Prince’s trust

PRINCE Philip’s funeral was the perfect opportunity to establish a truce.

After a year of Royal civil war, peaking with the Oprah catastrophe, it was a day for sober reflection and maybe the birth of a more peaceful future.

It’s not going to happen.

It was always a risk to William, Kate and other Royals that anything they said would be leaked.

The Oprah interview revealed just how easily private ­conversations relayed by Harry to Meghan end up on TV, either from her personally or via favoured friends.

After all, the Sussexes’ sole selling point is what they can tell America about the Royals.

Even their US fans don’t much care what they think about anything else — as we suspect the woke podcasters are about to discover.

We can only feel for William, no longer able to trust his brother.

What a disaster Harry has brought about.

Eco vs ego

Who’s doing more for the environment?

Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, propelling their nations towards a greener future at vast (and possibly unachievable) speed?

Or Extinction Rebellion, smashing bank windows again like disturbed, attention-seeking toddlers?

The Sun has doubts Boris and Biden can pull off the carbon reductions they promised yesterday without economic hardship and political disaster. But at least the PM is selling it in the right way.

If the eco revolution can be a job-creating economic goldmine not involving deterrent taxes, crippling costs or diet edicts, the public will back it.

What, though, do the increasingly irrelevant XR mob imagine they are contributing when every infantile “protest” further repels ordinary people?

These middle-class hippies have been indulged too long.

China wobble

The huge 95 per cent cut in our aid to China is years overdue.

What a pity Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s admirably tough position, and that of Parliament yesterday, is not matched by all our allies.

New Zealand refuses to condemn Beijing via the Five Eyes security alliance to which we both belong. It wants to respect China’s “traditions”.

These now appear to include enslaving Muslims, crushing democracy, global hacking and imposing sanctions on British MPs critical of the regime.

The Kiwis are protecting their Chinese exports. Not a heroic stance, is it?

Arms race

The EU’s Covid advice has been bonkers.

But when it says jabbed folk should now be allowed to hug their rellies, who would argue? The risks are tiny.

How about it, PM? Embrace freedom!

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