment.
Joining Noah on the same edition of “The Daily Show” was comedian Ronny Chieng. He managed to get a whole segment out of saying it was incorrect to call Sunak an “Asian” because Indians do not count as Asians. This segment was not as funny as I just made it sound.
Yet throughout, Noah was sitting at his desk rolling around with merriment, as though this boring digression on which countries constitute part of Asia was the funniest thing on earth.
But it wasn’t and isn’t. It is just that Noah, Chieng and other leftists have to keep talking about an imaginary enemy and finding imaginary subjects for imaginary humor.
The truth is actually much more interesting and much more positive. The fact is that Britain has arrived at a place where sex and race have nothing to do with the reason people are appointed or voted into public office. The country does not go through endless discussions about whether a woman can ever lead the country. Because three women have, all conservatives, and all with — ahem — deeply varying degrees of competency.
Likewise, when Sunak was running for the leadership of the Conservative Party, people did not ask whether a man from an ethnic and religious minority could ever lead the country. The discussion was instead focused on who was the most competent person to put in charge of the country. Sunak has ended up as prime minister because he is the person deemed most able to run the economy, which is the Number One issue in Britain as it is in America.
If Noah and his fellow leftists looked honestly, they would see that the world around them is becoming increasingly colorblind. If only they could be, too.