Friday 7 February 2020

He's Free

Which central government buildings, exactly, fly the Union Flag on Royal Birthdays and what have you? Do hospitals? Do Post Offices? Do job centres? Do even police stations? Have you ever seen this anywhere outside the Armed Forces?

Anyway, Prince Andrew should not go to America to answer questions until Anne Sacoolas has come back to Britain. No one has accused him of killing anybody, whereas she more or less admits to it. He should say that he would cooperate when she did, and that he would present himself in the Southern District of New York when she presented herself in the southern district of Northamptonshire.

Frankie Boyle made a joke about Prince Andrew on his Christmas show. The whole thing has become a joke, and that joke has already been made on television by comedy royalty, so that anyone trying to make it again would be nothing but a poor imitator. "This story isn't going to go away," is the cry of people who feel that they have to keep saying it. And we all know what that means.

This business is now at the back of the drawer that contains saucy postcards, Carry On films, and Mrs Slocombe's pussy. But they are all much funnier than it is, so at the back of the drawer it will remain, along with Confessions of a Window Cleaner.

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