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My republican sentiments aside, can you not admit that the soap opera is riveting? Should our betters be unquestionable?

Genius! I think they need to sack the flunkie who released the photo in the first place, and give a massive pay rise to the one who thought up that explanation. I am genuinely impressed at their quick thinking!

Now normally I couldn't give a flying fig for our incredibly expensive, incredibly mediocre royal family, but this latest gaff is as fascinating as it is hilarious. But it raises serious questions about in just how much contempt the royal household holds us plebs that it tries to palm off the population with a Photoshop so bad that a 5 year old would be embarrassed, to try to suggest that all is not a disaster in buck house. No wonder Harry wanted out of that toxic cesspit. News agencies recall image of Catherine, Princess of Wales, citing manipulation concerns

Bonnie Prince Billy - You Will Miss Me When I Burn

Palace Brothers - (Thou Without) Partner

Guided by Voices - I am a Scientist

Lambchop - You Masculine You (live)

Finally something we might agree on - let's see him in the dock too.

What possible motive would Baroness Warsi have, for her to try to divert attention away from the Labour party's troubles? I am genuinely intrigued.

This thread is not about anti-Semitism so labour is irrelevant. Baroness Warsi is, however, a Tory peer, a former co-chairwoman of the party who has served as a minister of state. But you know better than her. If you can hear laughter at the moment, it is possible that you are hearing me laughing at you and your desperate attempt at trying to explain to a Muslim victim of racism that what she experienced isn't racism.

What is it that makes your knowledge of Tory party racism more valid that the experience of Baroness Warsi? I really would like to know how you would explain to her that she is wrong.

If they aren't racist their own senior members would not have declared that they are. I suggest that her lived experience of Tory racism is more valid than your unsubstantiated denial. However if you want to explain to her that she is wrong, you charge on

They did vote for the white person but the white person was useless. Only when the true extent of her uselessness became clear did they vote for the brown person, and only because there was no other option.

Muslim Tory peer Baroness Warsi is in no doubt that the Tories are racist. Baroness Warsi ‘vindicated’ as Tory Islamophobia report criticises PM Johnson Institutional Islamophobia at the top of the Conservative Party: MCB calls for Independent Inquiry

I agree with your outrage at the attacks on innocent Israelis, however the assertion I was referring to pre-dates that awful event.

As I said, I will be on the right side of history whereas you will be seen as an apologist for evil. You seen to be very comfortable with that mantle.

You calling me racist doesn't make it so. I will go to bed tonight, like every other night, confident in my personal integrity. I am also confident that one day your thinking will be seen to be on the wrong side of history, and that people of all races and religions will look back at the horrors of what's currently happening in Israel with aghast bewilderment that so many, seemingly, good people at best did nothing.

To be clear, can I declare my belief that the Israeli government has a long standing history of acting like an unspecified reprehensible historic government without fear of being called out for it?

What others define it as doesn't take away from my point. Except in this case, apparently - if it walks like a duck and squawks like duck, just don't call it out or you will be demonized. For the record, Jew, Muslim, Christian or jedi, I couldn't care less what sky fairy you believe in. If you are a decent person then I have no truck with you. If you behave like a despot then I will call it as I see it.

To equate Israel with Nazi Germany is considered by some to be a trait of an antisemite. What does it imply of those who do the same about British people?

With the normalisation of hard right politics and the acceptance of racists such as Farage, Lee Anderson etc as 'credible' political voices by the media, plus, of course, the fact that the ruling party has been found to be institutionally Islamaphobic, is there any surprise that the UK is riven with such hatred?

Lambchop - Gettysburg Address

Silver Jews - I'm Getting Back Into Getting Into You

William Onyeabor - Fantastic Man

Further teeth baring from Putin?