Royally Distracted?

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should convert to Catholicism, then there would be no need of legislation to remove him from the line of succession. Lucky us, that we run no risk of ever being caught up in any of this. The King has seven descendants, and there will be more to come, so the removal of his brother from eighth place is pure theatre. Like the arrest, which is supposed to be made only if a voluntary interview were impractical. In this case, how would it have been?

Meanwhile, Yvette Cooper remains in office despite having unlawfully proscribed Palestine Action, thus ruining people’s lives while wreaking havoc in the criminal justice system. John Healey remains in office despite having lied to Parliament that Britain faced legal challenges over the Chagos Islands. Steve Reed remains in office despite the cancelled and uncancelled local elections, which ended in his not contesting that he, too, had acted unlawfully. Josh Simons remains in office despite having falsely reported to GCHQ that critical journalists, including Keir Starmer’s Independent opponent at the General Election, had been Russian spies, and then having lied about it when he had been caught out. And Peter Mandelson remains as free as a bird.