Prince Harry’s utter vindication this morning in his High Court case against the Murdoch press (https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/prince-harry-v-murdoch-lawyers-due-back-court-after-last-gasp-deal-talks-2025-01-22/) is a rare ray of light in today’s on-going war between Good and Evil. I’ve not much time for the British royal family, least of all for Harry after the scandal of his wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy-dress party twenty years ago (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jan/13/royalsandthemedia.pressandpublishing); but to my mind he has fully made up for that with the battle he has been waging, at some risk to himself, against our over-powerful and, yes, ‘evil’, Fourth Estate. It will be interesting to see what the Sun – his main adversary – makes of it all tomorrow.

Unfortunately it won’t have as much impact as it would have done in the days when people still read newspapers, before they switched to the social media. (Of course neither is completely evil; you still have the Guardian, and this blog.) In connexion with which it was depressing – even scary – to see our social media lords and masters given second-row seats at Trump’s Inauguration; quite apart from the (allegedly) Nazi salutes that one of them gave to a rally of MAGA Republicans shortly afterwards. I think that even the twenty year-old Harry would have baulked at that.